Had to do some adaptation. I initially got a dialog box saying, "Failed to load snowflake Meshes\BM_snow_01.nif" whenever I tried, and the load ceased. Apparently, he saved his ini file before Tribunal/Bloodmoon, so weather effects added there weren't listed. I added those in. These are my results, inside Balmora:

Mine, no FPS program: Inside, 32 FPS. Outside, 8-10 FPS (50% distance)

His, no FPS program: Inside, 32 FPS. Outside, 8-15 FPS (50% distance)

Small, but something. The FPS program, with some tweaking, gives me a serviceable 15-25 FPS in Balmora, but at 0% distance, which I loathe. Every city then looks like Seattle. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> Setting the distance to 0% oddly enough did very little to improve matters without the FPS program. I've already got shadows turned off, and music turned down. Not sure where to go from here. A 1.3 GB Athalon, 256 MB RAM, a decent (Radeon 9600) card--it *should* give me a reasonable speed with or without all those mods, which don't affect framerate as much as they do area loading.