Thanks all for responding. I found the two Garmin windows fonts and installed them, this steps should be in the manual somewhere!. This helps with the text crispness issue. I don't know what text compression setting is, any pointer to where it is? I am still new to X-plane 10 As for the low FPS, it seems to be happening at the default KORD, which does not have any building but seems to have traffic (mine was set at Chicago suburb, I guess it was really at Chicago, LOL) Anyway, I now have 30+ elsewhere. I elected to turn off HDR and use 8x AA instead that also seems to help. Btw, I keep hearing HDR is a must at night, why is that? Also I keep hearing that LR has not worked out all the performance issue with HDR yet. Is that true? The doc says don't use HDR unless your modern graphic card can handle it. Mine is a GTX680, not ultra modern, as in the latest but not too shabby either. What's give? Anyway, back to the plane: so far with the right setup it is a beauty. The MFD and the flight plan is a huge mile ahead compared to the default 430 GPS (when will they fix that? Coming from FSX, the default GPS is just horrible) Thanks Vu