Up to about an Hour from when this was posted, My Flightsim was Just fine but all of a sudden, These annoying Cloud Textures came and ruined my fun.Any Help would be Appreciated

Up to about an Hour from when this was posted, My Flightsim was Just fine but all of a sudden

Did you (by any chance) install any 'shader' mods lately? or a new swarmcloud.fx file in your shader folder? the only explanation I havefor those screenshots is that you installed a modified swarmcloud.fx in your shader folder and forgot the ALLOW_SHADER_30=1 line in the [GRAPHICS] section.

Alternatively have you installed any new cloud textures recently?If you have, try restoring the defaults and see what happens.

This might work to help with (but maybe not cure) those blocky clouds. Do this: Go 'World' then 'Weather' then ck bullet is on 'User Defined' and then go 'Custom' then 'Advanced' and DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING but just do 'OK', 'OK', 'OK' (3 ok's) to back out of there and go see if there is any improvement. When I first load FSX I always have those 'imposter' clouds (dark gray blobs) showing. After I do the above they are GONE. Don't ask me to explain it. Maybe ******* can enlighten us as to what this 'really' does or what gets 're-set'. But do remember you heard it here first (and who told you-ha).CBNapamule

Did you (by any chance) install any 'shader' mods lately? or a new swarmcloud.fx file in your shader folder? the only explanation I havefor those screenshots is that you installed a modified swarmcloud.fx in your shader folder and forgot the ALLOW_SHADER_30=1 line in the [GRAPHICS] section.

I have installed new shader mods and i have added the ALLOW_SHADER line in my cfg, Heres what it looks like from the top[JOBSCHEDULER]AFFINITYMASK=12[GRAPHICS]ALLOW_SHADER_30=1SHADER_CACHE_VERSION=9872430HIGHMEMFIX=1SHADER_CACHE_PRIMED_10=1693458478SHADER_CACHE_PRIMED=1693458478D3D10=0TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=1024NUM_LIGHTS=8AIRCRAFT_SHADOWS=1AIRCRAFT_REFLECTIONS=1COCKPIT_HIGH_LOD=1LANDING_LIGHTS=1AC_SELF_SHADOW=0EFFECTS_QUALITY=1GROUND_SHADOWS=0TEXTURE_QUALITY=3IMAGE_QUALITY=0See_Self=1Text_Scroll=1HIGHMEMFIX=1STALE_BUFFER_THRESHOLD=2147483647[sOUND]AmbientUIMusicVolume=-6.000000PrimaryDevice={DEF00000-9C6D-47ED-AAF1-4DDA8F2B5C03}VoiceDevice={DEF00002-9C6D-47ED-AAF1-4DDA8F2B5C03}SOUND=1SOUND_QUALITY=2SOUND_LOD=0UISound=1AmbientUI=0SOUND_FADER1=0.500000SOUND_FADER2=0.500000SOUND_FADER3=0.500000SOUND_FADER4=0.500000AmbientUIMusic=FSX01[Display]ChangeTime=4.000000TransitionTime=4.000000ActiveWindowTitleTextColor=255,255,255ActiveWindowTitleBackGroundColor=0,28,140,64NonActiveWindowTitleTextColor=255,255,255NonActiveWindowTitleBackGroundColor=24,33,87,64InfoUpperRightTextColor=255,0,0InfoUpperRightBackGroundColor=0,0,0,0InfoLowerLeftTextColor=255,255,255InfoLowerLeftBackGroundColor=255,0,0,128InfoLowerRightTextColor=255,255,255InfoLowerRightBackGroundColor=255,0,0,128InfoBrakesEnable=TrueInfoParkingBrakesEnable=TrueInfoPauseEnable=TrueInfoSlewEnable=TrueInfoStallEnable=TrueInfoOverspeedEnable=TrueBLOOM_EFFECTS=0SKINNED_ANIMATIONS=1TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=40UPPER_FRAMERATE_LIMIT=0WideViewAspect=FalseTextureMaxLoad=9[Main]FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.75DisablePreload=1User Objects=Airplane, HelicopterSimObjectPaths.0=SimObjects\AirplanesSimObjectPaths.1=SimObjects\RotorcraftSimObjectPaths.2=SimObjects\GroundVehiclesSimObjectPaths.3=SimObjects\BoatsSimObjectPaths.4=SimObjects\AnimalsSimObjectPaths.5=SimObjects\MiscSimObjectPaths.6=MyTraffic\AircraftProcSpeed=6772PerfBucket=7Maximized=1Location=124,97,1156,863,\\.\DISPLAY1HideMenuNormal=0HideMenuFullscreen=1

I have installed new shader mods and i have added the ALLOW_SHADER line in my cfg, Heres what it looks like from the top

Delete the following lines from your fsx.cfg:SHADER_CACHE_VERSION=9872430SHADER_CACHE_PRIMED_10=1693458478SHADER_CACHE_PRIMED=1693458478and try again. If it doesn't work, try deleting the cache manually. its in %AppData%\Local\Microsoft\FSX\Shaders

Delete the following lines from your fsx.cfg:SHADER_CACHE_VERSION=9872430SHADER_CACHE_PRIMED_10=1693458478SHADER_CACHE_PRIMED=1693458478and try again. If it doesn't work, try deleting the cache manually. its in %AppData%\Local\Microsoft\FSX\Shaders

I Tried both and None worked...Normally, Before i had this problem, The clouds would start out like this... and then maybe 3 or 4 seconds later, change into normal clouds...But now ... it won't changeWould switching to DX10 solve anything?

Would switching to DX10 solve anything?

Try it.But it appears you swarmcloud.fx file is missing or corrupted. (DX10 uses another one called swarmcloud40.fx) What kind of Video card you have?

Try it.But it appears you swarmcloud.fx file is missing or corrupted. (DX10 uses another one called swarmcloud40.fx) What kind of Video card you have?

I run an XFX ATI Radeon 4650 HD 1 GB Memory

I run an XFX ATI Radeon 4650 HD 1 GB Memory

Try reverting the clouds to Shader model 1.1 (as they were originally) to do that, simply go to the Shaders backup folder you made, and look inside misc, take the swarmcloud.fx file you'll find there and copy it to your current ShadersHLSL folder (inside misc too)then, delete the shader cache and try again if this doesn't work, then you have some weird problem I've not seen before. See the poster who recommends you to change something in the weather screen.

simply go to the Shaders backup folder you made

heh...looks like a Reinstall is Required.. :(

informis,Looks like you have duplicate line: 'HIGHMEMFIX=1'. Don't know what that would do to your 'clouds' but it's no correct. Just pointing it out.CBNapamule

informis,Looks like you have duplicate line: 'HIGHMEMFIX=1'. Don't know what that would do to your 'clouds' but it's no correct. Just pointing it out.CBNapamule

Ah... I didn't See that...Well it might be a bit late to fix it, I already Reinstalled FSXBut thanks for pointing it out.