FS crashes (Only in certain areas) when loading bar gets to 77% (Loading Weathe

[mattius]

I have installed FSW cloud textures. Now I get weird problems in certain areas, notably Alaska. If weather setting is set to anything other than clear, then FS crashes when bar gets to 77% (Loading weather), when creating a flight. I have heard that this can be caused by DXT3 textures. How can I tell which textures are DXT3? I seem to recall being given a choice of DXT3 or 32 bit when I replaced the default cloud textures with the FSW ones. Or does anyone know of any other reason why this could be happening?

[Bruce]

if you use dtx 3 textures for the clouds you need to use render to texture. the 32bit clouds can be viewed in image viewer dtx 3 can't. dtx 3 textures are compressed and therefore smaller than 32bit textures; i use the standard sized cloud textures but have converted them all to dtx 3, visually the difference is indecernable, but i have noticed a definate improvment in smoothness. the standard cloud textures are 43.1 mb when converted to dtx3 they are 10.7, or to put it another way a 75% saving.