Yes, highly recommended! I reduced the effects textures to 256 and the aircraft textures to 1024 px. And for those thinking this might be too small: unless you are the type of simmer that taxies along busy international hubs for hours admiring the wealth of nice and crisp liveries, you won’t notice any blurryness on the AI planes. You have to be nearer than say 100 m to see slightly unsharp textures. And this doesn’t happen at 99.5 % of the time.
Reducing the VRAM usage by the AI planes by 90% definately is worth it.
You will find the TextureOptimizer and a detailed description here: https://izn-flightsim.s3.amazonaws.com/textureoptimizer.html
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