investdude wrote:Finally upgraded from Windows Xp (not connected to the internet) to Windows 10, specifically because I know from reports on Simviation and Sim Outhouse that CFS2 will work on Windows 10. It does work but the first thing I notice is that the aircraft skins are terrible. I suspect it has to do with it being only 16 bit. I have found the only BMP texture format that will work at all is 565 but it's not very good. Can anyone tell me what I can do to get aircraft skins looking at least reasonable?
I don't think your problem is directly connected with Windows 10 but you might need to update your graphics card drivers & tweak both graphics card & CFS2 display settings.
I have no knowledge of Nvidia cards. My everyday PC is an old Windows 10 64-bit laptop with all the latest Windows updates & AMD Radeon R5 graphics. This has always run CFS1/CFS2 & FSX perfectly well enough for my purposes.
There is a list of CFS2 supported texture formats in DxtBmp Help. 6 different formats are listed including DXT1 & 3.
I checked out the updated Fox Four Korea F-86 player aircraft & the main textures are 5i2 x 512 - 256 colours.
The CFS2 default aircraft main textures are 1024 x 1024 in the Extended DXT1 Bmp format. See shots below.
As I've mentioned before it's a very long time since I used CFS2 in anger & the display settings are the same as the last time I used it. It's quite possible I could improve them with a little tweaking.
Note: The DDS texture format was introduced with FSX & is not compatible with CFS2.