John,

When I fly in bad WX with the C-130, as an unofficial part of my "descent" checklist, I bring my scenery detail sliders down low. Since I don't care if a hangar door is open or closed or a tree is in the right place, my goal is to fly a good approach so I want all available framerates. If I want to, once I clear the runway, I turn the sliders back up to what they were.

It should give you some framerates back. For me it's the price I pay to fly the C-130.  I'd suggest going to AVSIM forums to see how you can tweak your FS9 setup.

HTH,

Jim Donlin

Intel P4 3gHz dual core/2GB ram/NVidia GeF7800GT/FS9