Special effect are special, like smoke and sparks, fire(?) , maybe even the amount of detail in bodywork that got crashed off.
Soft Particles, improves rain gfx, the shimmery stuff when sunlight hits through a cloud of dust. what else?
Movies are either the replay or perhaps a movie included in a mod, good question actually since we already shut off replays elsewhere.
don't understand wind/crowd either. crowd never moves, only stewards, and they move anyways. wind same thing, trees don't catch it, the banana-man moves anyways....
I just turn that off to avoid raindrops on my shiny helmet.