Lost power for a week due to a storm that hit us.
So I can run MV/MZ3d 6.82 perfectly fine with no frame drop on this lap top. I play tons of steam games on this that are much bigger. Roughly around version 8+ MV/MZ3d became unusable. I was on discord and did a search for this and endless people claimed the same. Is there any features you're using from the new versions?
Glad to hear you have power back for the Christmas!
This uses MZ3D 8.2.2 and I think the dynamic lighting combined with the day/night cycle is the reason for bad performance. For me adding the dynamic lighting caused a huge performance drop and stuttering.
I've been trying to optimize it (recently today by spending 5 hours tweaking and testing it), but it's a tricky one. Without dynamic lighting I get huge improvement in frame rate.
I hope I will find a way to optimize better, but so far I haven't been very lucky. I have even considered replacing it with basic lighting. We'll just have to wait and see can I get it to work properly.
But I will continue working on it after holidays.
I would be interested to test your mouse plugin and see if it would improve the performance.
Merry Christmas!