Drawing Failed

[caveman16]

When viewing some files in the sim folders, I get the message "drawing failed". Is there some reason why these drawings can not be viewed?   If it is possible, how do I go about viewing them ?  PC settings,etc ?
Thank you for your help.   caveman

[Cessna93]

I get this aswell, it is most likely beacuse of the picture itself and how MS saved it (JPEG, GIF, BMP ETC) it could be that it is saved as a diffrent type of file that you'r computer can't get. Or the file could be corrupted.

[microlight]

Don't panic! Nothing is wrong. The drawing fails because the texture files are not standard Windows bitmaps - they are enhanced with an extra channel that controls texture shine and/or transparency. If you google for a program called DXTBmp, this will allow you to view the texture files.

[FSFLYER2]

That file is one of Martin Wright's collection, I have found in XP that after using DXTbmp XP learns the drill and will open the FS bmp first time. The other prog of Martin's is SHOW.exe.

[microlight]

Not necessarily. XP will indeed draw uncompressed BMPs such as the 32-bit variety, but will not draw compressed formats such as  DXT3.

[FSFLYER2]

:-? What I should have said:- When in windows explorer XP and you click on a FS .....bmp texture file, it will open the bmp file in the DXTbmp prog: