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May 27th, 2008 at 11:22am

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Hi all,

I downloaded various aircrafts from posky and ifdg. They worked fine, but now, i have this problem (not sure textures or scenery), the aircraft have missing painting, for example, u can see the tail colour but the rest of the airplane is gray (like a paintkit), different aircraft have different parts of the body with missed painting......in an attempt to solve the problem, i un-installed and then re-installed FS2004 but the problem still exists, i even downloaded more aircrafts, its mainly the ones from iFDG and POSKY with the problem....i only have 1 or 2 aircrafts and the original ones that come with the game that dont have the problem! what shall i do?
 
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Reply #1 - May 27th, 2008 at 9:07pm

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It's possible that your download was kept small in size by having the texture files abreviated.  In other words, let's say there are three texture folders.  Inside, there may be several individual BMP's we will call them "fusalage", "wings", and "tail".  Assuming that the wings and fusalage are the same paint pattern, and the tail has different "tail numbers", the download textures for two of the texture files would only have the "tail" BMP.  This makes the download package smaller, and less time to download.

The solution is to look at the texture that works and compare it to one that doesn't.  If I'm guessing right, you should simply be able to copy the missing BMP's from the one that does work to the ones that do not.

But I'm just guessing. Smiley
 
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Reply #2 - May 28th, 2008 at 2:41am

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give an example of one of the downloads you are having problems with...exact file name and from where you downloaded ...that's the only way you can get real advice..commoner Wink
 
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Reply #3 - May 28th, 2008 at 9:49am

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an example would be the Airbus A320, Swiss International Airlines from www.iFDG.net......the problem just suddenly appeared a few days ago..any help would be appreciated
 
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Reply #4 - May 28th, 2008 at 9:58am

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i can also upload an image of what the problem looks like, but i dont know how to do that in this forum!
 
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Reply #5 - May 28th, 2008 at 10:42am

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Click this link to upload your image --> Upload Images

Read the rules carefully & resize it first if necessary.
 
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Reply #6 - May 28th, 2008 at 2:19pm

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...can't see any problem with that aircraft..........here's mine just downloaded from here..... http://www.ifdg.net/moderndl.php ; .....suggest you delete yours and re download this....from the right hand column Smiley


Here's what I got....commoner Wink

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Reply #7 - May 28th, 2008 at 2:53pm

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the problem just suddenly appeared a few days ago..any help would be appreciated

Of course, it could be a display issue. Have you changed anything like your video card driver or display settings recently? Not sure about IFDG but some Posky models are reputedly very graphics intensive.
 
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Reply #8 - May 28th, 2008 at 5:42pm

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the only thing i did is a system restore to my computer for purpose other than flight simulator, everything worked fine, its just everything suddenly changed now.....as i mentioned earlier, re-installing flight simulator didnt solve the problem, i downlaoded the same files again, no success..... Embarrassed
 
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Reply #9 - May 28th, 2008 at 6:49pm

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I downloaded it too. It works for me.  Something must have been changed, but I have ne idea where to start.  Sad
 
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Reply #10 - May 29th, 2008 at 5:09pm

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so again, i re-installed flight simulator, this time deleting the files that remained and removed them from the recycle bin.....problem is still there, my flight simulator is useless now with this nuisance! im out of solutions! the thing is, everything was fine a few days ago! i changed nothing in my computer, apart from a system restore for a purpose other than FS, and i have done that before without any problems!
 
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Reply #11 - May 29th, 2008 at 6:22pm

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What OS are you using?  You should be able to check the status of your system.  You may have a hardware memory problems, like a SIM gone bad.
 
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Reply #12 - May 29th, 2008 at 6:29pm

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windows xp, nothing i changed in my pc
 
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Reply #13 - May 29th, 2008 at 6:55pm

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We have to be missing something here.

System restore can mess all kinds of things up. Had you restored your pc to a date prior to a DirectX update maybe? This sounds more and more like a system (OS) problem rather than a sim or download problem.

What DirectX version does your machine say it has installed?

 
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Reply #14 - May 30th, 2008 at 2:40pm

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how do i find out which DirectX is installed?
 
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