i know this has been asked alot but it is still unclear for me.  when i am flying around and i hit my views from whatever side of the plane i get a quick view of an area of the scenery taken out in a chunk and then it appears.  i am assuming that this is because of my settings and my computer... 933 mhz 256 ram nividia geoforce 2 mx.  im not near my home computer where i can access the game to see what the settings are right now but i was messing with it and i am still trying to get rid of all the flickering (kinda like a choppy movement at times).  any help to make this run more smoothly with godd scenery would be appreciated.  i'm trying not to upgrade my computer at this time.  thanks in advance.

p.s. my mommy says i'm special... lol

any idea as to what video card to buy and the cost for both upgrades? ???  thanks for the quick response...

for a gfx card your best buys would be a Geforce FX or the Radeon equivilent. lol.
for some DDR RAM it would be about £30 for another 256. or about £60 for a new 512mb of DDR RAM.
you will need to check on what RAM your motherboard can take though.

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Is the flickering affect created by a poor frame rate
That is one of the main reasons try pressing shift z a couple of time till it shows your frame rates. The higher the number the better FS looks.
When you first installed fs it tries to set the sliders and resolution to what it feels will work with your system.But that is only a guess and you have to fine tune it. What I would suggest is to use the default grand caravan then go to some small air port with clear skies then check out your frame rates this number will most likely be the best that you can expect under your current settings. Then change aircraft to the default B747-400 go to KATL max out the weather, then recheck out your frame rates again this will be the worst or the slowest you would get with your current settings. If this number is really low then you need to make some changes.
I recently bought a FX5200 128 meg DDR AGP and only paid $99.00 for it.
If your system does not have a AGP slot you can use a PCI slot but it is not the same thing. You might want to consider upgrading to a system that has a AGP slot.
There are a lot of systems that come with the FX5200 card.
It depends on how much money you can afford to spend 3d cards can run 2 and 300 dollars
But the end result is amazing 8) 

after some research i found that my power source for my computer might not be able to handle a high performance card in the 128 mb range.  i was told that it can also run perfectly... now i'm really confused... lol.  the reps at dell say the ati radeon 5200 agp 128 mb card will work but now i have this other opinion of potential problems.  would a 64 mb video card with 512 ram be adequate to run this game without the flickering?  any input would be apprciated...