[Lag Caused by Writing Performance stats]

I should say that this happens on Singleplayer and on Multiplayer as well.

[Lag Caused by Writing Performance stats]

I just bought this game.  I'm getting lag.  When, the lag happens, I get the message <System> Wrote performance stats to the User folder.  This happens about every three seconds, it is unplayable.  I opened the folder and this is a 50 MB file.  I ended up with 9 GB of files in an hour of trying to play.  How can I turn off this performance stats thing?  I checked the options in game, but I didn't see an option to turn this off.  There is a settings file in the Avorion folder.  I changed sendStatistics=true to =false, but that didn't solve the problem.