IMO, they have been doing something about frame rates. They've been throttling AH's eye candy, imo, for a year to keep fps manageable for folks with low PII's. and in this day of the 1gh plus cpu's.
This sim is going to grow and we've got to also with out hardware. We can't expect to keep milking these PII 266/333's with Voodoo II cards while the same time hold AH from leaping forward.
Start the pattern; memory, CPU, vid card, mother board, cooling fan, overclock; repeat- faster memory, faster cpu, honkin vid card, better mother board.........
-Westy