Problems with FSX Scenery

[pavlos]

anybody can advise me or help me i get this blocky grass texture in fsx ive tried everything even install service packs 1 and 2 and i even tried fsx acceleration no luck , any help will be appreciated thank you , i have attach a photo so to show what it really looks like

 

[scruffyduck]

Does it look the same from any distance? What does it look like in top down view?

 

[pavlos]

added some more screen shots

thanks for the quick reply well i took some more screen shot this is the top down view what it looks like zoom @ 128.00 and another one from the tower zoom 6.00 and i took one last one top down view higher zoom 48.00

 

[scruffyduck]

Is this the same all over the world or just in a specific location?

 

[pavlos]

well i think it looks like its all over mostly with runways that has patches of grass all around it this one was Gbadolite (FZFD) in africa or where the grass meets an area there is only soil no grass ill show u an example with this screen shot this was taken at a different airport M'poko (FEFF)in africa

 

[scruffyduck]

Well if these are in Africa then it may relate to the land class texture for that land class in that area. I would also wonder about your video card and settings if you have blocky textures. I am no expert in this area but I seem to recall discussions on this in the past that came down to the video card.

 

[GHD]

I don't see any blocky textures near the African fields. It is most probably your graphics card or drivers which are at fault.

George

 

[pavlos]

hi

well im using a nvidia geforce 8500gt super+ 1 gb graphic card and the latest driver 175.16 and the graphic card is new its about a month old since i got it my video setting for fsx are as follows:

Anistropic filtering: Application controlled
Anti aliasing gama correction: on
Anti Aliasing mode: Application controlled
Anti Aliasing Transparency : off
comformant texture clamp : use hardware
Error Reporting: off
Extension limit: Off
Force mipmaps: None
Maximum Pre-rendered Frames: 3
multidisplay/mixed gpu acceleration: multiple display performance mode
texture filtering -anisotropic sample optimisation: off
texture filtering-negative lod bias:Allow
Texcture filtering -quality:quality
Texture Filtering-Trilinear optimisation: on
Threaded optimisation: Auto
Triple buffering: off
vertical sync:Use the 3d application setting

that is the setting of my video card

and the setting i use in fsx is

For Scenery:
Target Frame Rate:unlimited
Full Screen Resolution: 1152*864*16
Filtering: Anisotropic
Antialiasing: tick
Glorbal Texture Resolution: very high
lense flare:tick
advanced animation :Tick
information text: Continuous

Aircraft
Global Setting: medium High
Default Cockpit: 3d cockpit
show cockpit tooltips:tick
High resolution 3-d virtual cockpit:tick
Exterior setting
aircraft cast shadows on the ground:tick
aircraft landing light illuminate on the ground:tick

Scenery
Terrain and water
Level Detail Radius: Large
Mesh complexity:80%
Mesh resolution:5 m
Texture Resolution:30 cm
Water Effect: high 2.x
land detail texture:tick
Scenery object
Scenery complexity:dence
autogen density:dence
Special Effect Detail:medium

 

[scruffyduck]

I may be completely wrong but I recall from the distant past that it is a bad idea to allow the application to handle Anti-aliasing and Anistropic filtering. You might want to try one at a time setting these in the graphics card settings and see if that helps at all

 

[GHD]

Can you post the exact coordinates of your screenshot so we can compare like for like.

George

 

[pavlos]

Gbadolite (FZFD)

Tower: 118.300 MHz

Latitude: N4*15.00'
Longitude: E20*58.00'
Elevation: 1509 FT

Runway Length Surface ILS ID ILS Freq ILS Hdg
7 10503 Asphalt
25 10503 Asphalt BLT 109.900 254

and i tried changing Anti-aliasing and Anistropic filtering did nt work either

 

[GHD]

No problems here with AF set to Anisotropic and AA set in FSX.

George

 

[scruffyduck]

Well when I display that airport I get a completely different set of textures. The graphics card I use on my development machine is pretty pathetic. Messing about with seasons and other variables does not change things. I am using FSX Accel and I have no reason to assume that I have any odd textures - just the way that my machine displays things. This would suggest that different installations display things in different ways. No help at all in this case.

 

[pavlos]

well tried the same setting with AF still dont work my machine is fairly good

intel Core 2 duo cpu e4500 @ 2.20 ghz
with :4 gig memory
system type:32 bit operating system windows vista ultimate sp1

and i have install reinstall ,put sp1 an 2 tried fsx acceleration no luck lol i think maybe i have to get a new graphic card cause seem a lot of people having problem with nvidia but i would like to thank you for trying to help out especually scruffy duck many thanks

 

[rhumbaflappy]

Hi pavlos.

I think you have your FSX scenery "texture resolution" slider set to 7cm. Set it up to 1 meter and the blocks of color return to their normal fuzzy state.

Dick

 

[solid]

Hi you say you have " Full Screen Resolution: 1152*864*16"-- amigo I think it should be 32!!!!..Really Nvidia is as good as they come, I had your card and never failed I am now using a 9800GTS and it roars!!!!!

 

[pavlos]

still no luck i now have a gtx 260 same thing squairy pixel , and i have e8400 overclocked to 4 ghz but the scenery still the same i tried everything i posible know and those setting did nt work