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viennaman

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Flikkering
« on: June 01, 2013, 10:15:45 pm »
Hello,

I have a very weird issue - when i use the KLAX scenery for FS 9 i have flickering in the cockpit view but absolutely NO flickering in the external view.

What is the problem here ?

tks for your help

Viennaman

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Re: Flikkering
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2013, 11:24:57 pm »
Are you using some kind of 3rd party camera add-on ? Also, be sure you use a 32 bit color mode, because in 16 bit the z-buffer precision is less, and it might cause such problems.

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Re: Flikkering
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2013, 09:32:37 am »
yes i have active camera but it works with your other sceneries fine

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Re: Flikkering
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2013, 09:45:59 am »
What happens without Active Camera ?

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Re: Flikkering
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2013, 09:55:57 am »
will try and let u know

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Re: Flikkering
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2013, 10:50:50 am »
Strange - i didnt change anything on my settings at i have 32 bits - loaded KLAX right away and NO flickering at all.
yesterday i was coming from Paris on a long haul flight and i had this problem.
Have u experienced something liek that before ?

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Re: Flikkering
« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2013, 12:03:12 pm »
Have u experienced something liek that before ?

It's possible the highest detail mesh for the area hasn't loaded entirely (mesh loads in steps of progressively higher complexity), because of the memory exhaustion due to the long flight, and that can cause flickers, because the underlying terrain pops out.

Nothing the scenery can do to prevent this, and it's worse in FS9, since terrain loading is not fully multi-threaded as in FSX so, in order not to stop the simulation with a freeze/stutter, FS9 loads the terrain with a lower priority task, so it's possible you landed before the terrain loaded entirely.

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Re: Flikkering
« Reply #7 on: June 02, 2013, 04:46:16 pm »
tks umberto for the info.
would you recommend to switch to FSX ?

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Re: Flikkering
« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2013, 05:32:27 pm »
would you recommend to switch to FSX ?

We are not working on FS9 anymore, our latest FS9 product was KLAX, and it looks better and runs faster in FSX than FS9. So yes, switching to FSX is strongly recommended.

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Re: Flikkering
« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2013, 05:59:25 pm »
tks umberto for the info.
would you recommend to switch to FSX ?

And remember, when you switch to FSX, you wont have to pay a cent for FSDT sceneries, because the license is for FSX too  :)

You won't regret it!

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Re: Flikkering
« Reply #10 on: June 02, 2013, 08:34:37 pm »
I am still debating all the time with myself whether i shall switch - that would mean around 750 EUro that i would have to pay for add on software.

Is it still worthwile ? where is the huge benefit ?

Marek