Hi there, I recently added a few add-on planes to FSX. An example is Alphasims B-24. When I look at the preview the plane has no skin. I can just see all of the internal detail. When I load the game I get the cockpit but no skin. This has happened on other add-ons. The files were .exe files and have installed into FSX fine. Do I need to move anything around to get skins on these planes?I am playing it on windows 7 64bit and everything else is fine.Any help would be great and really appreciated.Is this a common problem?Sean Lomas

Are they white?If yes, uncheck DX10 preview and do an FSX restart.These are older models with no DX10 support

Hi BartEnder thanks for the reply. They are not so much white as just not there. If I load a B-24 I see the bomb bay all of the cockpit and the pilots floating in mid air. It has happened to quite a few planes by a few manufacturers. Its odd. I'll give your recommendation a go though to see if that helps.Once again thanks for the reply.Sean Lomas

Are they white?If yes, uncheck DX10 preview and do an FSX restart.These are older models with no DX10 support

Add HIGHMEMFIX=1 to your fsx.cfg [GRAPHICS] section and see if that fixes it...

Hi Ryan,Thanks for the great suggestion. Sorry but I am new to all of this. Where would I find the graphics section? Would it just be a line I add to a notepad opened config file and then save?Sorry to be a pain and thanks again.CheersSean

Add HIGHMEMFIX=1 to your fsx.cfg [GRAPHICS] section and see if that fixes it...

fsx.cfg is in C:\Users\(Your Account Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX (open it with notepad) - there's a series of headers in the file that mark the sections, one of them is labeled [GRAPHICS]. Find that and then insert the HIGHMEMFIX=1 line anywhere within that section.If it's not enabled, you may have to go into the Windows folder settings and tell it to show hidden files and folders too btw, AppData is normally hidden.

Hi Ryan,Thank you for that advice. I have given it a go and now I have the movable surfaces showing up just not the rest of the airplanes. Any other ideas? Sorry to bug you on this.CheersSean

fsx.cfg is in C:\Users\(Your Account Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX (open it with notepad) - there's a series of headers in the file that mark the sections, one of them is labeled [GRAPHICS]. Find that and then insert the HIGHMEMFIX=1 line anywhere within that section.If it's not enabled, you may have to go into the Windows folder settings and tell it to show hidden files and folders too btw, AppData is normally hidden.

Have you installed FSX SP2?Some add-ons use textures that won't work with basic FSX RTM.I may be mistaken, but I believe this is due to an increase in permitted texture size