I am looking for one thing. Faster aircraft texture loads when I switch views. This is only in aircraft with VC's. 2D panels are fine. Planes like the Citation II & X, Cessna 310, Seneca V. I always seem to have this pause with the textures re-loading & it is really starting to drive me buggy. I have a P4-3.06Ghz with 1gig of ram & a Radeon 9600 256mg video card. I am running WinXP Home SP1. This seems to be the one thing that really take sthe joy out of flying for me. Just for the heck of it, I loaded up FS2002 with some of the planes mentioned & absolutly no pauses or skips in the switching views. I am really looking for help here. Thanks.

patrick,did you tried to convert the textures of those aircrafts to DXT3-Format?If not give it a try. Use a program called DXTBMP for this job. DXT3 Textures are much smaller in size without nearly any loss of quality. Most payware aircrafts use 32bit textures. ron

Ron, Sure have. Most of my planes I have gone back & converted. Thanks.Pat