Is there a way to make direct lighting not get rid of ambient occlusion?

Use Ambient Occlusion is set to true. I have Direct Illumination Occlusion Fraction se to 1.0 which is apparently the highest it can go, and the Indirect one set to 0.75. Ramping up the latter only darkens AO under indirect lighting of course, but changing the former to 1.0 (from the default 0.5) appears to do nothing.