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I'm running a reasonably fast laptop: P4 2.53g, Geforce 4 graphics. I'm patched up to the gills and have done the graphics tweaks. Terrain is about 3, effects 2, clouds 1, aircraft highest at 4. I put scenery at 1 because I hate all those little autogen boxes that are supposed to be houses, and I'm in a high-flying Bomber, anyway.
On a normal campaign mission I'm getting no lower than about 26 fps.
The other night, I moved the aircraft visuals up to 5, and did a normal mission which kept me around a comfortable 21 fps.
The next mission, it was raining, and after a reasonable take-off and warp, I came out at 4 fps, which increased to 12 and back to 4 in waves. Fortunately, I got a good bomb drop, and warped home, but I had to give up on landing, because the fps wouldn't hold at 12 long enough to get lined up before the 4 fps kicked in again.

Is this normal with bad weather?
And is bad weather an "effect" - meaning I should lower the effects graphic down to 1?

Same here, whenever it rains my fps drop down to soemthing unacceptable.
You can dissable rain in the configtool.
Go to start menu - MS games - CFS3 - cfs3configtool,
select custom setting - windows - overrides and check the "dissable rain" box.

Now that tip is an absolute gem. Thank you very much.

The rain is very nice eye-candy, but my frame rate is more important.