Thanks for the reply.

Yes, my card supports OpenGL. Before I installed the driver I got less than 1 FPS. I know nothing about coding to the OpenGL interfaces, but it seems that the processor is out-running the video. 30 FPS should be plenty for full motion video (it's certainly enough for video cameras, cinema, and TV) but if the processor is throwing graphic orders at it too fast something has to be ignored. It seems that AFP is a fairly traditional application that just runs as fast as it can, instead of handling 30 iterations per second then leaving the processor idle for the rest of the time. Is there any type of config option to control this? I've turned off clouds, trees, the tracking window, and the data window showing speed etc. I've tried 640x480 and other resolutions, and find that 1024 x 768 gives the same results. When simply starting the program, some of the background isn't even rendered properly, so I suspect that on completion of every simulation cycle the graphic stream is being passed to the video again and it just can't keep up. (Pure speculation ... I'd appreciate comments from a developer of AFP or someone who has coded to OpenGL.)

I agree that the card is a dinosaur! It's what came with the laptop. I guess I need to see if I can get something better. Does anyone have any REAL experience with cards other than SuperSavage IXC in an IBM Thinkpad T23?

Downloads -- as I mentioned, the 1.6.8.6 download is terrible, at least at with 16 bit color. Without the patch, I tried switching to 256 colors (8 bit) but AFP wouldn't even start up. It requires 16 bit color. Have you actually tried this?