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FS9 support => Chicago O'Hare for FS9 => Topic started by: Flyingnut on March 16, 2008, 04:41:52 pm

Title: Flashing Textures
Post by: Flyingnut on March 16, 2008, 04:41:52 pm

While trying the trial version, I experienced some flashing textures.  I was flying around low level in the default Cessna evaluating framerates.  They are shown in the lower right of the attached screen shot.  The apron area was changing to a whiter color.

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Title: Re: Flashing Textures
Post by: virtuali on March 16, 2008, 04:52:12 pm

We don't see it here.

Are you sure you are not using another scenery for the area ? The Simflyers KORD, for example, has to be manually disabled because, even if it stays on a lower level, it's able to create issues with our KORD.

Title: Re: Flashing Textures
Post by: Flyingnut on March 16, 2008, 04:57:37 pm

I have the simFlyer scenery installed but it is disabled.  Does it need to be deleted from the scenery library listing?

Marty

Title: Re: Flashing Textures
Post by: Alessandro on March 16, 2008, 05:11:36 pm

Quote from: beckerm13 on March 16, 2008, 04:57:37 pm

I have the simFlyer scenery installed but it is disabled.  Does it need to be deleted from the scenery library listing?

Marty

Your problem is caused from a flatten of 3rd party, please check your scenery library, or a entry on scenery.cfg with flatten code on Chicago area .

Title: Re: Flashing Textures
Post by: Flyingnut on March 16, 2008, 05:21:05 pm

OK, this is what I found:

[Area.078]
Title=World Airports 2 - Chicago O Hare Intl. (KORD)
Layer=76
Active=FALSE
Required=FALSE
Local=scenery\WorldAirports2\KORD
Remote=
Flatten.0=668,N42 00.50,W87 56.42,N42 00.50,W87 52.25,N41 56.86,W87 52.25,N41 56.86,W87 56.52

Even with the Active flag equal to False, is the Flatten entry still active? 

Marty

Title: Re: Flashing Textures
Post by: Flyingnut on March 16, 2008, 05:51:47 pm

I have now completely removed the Simflyers KORD scenery and still get the flashing.  As an added note, I do not have the FlyTampa KMDW scenery installed.

Marty

Title: Re: Flashing Textures
Post by: virtuali on March 16, 2008, 05:57:01 pm

Them it might be another AFCAD, not coming from our scenery, that doesn't have the correct altitude (even a very small difference might create the issue).

You can use AFCAD program to find how many AFCAD are installed for KORD, and were are located.

Title: Re: Flashing Textures
Post by: Flyingnut on March 16, 2008, 06:00:30 pm

I just used the Scan AFD program and found no duplicates for KORD.  This was done with the settings of " All scenery addon directories" and "Include disabled sceneries."

Marty

Another screen shot added...

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Title: Re: Flashing Textures
Post by: _Dre_ on March 17, 2008, 01:44:57 am

Hey beckerm13 have you tried going to another airport to see if the "flashing" is there too. Videocards (especially Nvidea) do cause that at random times in Flight simulator.

Title: Re: Flashing Textures
Post by: Flyingnut on March 17, 2008, 01:49:39 am

I'll give that a try, although I have an ATI x800 card.

Marty

Title: Re: Flashing Textures
Post by: M-Sauce on March 17, 2008, 06:53:02 am

Your screeshott reminds me of a problem I had with FlyTampa's KBOS.

It occurs only when close to the ground, and it seems to be a bleedthrough of the ground below in a "bow-wave" format in front of the aircraft. That problem was caused by interference with an Add-on package of the city of New York. When I disabled that package, the bleedthrough at KBOS went away. There didn't seem to be a fix for it so that both sceneries where displayed at once.

Anyway, I have KMDW from FT installed and active, and I have KMSP from Imagine Sim also installed and active. I am not getting the same problem in KORD, so you can rule out those two as interference. I also have FSG mesh installed. One note; if you do have KMDW installed, make sure that the "KORD tweek" file is removed. If you don't know what I mean, refer to the FlyTampa instructions for KMDW.

Hope that helps.

Mariano

Title: Re: Flashing Textures
Post by: Flyingnut on March 18, 2008, 02:28:15 am

Mariano:

Thanks for the tips.  I do not have FT KMDW installed, not do I have Imagine Sim KMSP.

Marty