I purchased PMDG's MD11 and have had no problems with software with this exception. Whenever I switch to an external view, there are parts of the aircraft that are missing (all three engines, rudder, elevators, pieces of the slats and flaps). I am running windows 7 64 bit. The MD11 model flies perfectly, the only issue is the "missing pieces" when I look at an external view. Any assistance is appreciated!Thanks....Troy

Troy,Can you post your system specs?Potential easy solution though:Have you tried putting the HIGHMEMFIX=1 line into your FSX.cfg in the [GRAPHICS] section?

Troy,Can you post your system specs?Potential easy solution though:Have you tried putting the HIGHMEMFIX=1 line into your FSX.cfg in the [GRAPHICS] section?

Thanks for the suggestion Ryan, I did add HIGHMEMFIX=1 and there was no change, still missing parts of the airplane. This also happens with the 747 (although not as much, it looks like I'm just missing the leading edge of the wing).My system is 64-bit Windows 7, Intel Core 2 quad cpu8gb ramnvidia geforce 9600 GSI also have installed SP1 for FSXif any additional information would help provide a fix, I'll provide it....I love the software...just wish the external views were completeTroy Nicholson

Stupid question, but have you checked the option "andvanced animations" in the fsx settings?Maybe that is going to help.Cheers Paul

i had the same pb: just read thishttp://forum.avsim.net/topic/336280-whats-this/page__p__1986001#entry1986001It solved everything for me.Kaman BA

Troy,Are you running EZDOK? Is it possible that you forgot to run the EZCA Configurator after installing the MD-11?

Thanks for the suggestion Ryan, I did add HIGHMEMFIX=1 and there was no change, still missing parts of the airplane. This also happens with the 747 (although not as much, it looks like I'm just missing the leading edge of the wing).My system is 64-bit Windows 7, Intel Core 2 quad cpu8gb ramnvidia geforce 9600 GSI also have installed SP1 for FSXif any additional information would help provide a fix, I'll provide it....I love the software...just wish the external views were completeTroy Nicholson

1. Make sure you have the latest drivers and DirectX update for you video card.2. Why only SP1 for FSX? You need to install SP2 or Acceleration.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Not sure what's fixed the problem, but here's what I did:Uninstalled all PMDG aircraftUninstalled FSX accelerationUninstalled FSXRemoved all FSX folders remaining (cache files, game folders, etc)Reinstalled FSX to c:/FSX (NOT the default directory)Started FSX to initialize fsx.cfg fileReinstalled FSX acceleration from DVDReinstalled PMDG MD11Reinstalled PMDG 747-400XReinstalled PMDG 747-8i/f All aircraft run and look perfect.Thanks!

Glad to see you got it figured out - installing FSX to its own folder outside the "protected" folders that Vista/7 wants to install it to by default is really key for stopping a lot of these weird issues I think... file permissions problems like that can do all kinds of crazy things.