Since I'm a new owner of the 707, I have found that the VC textures are sometimes slow to load at 1600 res. and even the exterior aircraft will load slowly. But, while in operation, I get an average of 20FPS while in VC and ave. 25-29 FPS with the 2D. My system is certainly not state of the art. It's just a
Athlon 2.2 GHZ, 2 G of RAM, GF 7800 AGP 256MB card, Samsung 20" widescreen with 1680 max res.