Hi, like many others I had teething probs with fs2k (Pent III, 450MHz, 224Mb RAM, rage fury graphics card). After dowmnloading and installing ALL updates avbl (Direct X 8.0, FS2K patch 2, graphics card, sound card etc etc), things have settled down just fine. I'd like to echo the help avbl at
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