Finally getting my new FSX sorted out.  The first has undoubtedly been seen by many but it sure was a surprise to me - a lot faster without the wings  .  The second is pure default just showing how FSX looks on my FS9 machine - compression is not my friend.                                       

Looks like it's getting there.

What are you using to compress your shots and what is the sim resolution set to?

B-Valvs wrote on Dec 4^th, 2009 at 8:56pm:
Using Paint.Net and the Sim resolution is 1440x900 (32) - same as Display.

I'm not sure what you are referring to about "compression"...these disapearing textures appear a lot with complex planes like the PMDG products.  People have solved them by lowering things like BUFFERPOOLS, which probably doesn't apply to you;  Also, without knowing any more about your setup or machine, some have lowered their sound card settings to 8000khz (telephone quality) and that problem went away.  I've never heard of any body having this with the default Cessna although it happens to me all the time when using beefy aircraft, especially at the transition from day to dusk and turning panel lights on. Maybe your GPU card just doesn't have the juice.  Is that SeaTac? Yuk...you need UTX

Hagar wrote on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 1:16pm:
It was a bad (terrible) install.  I designated the file path for both as D:\Microsoft Games and no \Flight Simulator 9 or \Flight Simulator X.  Looked like a pile-up on the M1.  After I regained my senses, it was fixed.

Hagar wrote on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 1:16pm:
This was acquired with FS9 in mind but, after that started giving me fits, I discovered that "Mr Shanks" had his new FSX running on a similar machine and his results were good.  My results, so far, have been equally good - just got to be careful what I add on.
Intel 2 core E6300 2.8/ASUS P5QL/EVGA 8800GTS/Antec300 case and 'earthways' 650W.

olderndirt wrote on Dec 5^th, 2009 at 10:21pm:

That sounds messy. Could explain a lot. Rather than try sorting it out it might have been better to uninstall & start again from scratch. These things always look clearer in hindsight.

However, this appears to be a separate display issue. I'm no hardware expert but I think your machine should be more than capable of running FSX. It's only a wild guess but I suspect the problem is either connected with drivers or display settings.

The next question is, which version of FSX? RTM, SP1, SP2, Acceleration etc. Which OS - XP, Vista, Windows 7? Have you done any CFG tweaks?

This is rather hidden away here in Screenshots. I think you might get more help on it in the FSX forum.

PS. I found another thread on the subject, sadly with no feedback to say if or how it was fixed. http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1254749170

Hagar wrote on Dec 6^th, 2009 at 4:29am:
That's exactly what I did - very carefully and all's well in my little Flightsim world - for now.  A side note.  Thinking my original FS9 had some kind of corruption on one of the disks, I bought another from Amazon.  Imagine my dismay when I discovered it was a 9.0 - how long had that been on the shelf?  Added the 9.1 patch and keeping my fingers crossed  .