Raising an old issue, again, and will continue to do so

[addman]

Originally Posted by Chivas

They probably wanted the sim to look worse so nobody else would buy it, or had to turn down effects so the sim was playable atleast until the sim was further optimized, and average comuters more powerful.

I'm not a game developer but I'm pretty sure that the weathering of the planes have barely any performance impact on the game at all, then they would have had to remove the slider altogether now wouldn't they?

P.S There are games out there today with object textures light-years ahead of CloD's and they run fine on even lesser hardware.