Sven is right, the smoke of tracers is overdone. It hides the target even in 109, I had to change belting to avoid that.

The major culprit of the smoke obscuring view is the cannons. You can not change the loadout in anyway to reduce smoke. I have no tracers in my cannon loadout as every round is a tracer and smokes too much.

Yes, I agree my drop in framerate is and should be attributed to my older laptop. I am unaware of any possibility to "upgrade" my GPU. I also am told by Cyberpower, Clevo, and Corsair that I can't upgrade my RAM.:confused:

The complete obscuring of a target due to essentially firing smoke grenades is a game problem. The smoke needs to be turn down, dissipate faster, or no spread so much in order to not impact pilot visibility.

Yes and that is a narrow stream of smoke, so lightly colored, that it neither impacts the pilots vision nor obsures the target when firing. It is so lightly colored that even just a slight change of angle the smoke dissappears with the change of background.

Currently the smoke is too strong an affect. I am already on medium settings and get mid 30's fps. If drop effects to low and I won't see round impact enemy aircraft or bomb explosions etc.

Don't use the gunsight zoomed view.

Aim and zoom out before pressing the trigger.

I think the smoke is made for taht a,d it's just fine.

Chaps, this is not IL2 ! New game, new standards, new habits... and a lot of enjoyment ! (ok ok btw two L.exe crahes ;) )

Pls note also on the vid above how well done are the the mini fire (incendiaries) in the game