Nish and MP I don't have thousand of trees, I only have about 30-40 Conifers carefully placed & sized..... I have 1G of mem....I did try "turning off" things in my task manager..but then Win crashed LOL(not really LOL)..so...off to attempt something different. The noutain is fairly up close..not in the distance so to speak. Oh well, off to make alpa planes :(