Impact of Trees and Ground Clutter on Frame Rates

I have my trees and ground clutter turned all the way down in the hope that it can save me a few frames from getting lost. I'm curious to know what real impact trees and ground clutter have on performance in VR. How much do those features mean in terms of VR frame rates?

I have trees set to just avoid "popping up" unrealistically (about 65%) . I also have flat terrain shadows enabled . I have grass/ground clutter maxed , primarily for the Huey , which i fly in addition to the Hornet and Albatross . While i have two other maps , i only fly in the Caucasus .

My impression is that clutter/grass has very little practical effect on frames , prolly due to only being visible at less than 100 feet , which limits view distance , the slow speed of the Huey , and airports killing frames in the Hornet anyway .

Surely the trees and their associated shadows do have a significant impact , but i can't live without them , or civil traffic , or water high , or MSSA . I have no problems maintaining 45 fps with all of these enabled flying solo ground-attack missions .

Unlike most graphical settings, these can be adjusted live in game, so you can try for yourself and see how the framerate changes. iirc, ground clutter has negligible effect, while trees difference can be significant especially past 80%. I really hate tree popping, so I use medium visibility with 100% trees.

I will do some live testing - thanks for the guidance, folks!

I leave both maxed out and no issues on my rig...:thumbup:

I will do some live testing - thanks for the guidance, folks!

Even with settings from identical systems testing is also going to be required but that said, trees... I mean, some difference at the margin, so turn down to acceptable level. But with VR, its always pd and msaa that are the huge factors in render times, with shadows often playing sacrificial role in favor of aliasing.