Robert1936 Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 I recently did a full re-install of FSX on a computer built for and dedicated solely to FSX. I then installed third party scenery and airports (but not all airports that I had in the previous installation). Then I reinstalled Aerosoft A320/321 Everything ran reasonably well for a while and then quite suddenly: bits of the A320 went AWOL so that I could see through the ‘plane, then whole sections went missing followed by spot views becoming invisible (except for shadow when on the ground). Soon after, scenery started deteriorating with almost total degradation of landscape and loss of many airport features, including taxi- and runway markings. What should I make of this? Have I overloaded memory or the video card, do I have a software clash? Not sure where to start on sorting this out. FSX is not usable at present. PC spec: Intel i5-4690K CPU @3.5 GHz 8 GB RAM NVIDIA GeForce GTX90 video card 64 bit OS All advice welcomed. Thanks Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrzippy Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 Rebuild your FSX.cfg and see if that help your situation. Still thinking about a new flightsim only computer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorgen.s.andersen Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 If rebuilding that file doesn't help, then I'm afraid you're looking at a re-installation. Jorgen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 Do the graphics problems happen with a default plane too? Test with only default planes and airports for a while. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert1936 Posted January 18, 2018 Author Share Posted January 18, 2018 Thanks. I will take it carefully - having done one reinstall I don't look forward to doing another. But if I have to re-install FSX do I also have to remove all the add-one scenery and airports as well before running the re-install, or is it just FSX itself that needs to be removed and reinstalled? Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrzippy Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 All addons will have to be re-installed. Make this your last resort! Still thinking about a new flightsim only computer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert1936 Posted January 19, 2018 Author Share Posted January 19, 2018 Right, I had a short session with FSX. removed all fsx.config files and flew Cessna. Plane flew fine but scenery looked terrible (two runways side-by-side at my home airport -Liverpool) and lots of ground markings missing around airport. Flew to Hawarden where again the taxi-way marking were missing, but airport buildings - which I expected to be default - all looked very good. Airbus Industries factory and hangar etc which I'm sure can't be default, yet I have not installed airport here, only N.England and N.Wales scenery. Not sure how to turn off added scenery. Then tried the King Air; hopeless, wouldn't take off but careered around the airport on the ground and through the buildings. It responded to none of the Saitek controls. As it happens my joystick (for A320) is plugged in and King Air rudder moved in response and slewed aircraft on ground (but nothing else). Looks like I'm close to the last resort of a re-install. This is too much work at present - need to deal with the rest of my life! Is there anything else I can try at this stage? Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomTweak Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 removed all fsx.config files and flew Cessna. You removed the correct FSX.cfg file, yes? Not the one in the main, or root, FSX folder, like for example C:\Games\FSX, but the one in C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX folder? That's a pretty common mistake... yet I have not installed airport here, only N.England and N.Wales scenery. Not sure how to turn off added scenery. Go to Settings>Scenery Library menu. Search down through the list shown until you find the scenery folder you want to disable. Highlight it with a left click, then click on Delete Area from the menu. Or just click the little box with a check mark in it, beside the scenery folder's name in the list, and lclick it to make the check mark disappear. Click OK to exit, and let the scenery databases rebuild. If it's not there, close FSX completely, go to the FSX\Addon Scenery\Scenery folder, and look for any .bgl file with the name of the airport(s) giving you problems, and move them to a back-up folder, or just delete them. Restart FSX and see if the problems disappear. Then tried the King Air; hopeless, wouldn't take off but careered around the airport on the ground and through the buildings. It responded to none of the Saitek controls. Sounds like whatever flight you saved off as the default, the plane's Autopilot was left on. But when you delete the correct FSX.cfg file, it will restore the original, default default flight, so to speak. The trike over Friday Harbor. Leave that as the default flight. THEN go try the King Air. Make sure you calibrate whatever device you use for control, before you go flying. Saitek yoke, joystick, whatever. Check to see that the desired control device is showing in the Settings>Controls menu. Whenever you get a situation like this, where you can't seem to control the plane, once you're in the world, click Z, and listen for the Autopilot Disabled tone. If you don't hear it, click Z again, until you hear the tone. Once you do, go to Spot view, and see if the controls move with stick. If the rudder won't move, but the rest do, try hitting CTRL+D, and see what happens. Try trimming the pitch up a bit, say two to four degrees, before you start your take-off run. A lot of planes won't lift off unless you do. Be ready to trim it back down once you start flying, or you can stall and crash on the end of the runway :D Same for the correct flaps setting. Most planes will need at least one or two clicks of flaps to lift off. And the pitch trim, of course. Hope something in there helps a little... Pat☺ [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Had a thought...then there was the smell of something burning, and sparks, and then a big fire, and then the lights went out! I guess I better not do that again! Sgt, USMC, 10 years proud service, Inactive reserve now :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert1936 Posted January 19, 2018 Author Share Posted January 19, 2018 Thanks Pat, I'll follow through on your helpful suggestions. