- a/c landing lights that actually light up some of the ground

Then what do you call the picture bellow? The landing lights have iluminated a great portion of the sorrounding area...again....check your FS configuration.

My system specs?

ATI RAdeon 9700 PRO with CATALYST 3.7 drivers
Windows XP Home with out that dreaded SP1 patch which causes ole errors..yeah anyways...
Pentium 4 2.80ghz and
1 Gigabyte of RAMBUS memory PC800
oh yeah and the mobo is the AsusTek P4T533-C