What the ffffffffffffffffffffffff !

[jime59]

Was being nice and didn't say it.

The water looked a little funny yesterday so I ran FSWaterconfigurator,which I've had from the beginning with not one problem,to see if it would change,and this is what happened.
The first 2 pics show before and the last 2 after.




I've done just about everything to fix this,including restore,and I'm out of ideas.

I run XP32 Pro

[Daube]

Your video card is dying... or getting hot... or almost out of memory.

[jime59]

No problems with anything else,graphics-wise.

Video:XFX 250/216 768 Black Edition.
Temp:49C
Driver:182.50
System is very clean with good air flow.
No new installs recently either.

[jime59]

I uninstalled FSW and then re-installed it. Went to FSX menu,chose a flight,and the same graphics glitch,I  hit escape to end flight and the screen flickered and lo and behold my graphics are as good as new.





Go figure. :-/  :-?

[Cessnaporsche01]

I've had similar troubles. See, I usually run FSX at completely full graphics in exchange for some fps just because I can, despite my two, rather aged 1024MB 9600 GSO SLI video cards. I noticed the past couple of weeks that I'd been getting black flashy-spots and the trees occasionally lose their background transparency (like your screenshots show) and not to mention, my fps dropped to like 2.

Anyways, I found that the "clear video RAM on startup" setting on my BIOS was turned off, so I turned it on, which helped. Also, switching to an HDMI screen from VGA greatly improved video performance, since no RAM is necessary for conversion from DVI to HDMI.