Just another setting on the FS9.cfg file that made a big difference on my system.Find this setting in your FS9.cfg file and set it as shown...--- TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=20 ---

Hi Dillon,The default setting for this line in the FS9.cfg is 40. Many folks increase it (some markedly) to make the views load quicker. Going too high with it (>400) will increase stuttering.The TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULTI setting is really a system (and user) dependant setting. Each user should arrive at a value that works best for them and their computer.Cheers,Greg

Thanks for the tip...I'll give it a try.

It depends not only on what system you have, but what type of plane you are flying. On my roomates system that I have built and tweaked, 30 works great for props, while 40-60 works best for high quality jets like pmdgs 737. 20-30 works best for default aircraft. this is a 3.2 p4 1gb ram, fx5950 ultra, 66.31 guru3d beta drivers and 100% traffic 8x AA 8x AF and it still is slow in most areas, only flying at altitude does it really fly smooth, no matter what settings I try. Anything over 60 setting on a clear vis day gets me nothing but stutters, hopefully (but probably not) fixed with the patch.

I haven't noticed or wasn't too concerned about framerates with aircraft. I was more concerned with performance with scenery in general. Using the setting I mentioned above, most all Simflyer's scenery performs much better than before. KIAD and KIAH are a little slow but other than that I don't have the framerate problems with add-on scenery the way I used to. Everything in general is better in FS2k4 with you lower the texture bandwidth. I couldn't see raising the number to +60... :-hmmm

Thanks...but mentioned in the past in the "MS TIPS and TWEAKS" section.