I notice that you don't get any clouds unless you enable atmospheric shaders (which kills my fps and makes my expensive RAC skins look like poo poo

Am I doing something wrong? Is this my bleak future in SL? A choice between the rather (to my taste) harshly lighted world and a world with no sky?
Could be a deal breaker for me. I enjoy SL, but not enough to put a grand+ into a system just to run it at decent settings.