Been there, done that.
Only thing that improves is getting not up to 50% reductions in FR in certain situations - but at a price of removing all "advanced" settings. Not exactly what I had expected when I upgraded to a 9600GT. But even then stutter is the same issue, and of course the %&$ (

) reloading times. When I run AH at visual settings roughly comparable to old version, FR is gettin jumpy especially around fights near airfields/and or coastlines.