Hi ED and the rest!
I'm a student at Lunds University in Sweden. Last week we had a lecture from a professor that studies computer graphics (computers, mobilephones etc etc).
Since LO and maybe future DCS (will) require alot of power to render the game, his group "The swiftfoot" has come up with a new algorithm that renders the game better with less power from the CPU.
Here's the webbsite http://www.swiftfootgraphics.com/
and the their studies: http://graphics.cs.lth.se/research/papers/2007/pcu/pcu.pdf
Could be something for the DCS engine in the future?