Am having problems with all lights including runway and plane beacon and strobe lights having black boxes covering the light. Have tried deleting and re-installing textures for days with no luck. I have been using REX 2 with no problems. Doesn't seem to matter as to which aircraft or which scenery. I know I have seen this addressed before but have had no luck searching the forum. Any help would be greatly appreciated.FSX deluxe sp2I-7 2.8gz12gb RAM2 TB HD

Are you saying the black boxes remain there or disappear after a short time?

They remain. Even blink with the strobes.

Check in your sim's ..EffectsTexture folder for the filedate of fx_2.bmp...it should be 7/26/2006 8:41 PMIt is most likely to either be missing entirely, or has been replaced by some addon or another. I really, REALLY hate when default files are replaced and/or deleted!

They remain. Even blink with the strobes.

That is a symptom of a missing or corrupted fx (effects) file. Have a look at the aircraft.cfg file ofa plane that exhibits the "black boxes" and note the name of the fx file(s) in the Lights section.Then find that file in you Effects folder, open the file with Notepad and search for occurancesof ".bmp". Note the name(s) of any bmp files that are referenced.One of these will be missing or corrpted in the "texture" folder within the "Effects" folder.Those are small files so someone could easily email the missing/corrupt file to you as an attachment.Most likely some addon that you installed recently was the culprit in causing this issue. Thisis a common occurrence. Paul

Paul, ALL (default) fx lights use the fx_2.bmp texture.

Thanks for the help, Checked the fx_2.bmp file and the date is correct. Checked them all and nothing out of place. Will continue to dig around. This affects ALL Planes not just some. Again, Thanks for your help.

Back in the 90's, this was a problem with Nvidia drivers. Reason I switched to ATI. Try updating DirectX and video card driver. I still see the black boxes flash when a light first comes in range.Dave

Paul, ALL fx lights use the fx_2.bmp texture.

That is true for default FSX aircraft lights, Bill. However not ALL lights use that texture :)fx_WOS_B377_lights_1.bmpAs one example.But whenever the lights texture "goes missing" it is most likely the fx_2.bmp that some rogue installer has PORKED. Paul

That is true for default FSX aircraft lights, Bill. However not ALL lights use that texture :)

Point taken, Paul. I've edited my post to insert (default) to make my intended meaning more clear. Since the OP specified all aircraft, I simply assumed that it was possibly the default fx_2.bmp that may have been the proximate cause.

Thanks for the help, Checked the fx_2.bmp file and the date is correct. Checked them all and nothing out of place. Will continue to dig around. This affects ALL Planes not just some. Again, Thanks for your help.

For the next diagnostic step, try turning down all sliders to reduce the load on the sim's display engine. It may simply be that there is too much data being shoved through the pipe to the video card.