Here some tweaks to improve framerate.

[Feathered_IV]

Huge improvement on a Q6600, 2gb DDR2, GTX260 low end job. Using a lower res than desktop but getting playable 35-45 over land with shadows on, low trees and medium shading. Previously I was getting 7fps. still stutters a fair bit down low, but the 8gb ddr3 that I've got on the way aught to look after that.

One thing though, I notice land textures are very blurry at altitude. Would disabling some part of the mod fix that?

[FS~Phat]

Good BE Hardware article that both describes and shows the effect of SSAO on various scenes and video cards.

I wonder why 1C thought this was a useful effect for a flight sim? Looks to me like its most suited to first person shooters.

http://www.behardware.com/news/10344...with-ssao.html

[Fuchs]

Looks to me like its most suited to first person shooters.

you aren't alone, it look like to me too....
very useful in COD

[McDaniel]

edit: findings not true