Yup, I was trying to apply the fog reduction from the mods section and somehow broke my install. I was using Modman and also looking at the graphics.cfg file. Instead of moving the ETL.fsc to another folder, I hid it in 2 folders in the same scenes folder where it lives. I am not sure my modman is still working properly. I tried adjusting the tree density there too. I was launching lomac through modman it it didnt' seem to help. The first time I tried it, I still had the graphics file open and I wonder if that might have been the problem. Maybe I should just reinstall? What a PITA.
Thanks.
Oh yeah, the menus load fine it's just the sim window hangs when starting to render. I just see my desktop, black window frame and flashing icons on my desktop.