Can someone please clarify something for me.DXT3 OPTIMIZED CLOUDS under REX2004' CLOUD THEME SET.Should you have this item checked on, if you have a beefy system? Or will this degrade cloud visualization. Will it actually ADD to the scene by having all 3 types of clouds depicted?If you use DXT3 cloud sets, are they still H.D.?A clarification would be appreciated. I will certainly check the above to 'on' if it enhances and does not take away from cloudscape and quality-of-same depicted.Thanks,Mitch

Enabling it will reduce the quality of the textures since it's a lossy compression algorithm, but it will cause those textures to use less memory. The quality loss isn't as noticible as switching texture size though.If you have a good system and don't have any issues at the moment, then there's really no point in enabling it.

Enabling it will reduce the quality of the textures since it's a lossy compression algorithm, but it will cause those textures to use less memory. The quality loss isn't as noticible as switching texture size though.If you have a good system and don't have any issues at the moment, then there's really no point in enabling it.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thank you! That is what I needed to know. Will not enable it.Mitch

I tried using DXT textures and every time I had a CTD in FS..Not sure why but I certainly will not try again.Keith

If you use DXT textures, than in FS options menu, under graphic, "render to texture" MUST be checked.

I tried using DXT textures and every time I had a CTD in FS..Not sure why but I certainly will not try again

Check the 'Render to texture' option in the Display menu of FS9.EDIT: Lol, dallyborr was slightly faster!

Aha..great thanks guys. I cant remember why, but somewhere I read not to use Render to texture in FS as that may cause a CTD as well. No problem though I will try that later.Many thanksKeith