Hi,

I joined this forum specifically to ask about this. I've been playing FSX for 2 months or so and have enjoyed it a lot. I have a Geforce 7600 GT and 2 gigs of RAM, kind of an obsolete system but it works for me, graphics wise. I have a lot of the settings in FSX turned up, though autogen is at normal and airline traffic, road vehicles, etc are set low. Generally everything looks great and runs smooth, despite my system being pretty outdated by today's standards. I had problems with blurries but used this tweak at http://iblueyonder.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/fsx-relief-for-the-blurries/ and it worked remarkably well. So for the most part everything is great. Somtimes the FPS suffers a bit in city areas, but I prefer flying in remote rural places anyway. Overall everything is good.

There is ONE problem that has been annoying the heck out of me. When I switch views after a long period of time in one view, the next view takes a second to load the textures and the model is just gray, as if it was painted in primer or something. So say I'm in VC view for 2 minutes or so, then switch to spot view - the plane's exterior will be gray for a second, then the textures will load. If I'm in spot view for a minute or so and then switch to VC view, the virtual cockpit will be gray for a second and then load. It only happens when there's a short period of time between the view switch - if I switch 10 or 20 seconds apart, there's no gray texture-loading. It's only a split second that the model appears gray, really like 1/6 of a second, but it's still enough to take me "out of the moment."

What can I do about this? It's quite annoying. Any help would be REALLY appreciated. Thanks!

Thanks for the advice. I will try those settings on the page you mentioned. As for defragging, I have 2 hard drives - one is 80 GB and has all my important stuff on it. The other is 320 GB and has almost nothing on it except FSX. I did run registry cleaner and I think it may have helped a little, but I'll try that other thing you mentioned.

bottom line

the gray textures that take so much time to reload...

your system is overtaxed and the driver setting may also be affecting this


All I can do is point you to some threads you should take note of:

Assuming you are running WindowsXP

2 posts starting here: http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?board=FSX;action=display;num=116...

follow up on that in one post here: http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1191612347/30#33

driver change, how to do it and how to set it up here: http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1191612347/45#50

Last, work the FSX sliders and config file tweaks as posted here:

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1183998514/60

and here:

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1183998514/60#71



and you assume the responsibility for making such changes.. but, if you do it right and follow directions, you should have the same results posted here: http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1191612347/60#68


Your Windows startup may also be infested with garbage programs that are unneeded and booting with Windows, or the system full of spyware. I would download, install, update and run Spybots search and destroy and have it get rid of anything it finds. The Windows startup programs may be over the top. Typically, 23-30 processes is all you should be running. Check that by bringing up the task manager and clicking the 'processes" tab. If you are running 40+ I would bet the system is bogged down with that too.


also, any AV programs do not run well with FSX. Avast and AVG are both known for causing background problems with FSX. Make sure to disable them before booting the sim.