Big problem!

[cowbananas]

Hi guys,

Got myself a bit of a mystery here. I've had FSX (not SE) running all year on my Windows 10 'C' drive. It's been fine, good frame rates, all good. I uninstalled 'Aero Files-Texture Pack Booster' yesterday as it was causing squares to form around runway and aircraft lights but unfortunately, the uninstall took out FSX along with it. OK, no problem, I thought I'd re-install FSX on my 'D' drive to free up space on my 'C' drive.

 

I did that, lights back to normal, no squares. Now the problems begin. First let me say I use Samsung SSD drives on my brand new PC, all drivers are current and a Ryzen 7 2700 8 core CPU along with 32gb of ram.Graphics card is ATI Radeon RX580.

 

I'm now getting a fair bit of stuttering in flight but when I change aircraft or time of day which will reload textures, the texture re-loader will hang at zero without change. I left the pc for an hour and it was still at zero. This is intermittent. This has never happened once on the original install.

 

My FSX settings are bare minimum. I don't want to upgrade to the new FS2020 as FSX for me is all about the aircraft liveries I have designed for mainly 1960's aircraft, I have about thirty of them so I need FSX. SE is no good as I need FS Recorder.

 

I don't have any 3rd party scenery installed. The only add-on I have is FS Recorder which has never been a problem so far. I've Googled myself crazy over this issue.

 

Oh, one other thing. If I run a saved flight from FS Recorder from my original install, the runway isn't there anymore but comes back if I fly 'live' without FS Recorder replay.

 

Any help you can send my way would be massive. Thanks.

 

Chris

Edited November 16, 2020 by cowbananas

[amberdog1]

when you decided to reinstall to your "d" drive did you happen to uninstall it from your PC first, "C" drive and all files? your rig is fine for running FSX as well as MSFS, so it sounds like there is a conflict with the 2 installs.

[cowbananas]

Thanks for your reply, Amberdog 1. Yes, I did a complete uninstall from Drive C. I use a utility called 'Total Uninstall' which incorporates the FSX uninstaller so takes out everything. Trying to install with any FSX traces brings up a failed FSX install so I know that utility does it's job.

BTW, I didn't have the FSX aceelreration pack installed. Would that be a problem?

[f16jockey_2]

I didn't have the FSX aceelreration pack installed. Would that be a problem?

If you have the accelleration pack, you should install it.

If not, you should install the service packs SP1 and SP2.

 

Don’t do both!

 

Wim

[jorgen.s.andersen]

I would be very leery of such a utility. At the very least, after running the utility, check that the folder(s) where you had FSX and everything related to it are gone, then clean out your registry.

 

Jorgen

[cowbananas]

Right, I reinstalled FSX to my D drive and then installed the Acceleration pack. That did the trick, everything running smoothly now. It had been so long since the original install, I had forgotten about the Acc pack and just winged the problematic install. Now I have the pleasure of reinstalling all the aircraft and all my liveries. Good job we're in lockdown.

As usual, thank you for your help, guys.