When AH2 first came online, I had no problems. With the successive patches for handling textures, the stuttering has gotten increasingly worse. Now anytime I get close to a plane the screen freezes. I've uploaded the newest driver for my Nividia gforce4 mx 64, and still the freezes. I'm taking a week off. I'll try it again then and if its the same - Ill be cancelling my account. Thats not meant to be whinny or snide, but I am not going to spend 10 hours tweaking my computer everytime a new texture handling routine comes out. I'll check back from time to time and when you settle down on something I'll probably re-sub.
This just isn't fun like this, and before someone shoves a pompom in my face, I DID BETA TEST - since last November.
Ill send my dxdiag file to you.
What makes this hard to trouble shoot is, its impossible for me to make the game stutter offline. A squad mate informed me its because the stuttering is caused by loading the art of another plane. If thats the case, I really think some things need to be reevaluated. I'd bet you a buffet at the casino of your choice that you could count the number of players that play this game to ogle over other players wings, on one hand.
Edit: I take that back - it DOES freeze offline now.