A report of performance dramatically improving for advanced weather when 3d 
clouds are switched off in the rendering menu (you still get to see 3d clouds) 

http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=16630&start=30#p189983

I've played around with this, and I can't reproduce any significant framerate 
difference. It is true that the cloud effect file doesn't condition on the 3d 
cloud switch at all, so Advanced Weather generates 3d clouds no matter what you 
select here (it can't do 2d clouds at all) - which may be a little confusing, 
but I have no good idea how to handle this gracefully. Maybe the switch should 
go away from rendering to the Basic Weather GUI? But that's a side issue.

I have no idea where any performance increase might be coming from though - as 
far as I know, the shaders are completely unaware of this. Can anyone reproduce 
the finding? Stuart, any idea where this could come from?

* Thorsten
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