Scenery Cfg Affects FS9 Performance

Hi All,I just read an excellent review of Ultimate Terrain USA by Andrew Herd. I always enjoy reading and respect his reviews of various products. One of his suggestions in his latest review was to place UT USA just below the Default Terrain in your Scenery.cfg. Mine was near the top and above MegaScenery's PNW (around Area/Layer 12). Before changing the config as he suggested, I was always able to start up at KSEA in less than 2 minutes (closer to a minute is more accurate). Moving UT USA down to just above the Default Terrain (around Area/Layer 121 on my system) as Andrew suggested, caused the loading of KSEA and PNW to suddenly take a little over 5 minutes to start up (it seemed like 10 minutes!). When it finally did and I took off in my aircraft, the Seattle area scenery was extremely blurry and it took a long time for it to start to become clear. I lost 5-10 FPS too. My Seattle PNW scenery was a little blurry before but it always became very clear in a matter of seconds, not minutes. So I think (IMHO) the order of Areas/Layers in your scenery config is extremely important especially if you're suffering from blurry scenery, low FPS, and a long startup. I thought I would bring this to everyone's attention since many in this forum suffer similar problems (blurry texture, low FPS, long startups) and this may be part of a solution.Ciao,Jim System is a Dell Gen 3 System (3.6 GHz) w/1Gig of DDR RAM, ATI X800XT PCIe video card with 256MB of memory.