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Annoying random grey screen

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Hello everyone,I'll try to explain my problem as clearly as possible, as I've got no idea what can be causing it (and I consider myself an advanced FSX user...)The thing is: I've got many addons in my FSX; loads of addon airports, addon aircraft, Radar Contact V4, Active Sky Evolution using Real Environment Extreme 2 textures, and some other stuff i don't remember. A few days ago, a strange thing began to happen:At some point of the simualtion (maybe 2 seconds after loading the airplane, maybe 10 minutes after) my whole screen becomes ALMOST grey; but just almost, because I can see some of the strongest lights from the airplane and outside. The 2D cabin instruments show up as well, and if I switch the view to another it will show up normally for half a second, and then the grey stuff comes in again.Funny part: I've got a fixed view in London Stansted (for recording purposes), which means that if I'm in Barcelona Airport and I switch views, one of them will be London Stansted. Well, when that grey screen thing happens, it happens only with the views at my current location, London Stansted shows up just fine.... (until I move there LOL)Thank you

Hi - Have you made any changes to your FSX.cfg, or added a new aircraft? After using bojote's mod's I tried the PMDG JS41 and I saw snowy artifacts on the display, I quickly remedied the issue by pulling the Texture resolution back from 7cm to a more modest setting. Without knowing what your hardware setup is I am going to have to guess and say that it could be a GPU or driver issue, or a combination of the two or perhaps you have made changes to your FSX.cfg and your GPU cannot handle the added stress. What leads me to believe it may be your video card is that your fixed view at Stanstead looks fine because you are not taxing it with the aircraft as it is not in that particular area and yet at the same time your display looks grey when you switch back to the aircraft.It could also be that your memory is beginning to fail and you can check it with MemTestGood luck

\Robert Hamlich/

 

Hi - Have you made any changes to your FSX.cfg, or added a new aircraft? After using bojote's mod's I tried the PMDG JS41 and I saw snowy artifacts on the display, I quickly remedied the issue by pulling the Texture resolution back from 7cm to a more modest setting. Without knowing what your hardware setup is I am going to have to guess and say that it could be a GPU or driver issue, or a combination of the two or perhaps you have made changes to your FSX.cfg and your GPU cannot handle the added stress. What leads me to believe it may be your video card is that your fixed view at Stanstead looks fine because you are not taxing it with the aircraft as it is not in that particular area and yet at the same time your display looks grey when you switch back to the aircraft.It could also be that your memory is beginning to fail and you can check it with MemTestGood luck
I didn't make any changes to FSX.cfg, maybe Real Environment Extreme 2 made them, and I can't remember exactly, but I think the problem began with its installation, and when I replaced the default FSX textures with those. But how could that cause this problem?

Hey people,I discovered a thing that could help: Let's say I make an approach to Stansted and that the problem begins 4nm before touchdown. If I make an Instant Replay of that, everyting is fine until 4nm before touchdown, which means that the problem is somehow related to a time and maybe position dependant factor. Could it be the meteorology combined with my new REX2 textures? Does someone know how to fix it if it was?Thank you

What are you system specs, OS, FSX version...?

MSFS Premium Deluxe Edition; Windows 11 Pro, I9-9900k; Asus Maximus XI Hero; Asus TUF RTX3080TI; 32GB G.Skill Ripjaw DDR4 3600; 2X Samsung 1TB 970EVO; NZXT Kraken X63; Seasonic Prime PX-1000, LG 48" C1 Series OLED, Honeycomb Yoke & TQ, CH Rudder Pedals, Logitech G13 Gamepad 



 

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Uninstall the REX textures and see if that makes a difference. Reinstall and see if that makes a difference. REseat your video card and check the cable to the monitor at both ends.You could also have a video card that's going south. System specs would be nice to know also.

 

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40" 4K Monitor 3840x2160 

Uninstall the REX textures and see if that makes a difference. Reinstall and see if that makes a difference. REseat your video card and check the cable to the monitor at both ends.You could also have a video card that's going south. System specs would be nice to know also.
Thanks everyone, my system specs are:Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 OC to 3.2GHz3GB DDR2 800MHz KingstonNvidia Geforce 8800GT 512MB (G92) (with latest drivers)Soft:MS Windows 7 Ultimate x64MS Flight Simulator X SP2I will also try to unload the textures and uninstall REX2Thank you

Are you using DX10 and Bloom? Because I've had odd colored flashes on the edges and also on the whole screen with DX10 Bloom.

Paul Gluck. StrikingSoftware Beta tester and Aerosoft Beta tester for Santorini X, Dangerous Airports 1 and Antarctica X

 

Synapics Touch Pad, Logitek M305 Mouse, Saitek Cyborg X, Windows 7 64-bit. FSX Acceleration, FS9.1. FSX Utilities: FS Water Configurator, ASE, FSUIPC (Unregistered)

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