> Rob most users do not report any performance changes from 128 to 256 on
the
> video card. It would seem to follow that 512 would not help with FS9
> either. You may want to check a couple of your FS9 settings as 5FPS seems
> quite low for your system. Mine runs 3-4 times faster using 1 meg of 400
> Mhz memory on a 333 Motherboard with an AMD 2500 Barton and an ATI 9600 XT
> card. Sounds like you may have a bottleneck.

For small texture programs - big VRAM will mean little or nothing. For a Big
Texture program like FS2004 - big VRAM will mean a lot. VRAM is used to
store textures. The more textures near(and therefore easily accesible to the
VPU) - the more performance. FS2004 will like a lot of VRAM especially when
set to use big textures.

jkb