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U-Bones Irish1958 & Carotio,

Thanks for the input, thats great information!

For those others that have suggested upgrading my video card,
unfortunantly the machine in question is a laptop and only two cards will fit the internal form factor...the Nvidia Go FX 5200 32MB and the 64MB...so its as good as it is going to get until I get a new laptop (not soon).

Gizzmoe,

The problem is, is that once the RAM gets filled on the video card, textures start getting put into main system memory and when that happens....even the most powerful engines start to choke. In my case its a double whammy...I am stuck with 64MB of RAM *and* a low end graphics core.

Thankfully, with the stock game it has chugged along quite nicely and if I can choose not to use the above mentioned enhanced elements I am hoping it remains just as playable.