I've looked at all textures on the NG. you guys are using a lot of 32 bits BMP's, and they are huge. I used imagetools.exe and converted the bigones into dxt3 textures. Their're 1/3 the size. It sure looks the same, but you earn a lot of fps. my texture folder is now under 32 megs. Why not use dxt3 textures all over the aircraft?Jan Roar R

PMDG can correct me, but I imagine that they used the higher quality bitmaps because they are just that, higher quality bitmaps. Nothing but the highest quality for this airplane ;-)

Jan -Where did you get that program?

it was in the fs2002 PRO. in the gmax/gamepack folder.Jan Roar R

Download Customterraintextures_sdk.exe from http://zone.msn.com/flightsim/FS02DevDeskSDK00.asp and that has imagetool.exe

Fred,as Ed McMahon used to say" Sir, you are correct!"