This solved the problems I had.
I brutally reduced all the crpg textures to 25% in height and width. Effectively making the 16 times smaller.
I feel I got a more stable game and performance boost as well. The in-game looks of things are still more or less the same, as I always played on the smallest texture setting in dx7.
I noticed that some textures were absurdly huge as well. 4000x4000 anyone? Could this be a culprit to performance degradation for some players?
In any case, try it out on your own risk!
1. Backup your textures folder: modules/crpg/textures
2. unzip:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/486399/Textures.zip 3. replace the crpg textures folder.
Beware, even Kajas loading screens are 1/4th the size! haven't bothered to replace them, but you can take original sizes from your backup if you wish.
Let me know in this thread how it works for you.