I think there is nothing you can do... Your game becomes slower, because the bitmaps you can see (i guess you made bright=on) are bigger, so the engine must render "more" on this particle effect...

I hope you understand what I say - oh, and I hope im not too wrong

Perhaps this post will get me points for originality at least.

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