January 30, 200818 yr This just started on the flight I'm currently flying - never noticed it before that I can recall. When I switch to spot plane view, some sections of the city lights below me are flashing/blinking on and off. They get brighter than they should be (brighter than the other "normal" brightness city lights around them, and then disappear completely. It's been happening the entire flight now (more than an hour). Any ideas?
January 30, 200818 yr Are you sure this isn't from Ultimate Terrain. SOunds to me that it is like what happens sometimes with UT's night lights. I thought GE Pro was just ground textures?
January 30, 200818 yr no I'm not sure - I have both. GE Pro does night lighting as well so I'm not sure which add on is actually the culprit.I noticed something else, the only lights that are flashing are those that are "behind" the clouds. There was a scattered/broken cloud layer below me, and the area of lights that were being affected were only those that were partially obscured by clouds.
January 30, 200818 yr This is an acknowledged GE Pro situation I believe - the lights are in groups to minimise the effect on frame rates, it's a bit like cheap Xmas tree lights, when one goes out, the whole group go out.Apparently modelling each light individually would kill your frame rates stone dead.I believe this is right - please anyone correct me if I'm wrong.
January 30, 200818 yr This happens to me too -- I'm running GE Pro and UT. I was wondering if there was a fix, but since it doesn't happen all that often and apparently only under certain circumstances, it never bothered me enough to spend a lot of time researching it. Smooth Skies! -- Chuck B. MACHINE 1:FS2004/WinXP Pro 64, Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 Clocked to 4.35 GHz, Corsair H50, Asus Maximus Formula, 4GB PNY XLR8 DDR2 @1067, ATI 4870 and 4650, WD Raptor 10K RPM 160 GB HD, Seagate 500 mgb 32mgb cache, 2 Analog 2HTGs w/ 3 19" I-INC flat panel monitors 1280x1024x32, and 1 17" at 1280 x 1024, PC Silencer 750 Quad, FSPassengers, FSUPIC, (Payware), WideFS MACHINE 2: Dell Dimension, P4, WideClient, FDC Live Cockpit, Pro Flight Emulator, Active Sky v6.5 MACHINE 3: ASUS u81A Laptop, Windows 7 (what a joke!), WideClient, FlightSim Commander
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