Hopefully, this is the right forum....

Has anyone else tried this down-load?  I tried it on my admittedly "low end" 2Ghz machine (2 G RAM), and it crashes FS9 just as the load finishes for "Fly Now". 

Is it just a matter of too slow of a machine, or has anyone else had this problem with a higher end machine (recomended in the instructions is 3Ghz)  If it's a speed thing, at worst I would have expected "jumpy" graphics, but an out and out crash? 

Or am I not sticking the correct finger in my left ear while stomping my left foot at the wrong frequency during the installation process again?   

You're not the only one. I installed it this afternoon and it crashes my machine too. I do have a 3.06 Ghz machine. Installed Flight Enviroment again. No problems what so ever.

Crash

beaky wrote on Apr 30^th, 2008 at 5:27pm:


YUp... it is.  I moved it here.   

Well, there is a "fix" posted on the download page which contains one BMP that replaces a "duplicate "broken cirrus"" file.  Is that supposed to the crash?

does anyone have EI on a Vista machine that works?

I suspected not.

It's something in the main texture folder, though.  I loaded the other componants one at a time, and it barfs when the texture folder is installed.

N. Chapman wrote on May 21^st, 2008 at 11:36pm:


That's super cool.  I've just downloaded and installed DXTBmp.  Not too rich on "how to" is it?  Or, to put it another way, have you ever seen the family dog try to read a news paper?

Do I open an "extended" or a "normal" image?

And how does it EI look after it's fixed and put to use?

N. Chapman wrote on May 22^nd, 2008 at 12:32am:


Okay, slow down a sec.  You lost me right after "Now for the juicy stuff.."  By "just drag" do you mean on the desktop, open windows explorer, locate the file in the texture folder, then drag it from  windows explorer and "drop" it on the DXTBmp shortcut?

If so, okay, DXTBmp opened, but I do not see any image or check boxes.

If I go to the DXTBmp "File", an use "Open Normal Image", the name of the file (Oceanheightfield 512 x 512 normal Bitmap ) shows at the bottom left, but I see no image or boxes to be checked or unchecked.

Boikat wrote on May 22^nd, 2008 at 1:08am:

ok so what you need to do is install everything in the FS9 root folder like you would if things worked right like they should. (but in this case they don't )

then locate the OceanHieghtField.bmp file.

Make sure that windows explorer is small enough so that you can see the DXTBmp icon on the desktop.

once you have located the file, simply drag the file as if you were dragging something to the recycle bin (place the cursor over the icon and release the left mouse button.) DXTBmp should open up.

one DXTBmp is open you should see a black and white picture that has a bunch of squiggles on it. on the right side(sorry about the mix up in the original post.) of the screen below where the alpha is shown there are two check boxes, one says "include when saving" and the other says "use 16 bit dither" make sure that the "include when saving" is checked and "use 16 bit dither" is not.

Now go to File>Save As>Extended Bitmap. A window should pop up and it should be in the FS9/Texture folder where the original file is located. if it is not go to the texture directory.

in the bottom box there is a list of file formats you can save as. (DXT1, DXT2, DXT3, DXT5 etc.) Save the file as a "Extended 32 bit 888-8" a box will then appear asking if you would like to replace the original file and say YES.

Now start the sim and see if it works.

if you keep the EI folder for future installation copy the file that we just changed to the EI texture folder and your future installations should go with out a hitch.

Happy Flying!