CTD when on approach

[bkircher]

So if the case is right that Im running out of memory, is there a way that I can like defrag my memory to reduce the amt of memory that is being used?

[9Y-POS]

OK i think i have now narrowed the issue i've been having w/ the freezing that comes on approach to PHNL, ive noticed it only occurs at dusk, night or dawn, even if i load the scenery from a runway or gate, the same issue of the scenery freezing.
Could this be a texture issue w/ the some night time textures or something? just a  guess.

Regards

[bkircher]

Hmm interesting. Ill have to see if I get the ctds on approach at that time of day.

[virtuali]

Yes, there is a missing texture, if was discussed here:

http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=2743.0

we already fixed it in the version for the patch, but in the meantime, you can try the solution posted in that thread.

[9Y-POS]

Yes, there is a missing texture, if was discussed here:

http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=2743.0

we already fixed it in the version for the patch, but in the meantime, you can try the solution posted in that thread.

Yup that did it, no more freezing, alas!

wait a minute i think i was a bit to hasty to jump for joy, it just happened again! Now why is this happening intermittently i have no idea, at this point i'm just miffed. maybe when the update is released it would work itself out mysteriously, for now i give up 

[bkircher]

With those textures that were needed from the FLL scenery seems to have done the trick for the time being. I did not get a ctd, but the buildings were very slow to load. Not sure why. The cargo buildings loaded right when I was about to touch down, and usually the buildings are loaded some 5miles out.

[virtuali]

The cargo buildings loaded right when I was about to touch down, and usually the buildings are loaded some 5miles out.

Have you followed all the discussion about the Anti-popup slider ? That controls the loading range for objects.

[bkircher]

No I have not, where is that? Sorry about that. Thanks for all the help Umberto

[virtuali]

Well, it was on the KFLL forum, however the concepts are valid for any of our sceneries. Basically, with the Anti-popup slider, you can increase the range of objects ( 1.0 means as they are designed, 10.0 means 10x bigger range, etc.), at the cost of fps. Just try with different settings, depending on your system.

[bkircher]

Ok ya I got it and see it. Now is that just for your scenerys that the anti pop up slider works for?

[virtuali]

Yes, only objects handled by the Addon Manager.

[bkircher]

Ok gotcha. THanks Umberto!!!!

[bkircher]

I set the anti popup slider to 20, and when I was landing the buildings still poped up around a 1 mile final. Any suggestions?

[virtuali]

I set the anti popup slider to 20, and when I was landing the buildings still poped up around a 1 mile final. Any suggestions?

If by "buildings", you mean the main terminals, these are not handled by that slider, and are not even using dynamic loading range so, they are always loaded when in the scenery range, which is 8 nm for PHNL so, it's just not possible they would load at 1 nm.

Don't confuse buildings, with additional extra detail on them, which is the LOD in action.

For example, a building might load at 8 nm, but a more detailed version of it will load closer. This doesn't have anything to do with the Anti-popup and, since it's NOT causing pauses (because the object is loaded entirely with all its LODs only once), will stay like this.

The things that are controlled by the Anti-popup slider are smaller details, like ground vehicles, cars, signs, 3d taxilghts, etc..

[bkircher]

Ya I was refering to the terminal buildings. Ok, I thought that the anti slider controlled all buildings, but ok I understand now. Wasnt sure 100%