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Post by lifejogger on Oct 27, 2006 10:51:59 GMT -5
I thought I would share this phenomenon that happens when both FS9 and GW are installed on my computer at the same time. When I am in FS9 and I have been flying for at least an hour I slowly start losing my textures until I they are completely gone. If, I close FS9 and then restart it and start flying again I will again start losing my textures after about an hour of flying. After some experimenting I found that if I go to the FS9 display settings and change my screen resolution I get the textures back but, I will eventually lose them again and I will have to change the screen resolution again. The interesting thing about this is that it happens in GW too. So after a number of months of this happening I finally uninstalled GW and guess what, no more losing the textures in FS9. Later I reinstalled GW and the problem was back. So apparently on my computer I have a texture problem when both FS9 and GW are both installed and I haven’t been able to figure out what it is. Well that’s my story and right now I don’t have GW installed.  I was hoping to get around this problem by using FSX for flying modern aircraft and GW for vintage but FSX runs like a PowerPoint presentation on my computer, so for now I'm stuck.. |
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Post by Dave3cu on Oct 27, 2006 18:59:32 GMT -5
That's weird..... never heard of that problem John.
What textures are you losing? Terrain? Objects? Are they reverting to 'base' textures? (colored squares for terrain, grey for objects). Do you have any screen shots for examples?
Is time the factor or is it possibly distance (from where you first started) or entering a certain geographic area (does it happen everywhere in the world)?
Do you have any global/regional replacement scenery or terrain add-on in one and not the other?
One thing you could try: When you start to lose textures, change the time (1 hour is enough). This causes the sim to refresh the scenery. Are the textures still missing?
Another: Start one of the sims, goto the Scenery Library, uncheck an area (and recheck if you like) so you get the 'you have made changes...........restart the sim...' message. Restart the same sim and see if the problem is still there.
Dave
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Post by Admin on Oct 27, 2006 22:39:14 GMT -5
A couple additional questions, John. Are your installs updated to FS9.1? Do you have scenery installed in the Addon Scenery folder?
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Post by lifejogger on Oct 28, 2006 8:02:47 GMT -5
Dave,
I would lose all my textures, VC, Plane , Scenery, land class etc.
It was not time factor or distance. If I closed the flight and opened up another that flight would not have texture. The only way to correct it was to change screen resolution with in the sim or restart the sim.
Tom,
I had FS9.1 is/was installed on both (I do not have GW installed right now). I had/have scenery installed in the addon scenery folder. There was different scenery in in each folder, GW had different scenery in its addon folder than FS9. That may be where the problem was. I noticed that FS9 and GW shared the same scenery cfg. Is that how it is suppose to be? I would really like to get GW back on my computer but I will need to fix this problem.
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Post by 314clipper on Oct 28, 2006 9:07:54 GMT -5
Lifejogger, I often have a similar problem on my system. However, my old computer did the same thing with a single installation of FS9 (no GW3). The problem seemed to begin on both after reaching approximately 65-75% capacity on the hard drive, so I attributed it to age and a certain amount of accumulated registry corruption due to the sheer volume of addons, tweaks, etc. Just something to consider, but could the problem appear to be fixed by removing GW3 simply because the amount of stuff on your HD was reduced? Incidentally, the problem on mine doesn't seem confined to FS, as it will begin to run slowly after a while just by working with a bunch of open files (such as when installing a large batch of new scenery or aircraft). Pretty sure you should have a separate scenery cfg in each main FS folder. Not sure how you could have two separate installations sharing a common scenery cfg, but it seems that would cause its own set of problems. Hope this helps a bit in sorting it out.  |
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Post by Admin on Oct 28, 2006 9:32:09 GMT -5
I asked those questions because there was a memory leak in the texture folder of the Addon Scenery folder. Textures would load but not unload so after a while you would have a memory shortage. That is what your problem sounded like to me. BUT the 9.1 update allegedly fixed that problem. There was a saying way back before the patch, "Never put addon scenery in the Addon Scenery folder."
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Post by foxwolfen on Oct 29, 2006 14:08:17 GMT -5
John, I have had the same problem this week myself. Whats odd is this install of FS and GW3 always had problems with the "visibility" layer not being right and always having a solid line of cloud layer through my scenery. I was suspecting it was an addon much as Tom describes... after about 10 minutes it seems to clear itself and things return to normal. What was odd was that if I shut down, it would persists into the next session, but if I waited it out, it went away. I was aware there was a memory leak in the old FS, but I use 9.1 and have not noticed a leak in main mem, but I may use a tool Bill Leaming posted and watch video memory. The post was WRT FSX, but works just as well in FS9. www.aerodynamika.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=tips;action=display;num=1161187496Cheers Shad |
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