Skywatcher12

One reason I have no interest in X-Plane is the many things it lacks or does poorly.

Well I got high results and as all I want to do is run FS9 I guess that means translated to my sim of choice my results are fantastic! haha The system specs are probably around what the specs will actually be when they are officially released by MS. Do official specs mean they are accurate? No. FSX recommended specs should show at least a 5GHz CPU with optimum specs putting it at 6GHz! lol

DXTFixer Run it through your entire FS installation.

Hans, In your situation, the above certainly did not apply. You would've ALWAYS had this problem. It means, no, waiting for a full moon will not help in that case and you needed to fix your texture files first.

Thinks it's time to retire from FS forums. lol

The new FS is coming, there is no doubt. Will it be anywhere near the expectations or how long will it last are different things altogether.

The fix is copying the folders as I said in post #18. This will fix it IF everything else in FS is as it should be. Doing what I said will reset things to remove the issue. Haven't bothered explaining what is going on because I don't want to type a million word post. All people need to know is the simple solution I gave will fix some aircraft texture loading problems. If you reply directly after my post and don't reference who you are referring too... No, my Win 10 has never had the problem, my Win 7 did. No, nothing is incorrect in my FS to cause this and yes, it almost certainly is an undiscovered bug.

Hans, Glad to hear you got it sorted. Your problem was different to mine so my fix wouldn't work for you. There are a number of reasons why textures on an aircraft may load slow and the common ones were outlined by 3Green. None of those apply to my situation. Anyhow, it's all good. I don't have this issue, I had resolved it on my old PC. I now have a new PC and chances are high I will never even see it again. The fix I outlined I am reasonably confident should work for anyone. This is assuming you have all other things in your FS correct that will not lead to slow loading textures and have an appropriate machine to run FS. If you still have slow loading textures, then try my fix. I have yet to test it due to time but I am reasonably confident it will work without having conducted a test.

Hans, (or anyone else with problem) Try this, do EXACTLY what I say: Create a new folder in the problem aircraft folder. Can be named anything, just "New Folder" will be fine. Copy all your texture/livery folders to the new folder. Now delete all your original texture/livery folders. Cut and paste the livery/texture folders from your New Folder back to your aircraft folder. You can now also delete the empty New Folder. Let me know if anything changes.

No, it's none of those things. If it is what I think it is, it won't happen to everyone, it won't happen to every aircraft and it may not even happen to every livery of a particular aircraft. Need some answers from people.

I think it’s safe to say it won’t return and they won’t reply. Nothing in this universe is forever.

No, it's a common problem, been around for years. Back in 2003 you could blame slow machines but not today. It may not affect every user but from the 3-4 posts in this thread alone you can see it affects people. I've had a fix for it but to offer it up publicly and make sure it works for everyone, I have to work out and understand exactly what is going on. This will then allow me to provide the best and simplest solution. I think I understand what is happening and will be able to deliberately re-create the issue and then of course resolve it. Need the free time to do some flying to test.

I really need some time to check a few things. I've had it happen 3 times over the past maybe 3 years or so. One day you load a flight and suddenly you get the half untextured aircraft for a moment or two. It stays like this until you fix it. It was also happening on my friends FS. I managed to fix all 4 texture loads so they were fast again. I do need some details from other people, it will help. If you have this issue: 1. Do all your aircraft liveries load slow or just certain aircraft? 2. For slow loading aircraft, does every livery load slow or just certain liveries? 3. Do you have mutiple texture folders/liveries in all your aircraft? Are there any aircraft you only have the one texture folder/livery and this still happens?

Failed to mention in my last post, the only setting that affects this is in the FS settings under Display/Scenery. Make sure you have "Extended Terrain Textures" checked. Your FS is functioning normally, there are no problems with it, hope I made this clear.

Never mind, not important.

Hi Hans, No, it's an undiscovered bug. What you are suggesting is true to a point and on lesser PC's. I have found you can have fast loading aircraft textures, then at some point, maybe weeks, maybe months, BOOM, suddenly you get the slow loading textures I described. Same hardware, same scenery files, same everything, the loading just suddenly becomes slow and stays slow. I have then found a fix to get the textures loading quickly again without making any change or converting of the texture files themselves. Most modern PC's should comfortably be able to load any aircraft textures quickly even 32bit textures. T'is a bug. I want to get some more information and do some more testing before I post any fixes to make sure the fix will work for everyone.

Oh...yeah...that. lol I made this discovery a while ago. Completely normal. Roger's suggestion earlier in the thread is the only workaround. I learned to live with it and have visibility settings set high. Many flight/combat sims I since found all work this way.

Looks like they simply haven't closed it. They have not been in communication with anyone via any means. They have well and truly vanished.

If you change from cockpit view to external view, do you have the aircraft half covered in a texture and it takes a moment or two for the other half to fill in? Is this happening with all your aircraft and all your liveries? Do you have an aircraft with just a single livery installed that this is happening too? I'm asking all these questions because I am quite certain this in many cases is a bug.

That's what I did mean, viruses plus whatever additional protection the virus software may offer.

Most of these programs are a scam but you can't convince people of it. When the program tells them this or that, they will believe it. I did some testing on a few well regarded programs years ago and they were clearly scamming people. Blows my mind that it has gone on for so many years and it still keeps going on today. For Win 10, the built in virus and firewall protection should be enough for most users. If people want an enhanced protection software, I recommend Norton despite what some say about Norton.

I had a woman ring me one time trying to tell me my PC wasn't functioning at it's best. I had some fun with her for a while. She ended up telling me to f off and hung up! lol

I tested the below entry quite extensively and found the best setting appears to be: TERRAIN_EXTENDED_RADIUS=6.000000 Out of curiosity Tom, why are you running TERRAIN_MAX_DEM_AREA=200.000000? I have this at 100. To be honest, can't remember why I came to the 100 number for this entry. I set all my terrain settings so long ago and why I'm asking. TERRAIN_EXTENDED_LEVELS=232 I did a lot of research and testing with this entry as there are many "You can only or you have to set this to this" opinions. Without going into a huge explanation, I firmly believe 232 is the best setting to use.

I have found there appears to be some sort of bug in FS9 which can affect aircraft texture loading times. Do you have multiple livery/texture folders for your 787 or do you just run one livery/texture folder all the time? If you use multiple liveries, are all liveries slow to load?

Not sure it's been mentioned, remember anti virus is one thing and security updates are another. Anti virus will only protect you from viruses come Jan 2020 and nothing else.