Lucky you. I drop from about 60 to around 12-13.
Can you do an experiment?
If you go into AH "choose terrain", choose the germanyw terrain, and download it.
Then take this cloud file:
http://electraforge.com/brooke/flightsims/ahScenarioGuild/cloudDesigns/med15klight5k.awaStore it in this folder:
C:\Hitech Creations\Aces High III\chconfig\germanyw
Go into AH, choose terrain of germanyw, and go into offline practice.
Check frame rate of flying around with no clouds.
Now, open text radio buffer and type in:
.ulweath med15klight5k.awa
.sweath med15klight5k
Check frame rate of flying around with clouds.
Can you let me know the two frame rates (with clouds and without clouds) as well as graphics card model, and what AH graphics detail you have set, especially the "Environment Map" slider -- is that slider at "none"?