Incredible game slowdown since recent patch

[Alamo90]

Ever since I installed the most recent update my system has been having tons of trouble running certain maps. It mostly happens at tempest peak, the later floors of dreadfell, and during the thunderstorm event. The game just slows down to a crawl. Everything else seems to run fine, and there were no issues before the most recent patch. Wondering if anyone else has this problem.

[tiger_eye]

Some levels can have multiple minor events that have rather intense particles effects. If you have an older gfx card (like me), then these particles effects may be causing the slowdown (they were for me, and made some levels nearly unplayably slow). This has been addressed in the next beta (b43). The following addon fixes this issue for b42 (the current release):

http://te4.org/games/addons/tome/reduce ... -particles