Simviation Forum - Cure for invisible aircraft

Mar 14^th, 2011 at 5:08pm

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I am sure I read something about invisible aircraft here, but can't find it now.

For some reason and I know not why, aircraft that worked before I reinstalled FSX now either have bits missing (engines, spinners, undercarriage, glass, panels etc or are they competely invisible except for the pilots and lights any ideas why this is and how to cure it? I am assuming it is something to do with the textures.

I have FSX Gold with Acceleration running on Windows 7

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Reply #1 - Mar 16^th, 2011 at 5:48pm

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are the default craft invisible? or just the addons? if it is just the addons, i would say there is a problem in the texture files not being read properly. If it is the Default craft then there are other more serious underlying problems than just the textures being messed up.

Are some of the craft that you are trying to install made for FS2002/2004 ? if they are, they may not work in FSX as some of the coding might be wrong.

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Reply #2 - Mar 16^th, 2011 at 6:10pm

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Capt.Propwash wrote on Mar 16^th, 2011 at 5:48pm:

are the default craft invisible? or just the addons? if it is just the addons, i would say there is a problem in the texture files not being read properly. If it is the Default craft then there are other more serious underlying problems than just the textures being messed up.

Are some of the craft that you are trying to install made for FS2002/2004 ? if they are, they may not work in FSX as some of the coding might be wrong.

I only had default aircraft installed and they all were either invisible except for the piolt and lights, or had bits missing.

I have discovered it is a problem with W7 64 bit and FSX which is almost impossible to cure without re-installing FSX, which is what I have done.

I got rid of everything (again!!!!!!!!!!!!), cleaned out all registry entries, defragged, rebooted and actually managed to re-install in C:\FSX.

I have doen one long flight from Liverpool (UK) to Palma, Majorca in the Learjet with no problemas at all. I have loaded some scenery packages and pootled over the English countryside and apart from some blurred textures all was fine. I have some tweaking to do, but at last I am making some progress.

My growing gripe with FSX now is the lack of 2D panels which I prefer over the 3D ones

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Reply #3 - Mar 16^th, 2011 at 9:53pm

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yeah i feel you there. but then again i mainly fly spot view...

I am running Win7 Home Premium 64bit (sp1) , FSX Deluxe (sp2). my FSX is on an external drive that was on another computer, but i just hooked up the external to this computer, and was able to fly with no problems AFTER I turned off the UAC (user accounts control).

since then I have been downloading like crazy (see signature below) + FTX ORBX NA BLUE Pacific Northwest.

Now to go fly...

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