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No offense, MD, but without knowing exactly what your graphics hardware is, "5 FPS lost" means exactly nothing.

To illustrate, if your hardware can render FSO at a framerate of 120 fps, losing 5 fps will not be really noticeable, as that represents only a 4.16% decreasin framerate. If, on the other hand, your hardware is struggling to maintain 30 FPS, then losing 5 FPS represents quite noticeable drop (by 16.67%, to be exact).