Fraser Fir Clusters; curse them all!

I have written about my forest areas performance problems by nighttime a couple of times. I've cut the forest into 7 smaller areas. I have removed all possible placeables and cut them out with the walkmesh cutter triggers. Then I've cursed, tried change the length of the night and cursed again. I've reduced the amount of threes to 40 per area. No luck! The games stutters at nighttime. I have even increased the memory in my computer to 3GB.

In a hysterical, wild and uncontrolled notion I did a batch replacement of all "FraserFirC" (they are nice an volumious) with a mix of "WestRedCedar (X1)" and "Scotch Pine - Cluster". To my surprice everything runs as smooth as anyone would ask for. The forest get a whole different mood to it but I'm not the one to complain. My wife says it look better. The sad thing is that it's 6 forest areas left to do it in. Lots of recoloring and adjusting textures for. But I'm a happy guy today! :)

Note: I should have suspected those fraser firs as I found out that the can be insanely performance craving when trying to help Wyrin with a strange crash in his DA2-module.

Thanks for reading, as always!
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