thanks for all the replies guys. i've got the latest nvidia drivers, specifically the evga driver for my gtx 480.
i enabled opengl, but still had the same effect. maybe it's just the nose cannon that is firing the strange colored tracers.
again, i'm not a military historian and i'm not knocking the game. i love it! i love a good challenge and this is definitely a big one. the first flight sim game i ever played was "Secret Weapons of the Lufwaffe" waaaaay back in like late eighties early nineties. i was like 6 years old playing that game lol, that, and the original sid meier's civilization and sid meier's railroad tycoon. man those were the glory days of gaming.
but i got off course. perhaps i'm just mistaken and the tracers are correct. i know i'm new so try to take it easy on me.
anyway, thanks for all the replies guys. and for the guy asking for a screenie, i haven't quite figured out that yet and i don't use fraps. i'm a pretty busy man so what little down time i have i have i spend with my 3 year old who was born while i was in iraq, my wife, and maybe a couple of ours in the cockpit if i'm lucky.
thanks guys
