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Does anyone know what causes scenery to become blurry? I will often lose scenery textures in certain areas of flight. But, if I turn 180 degrees and fly in the opposite direction the scenery textures will come back in most cases. So it seems to be somewhat of a directional problem, although I still don't know what is originally causing the Loss of the scenery textures. Any help with this problem will be greatly appreciated...

Google fsx blurry textures and you will find tons of answers.

Does the problem occur if your use a small GA aircraft, eg: baby Cessna or a Microlight, etc, and fly slowly over the landscape?

High speed in a fast jet, with blurry textures, sometimes indicates your existing hardware (processor, graphics card, memory, HDD) cant keep up with the demand placed upon it..... ...!

Fly slower.... ... ...!

Paul... ...!

Blaunarwal wrote:Google fsx blurry textures and you will find tons of answers.

Ahhhh ........ not too sure about this advice in the FS2004 Forum. Just say'in.

gwillmot wrote:

Blaunarwal wrote:Google fsx blurry textures and you will find tons of answers.

Ahhhh ........ not too sure about this advice in the FS2004 Forum. Just say'in.

Oh yes, your so right. But are there blurries in FS9? I can't remember ever having blurries in FS9 times, but this is 8 years ago for me. Can't even remember what computer I used with FS9.

Google brings out more than 10 pages of this issue related to FS9 anyway.

I well remember the blurries on my FS 2004 when low flying with a fast jet,
The scenery refresh couldn't keep up, (with the HDD light constantly flickering loading data), and I had the keep pausing the Sim for the scenery to appear clear again!

The cure was to upgrade all my hardware with faster and bigger hardware to cope with the problem!!
Faster Processor, more fast Memory, better Graphics Card with more memory, better/bigger Hard Drive, etc... ...!

The alternative was to wind the graphics, etc, setting down.... ...!

My specs below runs FS 2004 and FSX flat out, with settings maxed!

Paul...blurry-eyed!... ...!

Even with the best hardware, I think FSX is thought to be used like that: Take off from an airport, go up to a flightlevel and stay there. At the destination descend and land. At least at the departure airport and destination I have sharp textures this way. Underway, sometimes, it's not perfect, but above the clouds...I don't mind.

What FSX is not designed for, is flying with a jetfighter at 800 kts at 100 ft. I think there is no difference about this between FS9 and FSX. As Paul said, with a small GA aircraft like a Cessna, there should be enough time to load the textures sharp.

Blaunarwal wrote:Oh yes, your so right. But are there blurries in FS9? I can't remember ever having blurries in FS9 times, but this is 8 years ago for me. Can't even remember what computer I used with FS9.

You DO know that you're posting in the FS2004 forum, don't you? I'm not sure of you're intent of giving advice and comments on FSX here. You don't want to antagonize the bears, do ya?

member of "FS2004 Preservation and Anti-Defamation Society"
member of "Abolishment of Microsoft Vista and FSX Movement"

gwillmot wrote:

Blaunarwal wrote:Oh yes, your so right. But are there blurries in FS9? I can't remember ever having blurries in FS9 times, but this is 8 years ago for me. Can't even remember what computer I used with FS9.

You DO know that you're posting in the FS2004 forum, don't you? I'm not sure of you're intent of giving advice and comments on FSX here. You don't want to antagonize the bears, do ya?

member of "FS2004 Preservation and Anti-Defamation Society"
member of "Abolishment of Microsoft Vista and FSX Movement"

Yes, at first, it has been a mistake . But the advice to google is good, for each version of the sim.

About the version conflict, I have to say for my defence, I have been user of all versions since FS4!

And of course, also FS2004 users have a right to suffer from blurries.

Fozzer wrote:Does the problem occur if your use a small GA aircraft, eg: baby Cessna or a Microlight, etc, and fly slowly over the landscape?

High speed in a fast jet, with blurry textures, sometimes indicates your existing hardware (processor, graphics card, memory, HDD) cant keep up with the demand placed upon it..... ...!

Fly slower.... ... ...!

Paul... ...!

This problem can happen and does happen when I'm sitting on the ground and not moving at all. But if I turn the plane and head out in the opposite direction the textures will come back in most cases. So it is a strange situation I can't figure out.

Federoff wrote:

Fozzer wrote:Does the problem occur if your use a small GA aircraft, eg: baby Cessna or a Microlight, etc, and fly slowly over the landscape?

High speed in a fast jet, with blurry textures, sometimes indicates your existing hardware (processor, graphics card, memory, HDD) cant keep up with the demand placed upon it..... ...!

Fly slower.... ... ...!

Paul... ...!

This problem can happen and does happen when I'm sitting on the ground and not moving at all. But if I turn the plane and head out in the opposite direction the textures will come back in most cases. So it is a strange situation I can't figure out.

Now that is strange. Have you been hitting the wacky weed or had one to many drinks
I have never heard of this happening in any version of Flight Simulator and i have been using one version or the other since 1995 I think.
There are a whole bunch of setting that you can change that might cure this problem.
On my older system I had to cut down some of the trees and change my range of visibility.

Federoff wrote:Does anyone know what causes scenery to become blurry? I will often lose scenery textures in certain areas of flight. But, if I turn 180 degrees and fly in the opposite direction the scenery textures will come back in most cases. So it seems to be somewhat of a directional problem, although I still don't know what is originally causing the Loss of the scenery textures. Any help with this problem will be greatly appreciated...

Hi there Federoff, I've had that problem, at least when moving in the sim.

I sorted it by "caching" the scenery. in settings, scenery library, list of installed sceneries. Find the area that you fly in most,

(in my case Western Europe), highlight that scenery area and click edit. You should now be able to choose the option to cache that scenery.

You may want to make sure that empty scenery cache on exit is ticked too, as it may slow down your PC in Windows otherwise.

I'm working at the moment, so don't have access to the exact folder names.

If you look in Flight Sim's learning centre, there's a couple of pages about scenery, or browse SimV or the web.

Cheers, Ford.

Thanks Laurie, I'll give that a try.

Yes, as Fozzer said, high speed may cause blurry scenery. My experience is in FS9, but usually only at high speeds, and not all of the time.

You need to monitor when exactly this is happening, that is, all the time, or some of the time.

If this happens while sitting on the ground, then see if it is related to any specific aircraft or, again, happening all the time. That would be most unusual. That business of it being
directional while on the ground is really strange, but again, see when it happens.

I have been able to narrow the situation down somewhat. The area's that this problem exist in are area's that I have installed add-on scenery but not all area's where I have installed scenery. there are about four area's where this problem exists. Of course these are the area's I fly to the most and have the most trouble with. So it seems to be a possible problem with the add-on scenery. But then again I have added ton's of scenery to FS9 over the years and this problem only exist in certain area's.