I hope that I can find some help to locate a rogue that has recently showed up. It has turned some taxiways to an orange/reddish color like red dirt where they were concrete or asphalt before. I've disengaged sceneries that I recently installed and I attempted to eliminate taxiway textures in the FS9 Texture file to no avail. It appears for the moment to be affecting airports in N. Calif. even SFO. Please see the screen shot.Does anyone recognize it and what is the name?Also, how can I view the textures to see if I can identify it by sight? When I attempt to view them, some are able to be seen while a large majority tell me "drawing has failed". Thanks you for any ideas.Jim D.

Hello Jim,You need an image viewer for DDS and DXT image files. You can try the following:The Microsoft Image Tool is included with the Flight Simulator SDK.Martin Wright has a large number of utilities for Flight Simulator, including multiple image viewers and editors:http://www.mnwright.btinternet.co.uk/You can also look for free utilities on the Internet: - nVidia provides free extensions and utilities on their web site; - the XnView program is a very handy tool that is "a free software to view, organise, convert graphics and photos files orto create slide show, contact sheet, HTML pages." Google to find it. - WTV (Windows Texture Viewer) - DDS file viewer which "was developed for simple and fast DDS viewing, escpecially for those DDS files with alpha channel." Available on nVidia's web site.And probably a lot more.Best regards.Luis

Thanks Luis,One of the program links helped to identify the file much quicker than if I was trying to locate it by removing textures. It was named taxi_concrete.bmp but didn't look like concrete. Maybe red concrete if there are any airports with red taxiways. I appreciate your help.Jim D.

I forgot to mention, Jim, for anybody that is interested that nVidia has a shell extension (the DDS Thumbnail Viewer) that adds itself to Windows Explorer and allows DDS files to be viewed in thumbnail display within any Explorer window:So that it becomes possible to view normal bitmaps, JPG and DDS image files quite easily. Doesn't work with unwrapped DXT or old raw R8 images, though.Best regards.Luis