Hello Mate
I have to admit, I like the ND MD902 but.. these bloody textures drag my system to a halt. Last night, I flew it from Wolverhampton to Brum at dusk.. a time I rarely see in FS. I wanted to see the night textures for one. It flew ok.. no problems at all. I landed at Brum on the other side of the airport (old terminal parking) and watched one of my 2 installed traffic files working.. a Flybe Dash8 landing. While there, I decided to change the nav lights for 'no light' Shockwave Redux versions.. without closing the sim.. so went to change the aircraft and only half of them came up in 'Select Aircraft'.. a surefire sign my memory was low. I closed down FSCommander to try and get a bit more memory back and this appeared to work. Went to select aircraft again and chose G-HEMS while I fiddled with the aircraft.cfg of WMID. Changed the lights.. went back to have a look and again.. only half the aircraft were showing in select aircraft. I got to see the new lights (didn't like the full red glow on one side and full green glow on t'other but FSX shutdown shortly after telling me I'd run out of memory. Had this happen a few times recently. Looks like I dare not add anything else
I may try and make 1024 maps for the 902 to see if this helps.
Understand your feelings about leaving. When I handed my ID card in at Pompey in '89.. it felt kinda surreal. I didn't know anyone in HMS Nelson so it was a bit different for me but still very odd to be handing it over.. my ID card and my gas mask.. the two things the mob wanted back. Leaving the pub game was a bit different.. we had to leave before it dragged us further into debt. I had no regrets when I started up the Luton and drove out of the car park for the last time knowing I'd never be going back there again. Now, some 10 months on.. 6 months were wasted waiting for the bus job to come to fruition.. this lasted a week as I hated driving the bloody things.. then I picked up a casual job with the RM at Wolverhampton which ended on Friday.. and I'm back on the job trail again. Two applications in at the mo.. one for a toll assistant position on the M6 toll and the other, for a postie job at Walsall. I've had the girls (Alison and Helen) looking out for driving jobs at Tesco and Asda but Asda only have 3 delivery trucks so it's dead mans shoes and Tesco don't have anything going. You'll be ok with Ocado. I'm sure the pay isn't exactly cutting edge but it's a job and that's what you need
My cousins hubby was the head honcho Police driving instructor up at Leicester but his situation was similar to yours and he ended up leaving. Shortly after, the job was made 'civvie' so he applied for and got his old job back.. of sorts. They still don't know what they're doing. There may be 4 areas merged with 2 overall bosses and he may be one of those bosses. There may be 4 areas merged and he may end up in charge of all 4, alternatively, he may end up in charge of 2. This has been going on for 6months now and I still don't think he's any the wiser
What a palarva hey.. bureaucracy gone mad once more
Good luck to ya anyway mate
EDIT: I've pulled the 5 main maps down from 4 x 2048 and 1 x 1024 to 4 x 1024 and 1 x 512..
To be brutally honest, I can't see the bloody difference.. not for every day use anyway. The bonus is, each of the 2048 maps were chugging along at 4mb each and they're now at 1mb each as 1024
ATB
DaveB
but this time I spent ages installing the trees etc from around the net, it looks pretty good. It loads a bit quicker but the new CPU no doubt helps 
