Dear Friends,I had posted this question on the designers forum, but did not get any answers. I sincerely hope that someone here can help me.I have been having some problems with the way my aircraft (all of them), and indeed some of the buildings display in FS2002. I was wondering if anyone had experienced something similar. and knew how to fix it.The problem is that sometimes, the aircraft look transparent. For example with the default 737, when this happens, I can see the main gear in the body when I look at it from above.Or I can see the far side wing, through the body when I view it from one side.With the Project Airbus aircraft, i can see all the seats in the cabin and so on.Please help if you know what could be wrong.Thanks in advance.NB: I tried to upload some screen shots, but they were rejected because of the size.

System specs and drivers?Allcott

If you have upgraded your video card driver recently, try rolling back to the previous set. What may be happening is that your rig is seeing reflective alpha channels as transparency. Before you roll back, try turning off AIRCRAFT REFLECTIONS in the OPTIONS/DISPLAY/AIRCRAFT menu to test that.Mark "Dark Moment" Beaumonthttp://www.swiremariners.com/newlogo.jpg

Thank you for the responses.. I will try this.As for the system specs requested by the other gentleman, I do not know offhead honestly.... I will have to crosscheck that when I go home.

Mr "Dark Moment" Contrary to your name, you have just brightened my day!!!The suggestion of disabling the aircraft relections seemed to fix the problems.I have now reverted to the original driver that came with the graphics card: By the way the card is an NVIDIA GeForce 4 Mx420 (PCI card by Gainward). It has 64Mb of RAM. My computer is an AMD Athlon 2400+ (2Ghz) and I have 1Ghz of SDRAM.After going back, the problems seemed to have gone, even with aircraft relections enabled.Before I did this, I disabled the aircraft reflections as you sugested.The driver that I had (the one causing the problems)before I reverted to the very old version is Nvidia version 5.2.1.6, dated 06-Oct-2003.The old version to which I have reverted is Nvidia version 2.9.8.0, dated 24-May-2002.Needless to say I would have loved to keep this new driver, if not for this anomaly. There are more functions available.Plesae could you kindly advise me on what driver I should try, (assuming you know) or in general how to make the best out of my setup.I am running FS2002pro by the way.Thanks is advance.

Hi EjiroI'm glad you have your reflections back, at least.I guessed what your problem might be but I am no expert whatsoever on which drivers are best for which card. Others might know, or you could hunt around a bit on the computer sites on the internet. I doubt that 52.16 is necessary for your card, actually. Since 29.80, however, there have been 30.30, 30.82, 30.87, 40.41, 41.09, 44.03 and 45.23, and beyond yours there is now 53.03! These are the certified Nvidia drivers that I know of, there may well be more!In my own experience 30.82 were marvellous and 44.03 seemed pretty good too. I run an old card so I don't think the latest versions do anything for me (my card is not DirectX9 compliant) but I am currently running 52.16. Occasionally I have had the problem you mention, though. All I do when it occurs - which is rarely - is simply load another aircraft and then return to the original. That usually sorts the problem, but I may well go back to earlier drivers myself shortly. Mark "Dark Moment" Beaumonthttp://www.swiremariners.com/newlogo.jpg

Thank You very much Sir!! You say you are no expert, but you've pretty much given me the run down I needed. Now I am going driver hunting. I hope that I can find these old drivers to download.Thank you once again, and best regardsEJ

That's easy, Ejiro ... www.nvidia.com.Look for DOWNLOAD DRIVERS, pick your card type and operating system and that will show you the latest driver. On the left, you'll see DRIVER ARCHIVE. They're all there.Mark "Dark Moment" Beaumonthttp://www.swiremariners.com/newlogo.jpg