Is there a way to turn off weather effects?

[Rhedrimond]

My wife is running PSO2 on a low-end laptop with an integrated Intel Graphics HD. While on low settings, she gets around 30-40 FPS and the game is entirely playable-- except when weather effects start showing up.

After about a minute or so, rain, fog, and sandstorms will cause her graphics drivers to crash and the game to close out. While we intend to build her a new PC within the next week or so, is there any way to toggle off the weather effects in the game? I think this would solve her issue.

Thanks in advance!

[Clessy]

Doesnt turning the shaders off pretty much make the weather effects none excistant?

[Rhedrimond]

It does for the most part (she pretty much just told me her screen gets lighter/darker during the sandstorm, for example). Since it was just the presence of the weather effects that seem to crash her, I was hoping there'd be some way to disable what it was triggering entirely. I had noticed in another thread that there was a way to turn off motion blur, so I guess we'll toggle off all of those settings to see if it helps.