@David OC I have very simmilar settings. I lowered only Terrain Textures and shadows to low. Playing with 1.5 PD or 1.2 PD with MSAA. Anisotropic set to 4x, cocpit res 1024 and terrain shadows off.
In medium mission like 14 aircrafts and carrier on Persian Gulf I am getting 25 fps on carrier deck when looking at other F18, 45 fps in the sky.
@DEMON_ Yeah delid and oc to 5.0 would be a lot cheaper... I will consider it, thanks for the advice.