Shalom and greetings all my pals,For first time in 4 years, all my planes are whole black or half black or have black wings. Never happened to me before. I did not make any changes to FSX settings.Pleas assist.The specs for my laptop are:HP Pavilion DV6885E Special Edition laptop with T8100 Centrino Duo Core 2.10 GHZ with 3 GB ram, 250 GB, 256 mb NVIDIA GeForce 8400 M GS, 1248x800 resolution, and Vista PremiumI am using FSX without SP1 and SP2.Thanks,Aharon

Install SP1 & SP2 as there are numerous bug fixes and performance improvements and check to see if DX10 is enabled. If so try disabling it.

Shalom and greetings all my pals,While I still have absolutely no idea where to find DX10 to deactivate, I had decided to uninstall recently installed FSX freeware TBPB Barbados international airport scenery and then used two FSX Deluxe cds to activate automatic repair function that did 20 minutes worth of repairing to my FSX.Presto my planes are now showing colorful textures as normal and I hope it would remain forever.Meanwhile I am going to spend next 7 days rigorously testing FSX and freeware planes to be sure there is nothing wrong.Pssst psst I do not think I have DX10 or even DX9 considering the fact I cannot even find it on my FSX or even on my laptop LOLRegards,Aharon

Aharon, in any case you need to have FSX SP2 or Acceleration installed, many aircraft do not work without it.

...While I still have absolutely no idea where to find DX10 to deactivate

It's called "DX10 Preview" in the main configuration screen you can access via the menu bar.

Pssst psst I do not think I have DX10 or even DX9

All PCs/laptops running WinXP onwards have DX9, and if running Vista/7, also DX10.Cheers,- jahman.