The use of 2048x2048 main textures provides a better looking aircraft, especially the big ones, like the three or four engines bombers. Also single engine fighters can have benefits from such textures. The problems arise with less powerful computers or with very crowded flights or missions. In these cases the use of "hi-resolution" textures can drop the frame rate to it's knees. It's also known that in a few rare cases a certain combination of mainboard-videocard won't accept this kind of texture.
So we tuned a very small program that, with the simple press of a button, and without moving around hundreds of files, performs the job.
This way, you can decide to have the hi-res textures to enjoy a solo flight or a quick combat, and low resolution textures to be more agile when playing multiplayer or big missions.
Please note the difference in the two images on the left .

The program we are using is resol.exe and is located in the Aircraft folder (please do not move). Just launch it and you will asked to choose which kind of textures you would like.
Please remember that to see the 2048 textures you will need to, properly, configure your MAW install.
You can find some suggestions for a good setup HERE.