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il88pp Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Not sure if I'm reading this correctly, but if you deleted the wrong fsx.cfg file, make sure you restore it from the recycle-bin. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert1936 Posted March 29, 2018 Author Share Posted March 29, 2018 At last I have got around to doing a full reinstallation of FSX. On launch I get the message 'SCENERY.CFG file.error.Local scenery directory (Scenery\EGBB\SCENERY) in scenery area 1.30 not found. Click OK to continue'. Continuing after this message seems to create no problems. Is it anything I need to attend to? Progess to date - default aircraft flywing well and I've loaded some add-on airports OK. First trouble is with UK Night Scenery (almost stopping the action). So I'm going to remove this and see if default aircraft are OK again. A bit odd because this particular scenery was absolutely fine in the last installation of FSX - combined with a very large number of weather, scenery and airport files. I'm not hurrying - I want to get it right! Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert1936 Posted March 30, 2018 Author Share Posted March 30, 2018 I bit the bullet and did clean reinstall. If anyone can bear to read this long log and could help me, I'd be very grateful - it is so frustrating. I followed advice and at each step flew a default aircraft to make sure nothing had gone wrong with that step: This is a clean reinstalled of FSX. My previous installation used a lot of additional scenery including, the Playsims VFR scenery for Southern Scotland, N. England and N. Wales, Eastern Ireland and South of England. Also, about 12 UK and European add-on airports. GEX Interface and Ultimate Terrain Europe, Rex Soft Clouds, Rex HD Worldwide Airports, Aerosoft Night Environment UK. I mainly flew the Aerosoft A319/320. Without any warning everything went wrong – mainly the A320 and other aircraft becoming transparent and a general loss of smooth operations. Nothing was changed or added immediately prior to this that might account for loss of effective use of FSX. This is a log of my reinstallation in March 2018, basically at each step I flew around in a defult aircraft to make sure that all was well: Installed FSX Added GEX interface and Ultimate Terrain Europe X Installed EGGP/EGCC Flew Cessna from EGGP– needed to reduce FSX realism setting to less than maximum (with acceptable results) Installed EGBB and flew Cessna, poor scenery but realised that I had installed an older freeware version. InstalledUK 2000 EGLL/EGKK Flew around and between EGLL/EGKK Returned to EGGP and:- Noted that EGGP/EGCC airport scenery had deteriorated Installed Rex Soft Cloud Uninstalled EGBB and installed UK Scenery 2000 version Good imagery of EGBB and flew around successfully Installed Aerosoft Night Environment UK Frame rate reduced to about 3 fps (note: this was excellent in the previous installation) Uninstalled Aerosoft Night Environment UK Flew around EGBB – all OK Installed VFR scenery for N. England and N. Wales Cessna flights OK Installed UK2000 EGGP Xtreme Again, flew Cessna, all OK Launched GEX interface and Ultimate Terrain Cessna flights OK Flew King Air with various weather settings Installed Aerosoft Koln-Bonn EDDK airport Flew Cessna OK Installed Dublin Int. EIDW with high res textures – all buildings black blocks Reinstalled EIDW without high res textures – better but still some black block buildings Returned to fly Cessna from EGGP – scenery very much altered for the worse Uninstalled and reinstalled EGGP Flew Cessna: scenery all wrong: some airport features missing, water around the airport, blocky colours for the Mersey. Reinstalled EGGP (twice) no improvement. Reduced scenery and weather to medium low settings – no change. So I seemed to have reached a point at which scenery is misbehaving and no hope of progressing to A320. Loss of Night environment extremely annoying. PC spec: Intel i5-4690K CPU @3.5 GHz 8 GB RAM NVIDIA GeForce GTX90 video card 64 bit OS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorgen.s.andersen Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Well, let's see what we can do here.... First of all, you don't mention if you installed the UK2000 Common Library - that is a must for their scenery to work. I would assume you have it, but we have to be sure. Second, you may have the sceneries in the wrong order of priority. And third - and almost certainly - you have duplicated sceneries. For managing your scenery and their priorities, you should get a utility called Scenery Configuration Editor (SCE), and to check for duplicated scenery you should get Jon "Scruffy Duck" Masterton's Simple Airport Scanner (SAS). If you need links for these, then reply here, and I can send you the links tomorrow. Jorgen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert1936 Posted March 31, 2018 Author Share Posted March 31, 2018 Yes please Jorgen, if you could let me have the links that would be very helpful Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert1936 Posted March 31, 2018 Author Share Posted March 31, 2018 Oh, OK Jorgen I have found them, thanks. Will get to work on it! Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert1936 Posted April 1, 2018 Author Share Posted April 1, 2018 Just to say thanks, Jorgen. As you suggested, I had duplicate files. Eveything seems to be OK now - though I'm still with default aircraft. May install Aerosoft A319/320 tomorrow. A long day sorting it all out - but without your help it would have been even longer. Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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