December 2, 201114 yr I have recently purchased the FSX version by download and had no issues with it installing or running. I have a couple of questions so of you may be able to help me with.1) I have some strange cockpit textures here and there - dark triangles which flash on and off, generally around the lower engine instrument cluster. I also find that If I pan around in the VC that the rear wall of the cockpit dissappears and your not looking at any structure at all.2) There are no interior cabin view for any of the models, is this one of the features that is not yet functional or ported across to FSX?3) When I installed a couple of other liveries or repaints, they show up nicely but all of them are missing the engines although the cowls are there and the props, the same repaints have opaque cockpit windows in VC mode and cannot be seen through, can anyone recommend what texture files I need to copy across to have engines showing and to fix the view from the VC for these repaints. The authors of the repaints don't indicate whether they are suitable for FSX and I suspect they were for the FS2004 model, in other models I have had converting the bitmaps to DDS formatted files seemed to work but I am not sure about this model.Any advice or assistance would be appreciated.Otherwise, think the model and VC is great.
December 2, 201114 yr Commercial Member I have recently purchased the FSX version by download and had no issues with it installing or running. I have a couple of questions so of you may be able to help me with.1) I have some strange cockpit textures here and there - dark triangles which flash on and off, generally around the lower engine instrument cluster. I also find that If I pan around in the VC that the rear wall of the cockpit dissappears and your not looking at any structure at all.2) There are no interior cabin view for any of the models, is this one of the features that is not yet functional or ported across to FSX?3) When I installed a couple of other liveries or repaints, they show up nicely but all of them are missing the engines although the cowls are there and the props, the same repaints have opaque cockpit windows in VC mode and cannot be seen through, can anyone recommend what texture files I need to copy across to have engines showing and to fix the view from the VC for these repaints. The authors of the repaints don't indicate whether they are suitable for FSX and I suspect they were for the FS2004 model, in other models I have had converting the bitmaps to DDS formatted files seemed to work but I am not sure about this model.Any advice or assistance would be appreciated.Otherwise, think the model and VC is great.Taking your #2 first, yes, the 2D views do not come across to FSX.As for your other two issues, I've never heard anything like these before. The mysterious triangles sound like some sort of video card phenomenon.Is it possible for you to post a screenshot or two of both of these? All of the repaints should work in FSX. Just make sure you do not have DX10 preview enabled. It is incompatible with some textures. Bill Rambow MAAM-SIM www.maam.org
December 2, 201114 yr Author Thanks for the response, I thought the interior views were not yet functional for the FSX model. I will check the DX10 issue as I normally do not have this selected as so many models for FSX are simply incompatible with DirectX 10 graphics. Not sure about the video card issue as I run some of the most complex graphic models around produced by Captain Sim (707 and 727) and have no visual or graphic issues with these aircraft and with frame internal and external running generally have quite smooth FSX operation graphically.The triangle flashes are very quick and hard to capture on a screenshot, I will give it a go. The loss of rear cockpit seems to be related to me using SHIFT+O to pan around the cockpit and moving too quickly, so I now find if I move the mouse slowly they fill in ok but are still a little slow to do so but at least the reappear.There seems to be some missing texture files for the engines, the ones that actually have the internal engine outline are missing or not loading, weird seeing the prop and hub and nacelle and clear sky where the engine should be!. I will cross check the MAAM Sim texture folders with the repaints and see what is what.
December 3, 201114 yr Author The missing textures and opaque window problems have been fixed. The cockpit cabin textures have settled down as well. It would appear the the flickering triangle is a guage issue or incompatibility issue for a WIN7 64 bit and my video card config. Off to do some more digging and fiddling.
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