Hi Starbage1,
your screenies show clearly how good the original textures look with upgraded dlls and stuff from the likes of Ankor. For example one thing I was struck by was how good some of the original effects for smoke, etc look when CFS3 is run on a modern computer with a good graphics card. The game was way ahead of its time and in some ways the use of .dds textures, etc are just coming into their own.