Forums → Games → Gemcraft CS: Disabling Tower Shots?

Look at the options menu, there you find "force minimum visual settings"

I'm already on force minimum visual settings. But, tower shots just lag the game with their massive numbers from the higher grade gems.

What are your towers set to shoot at?

Closest to Orb, Giants, Swarmlings, Buildings, those are all ok to use.

Fliers/Spires/Orblets is one you want to avoid at all costs. It produces a ton of slowdown.

well that last one is fine.... when it's actually shooting as flying ones/spires, but if there are none on the field that it gets VERY laggy even with just a couple hundred monsters, let alone the thousands and tens of thousands that some people have... still, avoid at all costs when you have 100+ monsters on the field...

It depends on cpu mostly, even random and killing off screen I get some lag with 1k monsters/wave when hitpoints are more than 10^30.

What patch version are you playing as well? If it's earlier than 1.0.18, tower gems with more than 100 fire rate (i.e. anything useful) are stupid laggy even with one monster to shoot at.