F1 2011 Question about reducing the requirements

F1 2011 The Game (Codemasters)
the answer to why would be to improve performance and to remove "unnecessary" scenery in favor of being able to make "necessary" textures look better/perform better.

for instance running car reflections on medium so that the mclarens look ok (try setting that to low and looking at one of them, they're hideous on low) but disabling mirrors.

I tried to do this myself but the tweaks I made didn't help anything/change anything. also setting the hardware_settings_config.xml to read only after I edited forced the game to crash.
 
turn shadows to low or off - big FPS gain here.
reduce the resolution as far as you can still play with - another big FPS gain
turn trees to ultra low
turn crowds off
turn cloth off
turn drivers to low (or off)

But as far as removing trees or buildings I do not think that is possible.
 

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