well . i have an athon xp 2.5....512RAM....and a geforce fx 5200  think that is enough to handle cfs 3 since till now i couldnt play it ...but at my old 1.5 256 geforce 2 400mx cfs3 was running slow but it was running ....in the new machine all i can see is a blue floor and a white plane ...the pilot is blue 2 in a diferent matiz of colour ...RRR,,,what to do??? ..is it a machine ...card... or mem stick problem ..did anyone had the same problem ???...ohh by the way run win xp and i have cfs2   too instaled ...any help will be veeeeeery welllllcommmee...i'm satarting to think this is a bad msoft joke ...

rgr that running dirx9.0b  and 44.03 driver from nvidia ....just install the vb6 files now see if improove somthing.....any idea what to do about ...i know theres a 44.67 or something from nvidia but i didnt found it nowhere....still RRRRRR...angry... i spend some money here just to play this ....i see the game  running the problem is with the grafics that are messed ...i see all in white and blue..and just the shapes not the textures ....the p 47 looks like the invisible wonder woman plane  ....lol....all the rest are blue floor hangar pilot ..barrels ...etc..the textures and colours are real messed..

rgr that   i have the sp1   i was at win 2 k till last week just put the xp in the machine ...and made all the upgrades .....and i mean ALL........will try to uninstall it ...

You can also try upping the detail sliders in CFS3. If they are too low you can get those strange solid colors. But keep the clouds low at 2, 3 or 4.

Just an idea.

Good luck.