Asked about this before but no response..after about 7 or 8 minutes of flying and several changes to spot plane view the ac textures and some ground textures fill in slowly..I see the outline of the ac and then the paint job fills in..takes nearly a second..system is AMD900 with 512 megs ram and Geforce 3 64mb video card. I've changed every setting I can in the sim and a good many in setup. Any suggestions anyone? JamesJ

I seem to have solved this by opening AGP aperture to max (128) and enabling AGP texturing in dxdiag, just the opposite of what is recommended in another thread..go figure..JamesJ