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Good evening all...

Well I think I did everything the way I was supposed to do it and now I have large white squares when flying an instrument approach to an airport or even doing a circuit.
It looks like towns, houses, trees and runway sitting in a lake until you get really close in.
I have played with all the sliders and settings, checked and unchecked boxes.
The navigational lights and beacon work now when they did not before.
I think this is a decent machine with lots of memory, four (4) sticks of 1024 MB and all the same.
There is 320.06 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity with 280.78 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space.
The Processor is 2.60 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X 2 Dual Core (2 installed).
Display is NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX (Display Adapter)
Operating System

Good afternoon all...

Thanks EG7 I think it is unchecked but I will take another look.  ;)

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

Good evening all...

Well EG 7 it was unchecked so I restarted it again and still have those white squares.

I don't understand it, it worked fine the other day, but the navigation lights and beacon would not show, only a glow, now they work fine and I have these white squares all over.

Strange.  ::)

Any other ideas?

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

 I had the same problem, except my squares were black.  I finally got rid of them by lowering my sliders in the scenery section.

Good afternoon all...
Hi uncleyuk, I have moved those sliders back and forth and at different times and locations, still have those white squares.
It actually looks like some of the scenery is sitting in water so when you are doing an instrument missed approach and you look back at the runway it looks like it is sitting in water after you go about a runways length away. Houses, trees everything looks like they are sitting in water.

The scenery I do see is fantastic, wonderful, just annoying when looking out a window or forward and it looks like everything is in water.

Hope the next NVIDIA driver update will clear this up, the newest one I have is "163.75" and I check the site at least twice a day.

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

 Hey Doug,  this probably won't be much help, but........I build a lot of Airports from scratch in FS9 and occasionally, if I miss the elevation, the surrounding area will look like it's in or under water.  I realize that you have no add-ons but at least it's something to think about.

Good evening all...
Guess I will just have to wait it out until the college boys get their acts together.  :P  

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

I want to colage and I wud say the first thing I wood due is to uninstall FSX and start ofer


wut it sonds like to me is a corrupt FSX install altoe corrupt driver install might do da same thag

Download and run 3D Mark 2003 or 2006 and see if it crashes or haz corrupt taxtues. If nut, then its probly FSX

Ok, lets not go overboard with that. My response was meant as a joke but it was certainly not suggestive or slant on sterotyping, and, it did contain the correct way to check and possibly fix the problem.



Use the 3DMark graphics benchmark to see if there is a hardware or driver 3D issue. If that test runs fine I suspect FSX is somehow corrupt. If it does not run I suspect there is a driver or hardware issue.


You may also be running into a DX10 bug if FSX is in DX10 mode for Vista... If that is the case, I suggest you use the BETA Nvidia drivers http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp64_169.09.html  and be aware there are still DX10 issues with Nvidia drivers and FSX

HI Nick  

I have no idea what the 3D Mark graphics benchmark test is.
Running the latest driver so maybe I should just wait until NVIDIA comes out in a couple of days with a new driver.
I installed FSX and Acceleration fresh, no add ons and did a defrag, disk cleanup and virus check before reinstalling.

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

Run it in DX9 mode instead of DX10

does the same problem show?

If so, most likely you have a corrupt FSX install.

Thanks Nick....shall give it a try.  

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug