Hello all!I have recently been experiencing a strange problem with fsx and my search over several forums/websites have proven fruitless so I'm hoping someone here might be of help.After choosing my aircraft, location, time of day, etc. I choose FLY NOW and see the traditional loading bar. Within a minute or so my aircraft sits happily placed and ready for its flight. But strangely enough after several more seconds (and this can vary 5-30 secs) the sim goes to black screen and I get the loading status bar for the traffic (cars, boats, aircraft) AGAIN and then delivers me back into the sim. I have made no changes to the traffic or time of day at all. Weird. It does it with any aircraft, any location, but only 80% or so of the time. In addition, it may (or may not) reload the same items - traffic - into the sim during the flight itself. Again, I haven't changed a thing. I'm just minding my business enjoying the scenery out the window and BAM - black screen with a loading bar for traffic. Once it loads I am returned to my flight. No harm, no foul but extremely annoying, especially if it happens when on a challenging approach. Now for the topping on the cake. Sometimes, not all, when I land I see strange graphic anomolies such as vehicles with no bodies (just tires) or a plane with just the interior (no wings or wheels). When that occurs I am not able to save a flight or watch instant replay or even change views without my screen going completely black or strobing. I can still hear the sounds of FSX running but my graphics dump. Changing from full screen to windowed mode doesn't help at all. I have to shut the sim down completly. Nothing gets my picture back. The problem has occured once or twice in the past couple of years but I wrote it off as a fluke. In the past couple of weeks it has occured almost 80% of the time. It almost seemed to have started when I purchased Eagleflights CJ1 and installed it. But the problems occur with any aircraft. As for the essentials I run:Vista 64AMD Phenom 9650 Quad 2.3 GHz8 Gb RAMNVidia 9800 GT with latest drivers (190.62). Have also tried original drivers that came with the card (178.24) and just about everything in between. I run Driver Sweep in when clearing out a driver. Traffic XUTX - USA & CanadaGround Environment XASARadar ContactFSX sliders for aircraft traffic - 35%, car traffic - 15%, airport vehicles - lowI have done a complete uninstall/format/reinstall of all FSX programs on the partitioned drive. No change. :( Does anyone have any ideas? This is maddening. :( Mostly because it never really happened before and now happens a good portion of my flights. Thank you for reading and any help you might have.John

Hello all!I have recently been experiencing a strange problem with fsx and my search over several forums/websites have proven fruitless so I'm hoping someone here might be of help.After choosing my aircraft, location, time of day, etc. I choose FLY NOW and see the traditional loading bar. Within a minute or so my aircraft sits happily placed and ready for its flight. But strangely enough after several more seconds (and this can vary 5-30 secs) the sim goes to black screen and I get the loading status bar for the traffic (cars, boats, aircraft) AGAIN and then delivers me back into the sim. I have made no changes to the traffic or time of day at all. Weird. It does it with any aircraft, any location, but only 80% or so of the time. In addition, it may (or may not) reload the same items - traffic - into the sim during the flight itself. Again, I haven't changed a thing. I'm just minding my business enjoying the scenery out the window and BAM - black screen with a loading bar for traffic. Once it loads I am returned to my flight. No harm, no foul but extremely annoying, especially if it happens when on a challenging approach. Now for the topping on the cake. Sometimes, not all, when I land I see strange graphic anomolies such as vehicles with no bodies (just tires) or a plane with just the interior (no wings or wheels). When that occurs I am not able to save a flight or watch instant replay or even change views without my screen going completely black or strobing. I can still hear the sounds of FSX running but my graphics dump. Changing from full screen to windowed mode doesn't help at all. I have to shut the sim down completly. Nothing gets my picture back. The problem has occured once or twice in the past couple of years but I wrote it off as a fluke. In the past couple of weeks it has occured almost 80% of the time. It almost seemed to have started when I purchased Eagleflights CJ1 and installed it. But the problems occur with any aircraft. As for the essentials I run:Vista 64AMD Phenom 9650 Quad 2.3 GHz8 Gb RAMNVidia 9800 GT with latest drivers (190.62). Have also tried original drivers that came with the card (178.24) and just about everything in between. I run Driver Sweep in when clearing out a driver. Traffic XUTX - USA & CanadaGround Environment XASARadar ContactFSX sliders for aircraft traffic - 35%, car traffic - 15%, airport vehicles - lowI have done a complete uninstall/format/reinstall of all FSX programs on the partitioned drive. No change. :( Does anyone have any ideas? This is maddening. :( Mostly because it never really happened before and now happens a good portion of my flights. Thank you for reading and any help you might have.John

Have you tried renaming the FSX.cfg, restarting the sim, and letting FSX rebuild the config? That solves a multitude of problems. If that doesn't solve the problem(s), then you can simply go back and rename the old FSX.cfg. Yours sounds more like memory issues though with slow loading of scenery and objects. I would check your memory modules and make sure all are okay (after rebuilding the FSX.cfg). I would also check your Scenery.cfg for corruptions (Areas/Layers not in numerical sequence, etc.). It's located in the Program Data/Microsoft/FSX folder. Another suggestion is to make sure your hard drive has been recently defragged or at least defragged after installing FSX and/or scenery. It is unbelievable how defragged your hard drive will become after installing FSX and addon's. It could also be Traffic X not installing correctly. If it's like My Traffic X which I have installed, you can get rid of the default traffic by renaming the traffic.bgl. You can also go into the Scenery Library and disable it and see if that corrects the problem. (Turning off AI traffic in the FSX.cfg will also help you determine whether it's just a Traffic X issue. I have heard of the problems you mention before but don't know of any specific solution. Again, it appears to be memory related (and you have lots of memory and a 64 bit system!!!!). Hope this helps!Best regards,Jim Young

Hi,If you have a registered version of FSUIPC, the sync to real time option may be checked On.Thanks,

Have you tried renaming the FSX.cfg, restarting the sim, and letting FSX rebuild the config? That solves a multitude of problems. If that doesn't solve the problem(s), then you can simply go back and rename the old FSX.cfg. Yours sounds more like memory issues though with slow loading of scenery and objects. I would check your memory modules and make sure all are okay (after rebuilding the FSX.cfg). I would also check your Scenery.cfg for corruptions (Areas/Layers not in numerical sequence, etc.). It's located in the Program Data/Microsoft/FSX folder. Another suggestion is to make sure your hard drive has been recently defragged or at least defragged after installing FSX and/or scenery. It is unbelievable how defragged your hard drive will become after installing FSX and addon's. It could also be Traffic X not installing correctly. If it's like My Traffic X which I have installed, you can get rid of the default traffic by renaming the traffic.bgl. You can also go into the Scenery Library and disable it and see if that corrects the problem. (Turning off AI traffic in the FSX.cfg will also help you determine whether it's just a Traffic X issue. I have heard of the problems you mention before but don't know of any specific solution. Again, it appears to be memory related (and you have lots of memory and a 64 bit system!!!!). Hope this helps!Best regards,Jim Young

Thanks for the reply Jim. I have done a complete uninstall/resinstall of FSX and all associated add ons. Would that have erased my FSX.cfg during the uninstall? I can try to rebuild it and see if it helps. Also I have defragged using Vista defrag (Boo! I know) right after I did the reinstall of FSX and SP1/2. I have also had TrafficX rename the default AI to turn it off. You have some good leads for me, some I have already tried, others I can investigate. I appreciate your help. Regards,John

Hi,If you have a registered version of FSUIPC, the sync to real time option may be checked On.Thanks,

Jim, I DO have a registered version of FSUIPC and is IS checked to Keep FS clock sync'd. I will uncheck it and run a couple of test runs. Thank you!!!Regards,John

UPDATE: Unchecking FSUIPC stopped the annoying reloading. Thank you JimI still have the remaining problem of graphics going screwy when landing. My test flight ended in Van Nuys where the runway had turn off markings but no centerline. As soon as I turned off all the buildings on the airport property blinked once then disappeared. The aircraft were all still there, just no more buildings! When I tried to go into windowed mode FSX went black. Trying to go into full screen made my screen strobe black and white. I could still hear the sim running though. <sigh> Will keep trying. Anyone, anyone, Beuller, anyone?

Hi,If you are using the DX 10 Preview, uncheck it and restart FSX.

Hello all!I have recently been experiencing a strange problem with fsx and my search over several forums/websites have proven fruitless so I'm hoping someone here might be of help.After choosing my aircraft, location, time of day, etc. I choose FLY NOW and see the traditional loading bar. Within a minute or so my aircraft sits happily placed and ready for its flight. But strangely enough after several more seconds (and this can vary 5-30 secs) the sim goes to black screen and I get the loading status bar for the traffic (cars, boats, aircraft) AGAIN and then delivers me back into the sim. I have made no changes to the traffic or time of day at all. Weird. It does it with any aircraft, any location, but only 80% or so of the time. In addition, it may (or may not) reload the same items - traffic - into the sim during the flight itself. Again, I haven't changed a thing. I'm just minding my business enjoying the scenery out the window and BAM - black screen with a loading bar for traffic. Once it loads I am returned to my flight. No harm, no foul but extremely annoying, especially if it happens when on a challenging approach. Now for the topping on the cake. Sometimes, not all, when I land I see strange graphic anomolies such as vehicles with no bodies (just tires) or a plane with just the interior (no wings or wheels). When that occurs I am not able to save a flight or watch instant replay or even change views without my screen going completely black or strobing. I can still hear the sounds of FSX running but my graphics dump. Changing from full screen to windowed mode doesn't help at all. I have to shut the sim down completly. Nothing gets my picture back. The problem has occured once or twice in the past couple of years but I wrote it off as a fluke. In the past couple of weeks it has occured almost 80% of the time. It almost seemed to have started when I purchased Eagleflights CJ1 and installed it. But the problems occur with any aircraft. As for the essentials I run:Vista 64AMD Phenom 9650 Quad 2.3 GHz8 Gb RAMNVidia 9800 GT with latest drivers (190.62). Have also tried original drivers that came with the card (178.24) and just about everything in between. I run Driver Sweep in when clearing out a driver. Traffic XUTX - USA & CanadaGround Environment XASARadar ContactFSX sliders for aircraft traffic - 35%, car traffic - 15%, airport vehicles - lowI have done a complete uninstall/format/reinstall of all FSX programs on the partitioned drive. No change. :( Does anyone have any ideas? This is maddening. :( Mostly because it never really happened before and now happens a good portion of my flights. Thank you for reading and any help you might have.John

I believe ASA is doing it, it reinjects its weather after the initial load of the sim. It only does it once though.

Hi,If you are using the DX 10 Preview, uncheck it and restart FSX.

I'm not using DX 10 preview. Appreciate the try though. :)

Just answer your earlier question about the FSX.cfg file being removed during an un-install -Anything which was not a part of the initial installation will be left behind during an un-install. That would include the FSX.cfg file which is not created until you run the sim the first time.After an un-install it is wise to carefully search your HD for what might be left behind. You may be surprised at what you find. :(

Hi All,Let's be clear that it was not ASA causing the re-load, though you should click on the Refresh AI icon after the weather is fully loaded in FSX, which does re-load things.Thanks!

Just answer your earlier question about the FSX.cfg file being removed during an un-install -Anything which was not a part of the initial installation will be left behind during an un-install. That would include the FSX.cfg file which is not created until you run the sim the first time.After an un-install it is wise to carefully search your HD for what might be left behind. You may be surprised at what you find. :(

David,Thank you for your reponse. I did run a registry cleaner after the uninstall but did not actually search for any rogue fsx files. However, that being said, when I reinstalled fsx and ran it for the first time it gave me the new welcome to flight sim screen and all of my settings were reset to the low setting, default initial load. Wouldn't that mean that somehow the fsx.cfg file was deleted and was now being recreated? John