put an option to play without lighting effects among others, I tested it on my notebook and the game seemed horribly poorly optimized, to a point where I had to modify the game to manually remove it in the code
This is the first time I hear of this.
Could you kindly explain why this is necessary? I understand that the game is poorly optimized, but did it tax your computer so much that it was unplayable? What kind of specs do you have and what happened exactly? I'm trying to understand what caused this to be a problem.