Hi guys, as I posted earlier, I too have had some real problems with this. However, I can report that due to some general tweaking of FSX and specific tweaking in the NGX this problem is now virtually vanished fro my flying. The texture loading now is so quick that it is not an issue. I will share some of the things that I have done over the past weeks to virtually eradicate things. Forgive me if I am stating the obvious, but nevertheless, these are the changes I've made, no matter how simple, but all together I have never enjoyed flying the NGX so much.1) Uninstalled my current driver and reinstalled IMPORTANT only checking the driver to be installed, none of the other crap (sorry guys if this is obvious, but this makes a massive difference to smoothness)2) Regardless of what has been said about installing the SP over the top of the existing install, I went ahead and uninstalled all of NGX, booted FSX flew, closed doiwn and then reinstalled the NGX. Only the original. Then flew in FSX. Closed down, installed SP1, flew in FSX, closed down. Then installed SP1b, flew in FSX closed down and installed liveries. I know some will say all this is unnecessary, but I'm just saying how I have done things.3) Open the NGX performance manager options and select low res VC textures. I know this may go against the grain fellas, but it makes a huge difference and to be honest, the instruments and panels are still hi res, it's only the surrounding textures that are affected.4) This is a big one. Stick with me on this one, 'cos I fought against it forever. Lock framerates at 25 with no outside limiter. If you are running unlimited frames then IMO this will affect the loading of the VC more than anything else you try.5) I spent weeks tweaking the cfg, but the two values affect texture loading immensely. I set TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULTIPLIER=2500 (make this value whatever your framerate, so if running at 26 frames make the value 2600, these are my values) and TexturMaxLoad=10. These two values work together and it may be that you have to make many tests to get them to wotk well. Whatever changes you make, make them one at a time and values of 1 for the TML and values of 10 for theTBM. Once again, I'm not advocating anything, simply stating the changes I have made.6) Nvid inspector settings, this will be dependent like the cfg values, but probably more so on what rig you're using, but for info my settings are: 8xs (combined 1x 2ss + 4xMS) and 2x Sparse Grid SupersamplingYou could also try the infamous: AA_MODE_METHOD_SUPERVCAA_64X_6v12 which I am getting great results from but very dependent on your GPU.7) Finally, the good old Autogen, which I don't need to explain here, but one thing I have discovered in FSX, is that it's often the obvious things that we disregard. So, if flying the NGX I never have the AG set at anything other than normal. fullstop, regardless of where I'm flying. Reason is simple, if your flying an airliner, AG is of lot less importance than if you are flying at lower altitudes in Orbx territitory, I then fly with very dense AG. The NGX is different, it is a very CPU hungry beast, so why push the AG when flying at 25000' when you could use those resources for texture loading.Anyway, as I said, some obvious stuff here, but I wanted to share these changes I made with you, 'cos they have impacted greatly with my enjoyment of, not only the NGX, but also FSX as a whole :(

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Edited January 14, 201214 yr by Rockliffe

I have a low end machine but the NGX does run very well. At least until I turn short finals for Sydney or any major Australian airport and then the winglets disappear as does half the outer skin of the ac. Can I set textures to something lower to avoid the skeleton effect? And where would I set it?GerryEdit - I think Howard may have fixed it for me - will give point 3 a try.

Edited January 29, 201214 yr by engwerda

Can I set textures to something lower to avoid the skeleton effect? And where would I set it?Gerry

Hi,Yes you can... I have too a low end machine + Windows XP 32. I solved the skeleton and OOM(s) problems. I did it with DXTbmp and GIMP2 program (I have not PhotoShop), the textures are now in 1024 and all is fine.Regards,Richard Portier

Edited January 29, 201214 yr by DrumsArt

how do you find the cfg. file. Because I have problems with all of the above and can't start the bird up. I have all of the 737's

how do you find the cfg. file. Because I have problems with all of the above and can't start the bird up. I have all of the 737's

Fist open control panel, go to folder options and enable "show hidden files and folders"In win7 the path is C:UsersYour nameappdataroamingmicrosoftfsxOr you can click the start button and do a file search.

I Just Swapped S Shift +S Views to give that Texture that Nano Sec to Load its alot easier because that was bugging me as well

Howard,Point three - the performance manager for the NGX did the trick - same flight, same time, same conditions, no skeleton frames at all on the final run into Sydney.ThanksGerry

Howard,Point three - the performance manager for the NGX did the trick - same flight, same time, same conditions, no skeleton frames at all on the final run into Sydney.ThanksGerry

Hey, I'm really pleased. I know it's an obvious thing to do, but my experience is that it's often the obvious things that go unnoticed, until someone mentions the obvious. I was surprised just how quicker textures load too.

Ever since i installed ******* Bojote's Shader Mod3 and set up my cfg to run the Bufferpool use pool =0 i have had no issues with any skeleton at all and also no problems with stutters ....