Hi all,sometime in the future I'd like to upgrade my vid card, currently aGF4200 64mb. Very decent card, as a matter of fact I am quite happy with it.Now, very often in FS2004 I witness the "texture loading effect": Stutters, sometimes longer than a few seconds, where textures are being re-loaded, even constantly when I pan around my aircraft in a heavily textured environment such as the freeware KBOS scenery for FS2004.My question is: Does it help to increase vid mem on the card, so that loading textures into memory does not occur that often, or is FS2004 coded in a way that it is more dependent on the processor/ram part?Thanks for hints,celticmatrix

FS is set up so that it's more CPU dependent. More video memory is a good thing too. Your video card is basically a miniturized computer. The more memory it has, the faster it can load textures. It is also more capable of processing more complex images with more ram.I have DirectX set up(using Riva Tuner)to use the 128mb of video memory along with 100mb of system memory of texture processing. The default is 64mb system memory for this task.