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Re: Terrain trouble

Postby rootbeer » Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:21 pm

I had something like this happen to me the other day. I was over Texas, I think, and a massive drop of the scenery appeared in the distance. I continued along my flightpath and it got closer. When I got there, I saw it to be in a lake, with the water dropping away for hundreds of feet like a huge piece of glass had been put there and all the water drained out. There were several spires out in the lake that looked like those spires out in the Arizona desert which you oftentimes see in beer commercials and music videos. I eventually flew past it; it did not follow me around.

The thing is I have never seen this before until I discovered Mike Stone's Hangar and downloaded a bunch of his self-installing planes. I noticed that my computer ran slower and that things like the landing gear would blink and flutter, and I could look completely through the engines of some jetliners at a certain angle but not at other angles. Anybody ever seen this with Mike Stone's airplanes?
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Re: Terrain trouble

Postby ashaman » Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:16 pm

Never a good idea to let the autoinstallers do the work for you.

Even the payware are installers that I really would like to do without.

With Stone's or others free planes, I behave alike. Create a dummy folder in which let the installer go hog-wild, then install everything by hand without overwriting files I know already perfectly working or which use is unspecified in the instructions or unknown to me.

Better that the new plane has to be deleted than for me to reinstall the sim every time an autoinstaller messes up.
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Re: Terrain trouble

Postby rootbeer » Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:19 pm

I've fooled around a little since then and have had no problems since. I have no explanation for it.

I used the auto-installer because I can't do it manually. It just does not work on my machine...
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