very odd trees

[patcal 2]

I have attached a JPG I took while sitting PANC. The things in the background are trees. I have had this happen at various places, times & aircraft since I have been messing with FSX. Sometimes they appear & snap away & sometimes like when I was landing at Troutdale this afternoon they never went away. Any ideas? My system is a AMD Phenom II X2 545 with 4gigs DDR3 ram ATI 4670 1meg PCIe video with WinXP Home. Crazy.Pat Callaghan

[patcal 2]

anybody??

[Superpilotv2 2]

Check your grafic driver. Up to date?

[patcal 2]

Check your grafic driver. Up to date?

Latest ATI version 11.2.Pat

[Superpilotv2 2]

OK.Have you installed both service packs for FSX?

[Edspace 0]

Are you using the bufferpools=0 tweak or any other type of tweak? Seem to remember these can cause graphics spikes.

[meshman 109]

Autogen settings are where? Have you tried lowering this to see if the problem goes away? Have you set your XP computer to work with the /3gb VAS fix? Push the system too far and you'll starve the VAS, causing tree-mania like in your picture.

[patcal 2]

The only tweak I have is to shut off the head movement & disable the AUTOGEN.XML file. I do have FSX SP2. I had autogen I believe at dense. I had forgotten about the memory switch. I did it for FS9.EXE when I first got the system in Feb but I will do it now. Thanks for the suggestions. Now I will go try them.Pat

[FlyAndFight 37]

Looks like your video card is getting taxed. Lower the graphic settings further and test it again. Hopefully it's not the video card about to go kaput...

[patcal 2]

So far I edited the FS9.EXE with the 3G switch & lowered my autogen a bit. So far no more spikes but I will do a fairly taxing flight this afternoon.Thanks.Pat

[patcal 2]

Seems to be solved. Flew a few times with no spikes in the trees. Now if I could just get used to flying without a 2D panel. Thanks ro all.Pat Callaghan