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I managed to figure this out, and I will post an answer if this ever helps anyone. FS9 being an older game and reading more and more posts from 2005 when hardware was progressing and the game was staying the same, a thought came to mind to try, dumb down all the Catalyst Control Center settings to the most basic, and see, because even on a Crossfire R9 set up, FS9 can't take advantage of that, so I did the reverse, everything is on it's most basic setting, the same looks great, Anti-Aliasing isn't an issue, and the frame rates are steady at 50 even with 3D clouds. I don't claim that this will work with everyone, but it just worked for me.

Thanks I will try that, I know there's a lot of tips and tricks to FS9.cfg, a lot went back to 2005 and some helped some didn't, I will try that, and yeah, lesson learned, but for the price it was hard to pass up on w R9s!!

I just built a new computer and wanted to get FS9 back onto it. Set up is, AMD 8350 8-Core 4.00GHz 16GB Ram 2 R9 270x 2GB Cards in Crossfire FS9 is on a SSD I have used a FS9 Configurator, used resized tree textures, REX Clouds and texture and quite a few addons, well, a lot. Also ran the DXTFixer having searched the forums lately. In most airports I get good performance, near the 50FPS benchmark. In some like FlyTampa Dubai or FSDT LAX it runs around mid 20s. Now here's where I'm having some issues. with a layer of clouds, we'll say I use the real world weather thing in FS, it creates a layer, I get maybe 15 FPS. I know that FS9 cannot use more than 1 core, I also know it cannot use crossfire. But it blows my mind that with clouds on, even with them shurnk down to 512x512 and DXT3d the system can suffer that much. I've tried to read these forums a lot, nothing as of late has helped much so I turned to my own thread. I don't know as much as many on here about how to tweak the game around but any input would be appreciated. Thanks.

That is so obviously Posky it's not funny.