You may think the title of the thread odd but here's a tale for you. You'll all be aware of my recent obsession with white autogen houses and the sizes of trees in FSX.. I know what you're thinking and I've thought it myself
Anyhoo.. I thought I'd pop to have a look at ES Scillies, Alderney and Guernsey as last time I went, I thought I remembered them all looking pretty realistic tree and house-wise and so it was. GUE has a few 'giants' but by and large, the trees there are much smaller and match better the size of the 'various' coloured houses. I popped to Ald and much the same so on to the Scillies.. much the same again.Back to GUE once more for another goof driving that Huey I posted on one of Ian's threads and I suddenly wondered if there was anything I could do to sharpen things up a bit closer in. My scenery settings are pretty much default I think.. especially Mesh Res, Texture Res, Mesh Complexity, Level of Detail Radius and water. Global texture size I put to max in the RH side of the pane and nothing much happened so I thought I'd try and increase the Texture resolution from it's default 2m to 60cm. Bless my cotton socks
GUE tightened up like a good un making 'low and slow' much more rewarding and there was a slight increase in performance. I say slight because GUE really punishes my system and the odd frame here and there isn't really worth talking about. I thought I'd pop to Alderney next and I couldn't believe it. Alderney ran ok before but now, with my frames locked at 45fps.. it sit's at 44-45 all the way round the island. As a comparison, this is what I see with the default FS scenery in the back of beyond with nothing more than trees and mountains to disturb the flow. Just to make sure this wasn't a one-off.. I went to the Scillies which had been a bit of a toughie until GUE came along when it suddenly looked reasonable
Lows of 27-28 now all around the island 
Don't ask me why increasing the texture resolution has helped my performance because I honestly don't know. You'd think it would be able to process a blur faster than something pin sharp wouldn't you but this doesn't seem to be the case. So excited was I by this find (don't tell me.. you're all on 60cm or higher anyway
).. I thought I'd pass it on. So.. global texture size to 'unbelieveable' (hard right) and Texture resolution from the default 2m to 60cm. 
As I said, it didn't do much for GUE speed-wise but it now looks better and a better looking 3-legged dog-like running scenery is better than a sh1te looking 3-legged dog-like running scenery.. result. The Scillies it's helped tremendously.. looks better and runs faster and Alderney.. no comparison. Looks a treat and flies as well
ATB
DaveB
The settings from within FS are as that 'new' cfg load with the exception of the screen res and colour.. Global texture resolution (moved from high to v high) and on the scenery tab, the settings are as follows:
