Hi there,A bit of a weird one this, have never seen it before the other day and I don't recall it happening with any other add-on.I've also ran about 20 different searches on the forum before posting, just in case - but to no avail.In the past week I have upgraded from the first hotfix of the NGX800/900 to SP1b and immediately started noticing graphical issues in the VC which would be completely random - but would start within the first minute of the session.Basically it looks like "bits" of the VC texture will shoot out into a "bar", straight through the VC - which could be any direction. When it's really bad it's a bit like (I would imagine!) being inside the box of swords in the magicians act, you know?It's really frustrating and offputting, as even if I try to ignore it sometimes one of the "bars" can be in the way of one of the dials on the MCP, totally ruining the experiecne and forcing me to come out of the session and try to start again.The only two things that I can think of that would have been changes to the environment would have been:1.) Installing SP1b (as Administrator)2.) Letting REX Overdrive do it's very first "let me do everything" routine (having installed it a couple of months ago and not using it yet.)3.) I immediatley restored my FSX textures back to default from the backup as I was seeing wierd nightime blue shimmering textures that looked awful (DirectX 10 maybe?) and I haven't used it since.4.) Installed the 600 having bought it, but not installed it yet. I have not used it yet either.I've reinstalled the NGX800 and patched it again to SP1b but I am still seeing this problem, although not *quite* as bad as the other day.I am perplexed and wonder if anyone has seen this before or might have some idea about what may have caused it? Is this a known-issue with SP1b for example?Specs:Windows 2008 R2 Standardi5 2300 @ 3.0Ghz8GB RamGTX560Everything installed "as Administrator"I can provide a screenshot in a further post if anyone wants/needs to actually see what I am talking about.Thanks very much for any input you may have.Kind regards,James Gillies

I am going to update my nVidia drivers to the latest version to see if that makes any difference, or at the very least eliminate drivers.285.62-desktop-win7-winvista-64bit-international-whqlI can also confirm that this occurs when either in full screen or windowed mode.I use TrackIR for head movements, and although I have literally just upgraded to TrackIR 5 this week I saw this whilst still using TracKIR 4.Essentially random peices of the gauges come "shooting" out in a straight line.Update: When switching to windows mode I saw the same issues with standard FSX textures outside of the VC for a few seconds, then it sorted itself out.Very strange indeed. I will keep investigating.Kind regards,James Gillies

Hi there,A bit of a weird one this, have never seen it before the other day and I don't recall it happening with any other add-on.I've also ran about 20 different searches on the forum before posting, just in case - but to no avail.In the past week I have upgraded from the first hotfix of the NGX800/900 to SP1b and immediately started noticing graphical issues in the VC which would be completely random - but would start within the first minute of the session.Basically it looks like "bits" of the VC texture will shoot out into a "bar", straight through the VC - which could be any direction. When it's really bad it's a bit like (I would imagine!) being inside the box of swords in the magicians act, you know?It's really frustrating and offputting, as even if I try to ignore it sometimes one of the "bars" can be in the way of one of the dials on the MCP, totally ruining the experiecne and forcing me to come out of the session and try to start again.The only two things that I can think of that would have been changes to the environment would have been:1.) Installing SP1b (as Administrator)2.) Letting REX Overdrive do it's very first "let me do everything" routine (having installed it a couple of months ago and not using it yet.)3.) I immediatley restored my FSX textures back to default from the backup as I was seeing wierd nightime blue shimmering textures that looked awful (DirectX 10 maybe?) and I haven't used it since.4.) Installed the 600 having bought it, but not installed it yet. I have not used it yet either.I've reinstalled the NGX800 and patched it again to SP1b but I am still seeing this problem, although not *quite* as bad as the other day.I am perplexed and wonder if anyone has seen this before or might have some idea about what may have caused it? Is this a known-issue with SP1b for example?Specs:Windows 2008 R2 Standardi5 2300 @ 3.0Ghz8GB RamGTX560Everything installed "as Administrator"I can provide a screenshot in a further post if anyone wants/needs to actually see what I am talking about.Thanks very much for any input you may have.Kind regards,James Gillies

Hi There,I had something similar (not with the introduction of any SP) and more outside than VC; but mine did affect VC.What I did: reduce my use of bufferpools - even went to usepools=0 and the problem went.May be worth trying?ThanksCarl Beeby

Edited February 19, 201214 yr by blocks_off

Hi Carl,Thanks for your reply, I just had a nightmare!My Nvidia driver started crashing every 20 seconds or so whilst it was running in the background, and I couldn't even get the screenshot posted before it crashed completely and I had to hit the power button!I've just stripped the machine and checked for a build-up of dust - expecting a heat issue or a dead graphics card. (It was clean as a babys bottom, have dusted the fans anyway to remove all traces of dust - the machien is less than four months old.)Am back up and running now, I've now attached the screenshot. This is an example of it being particularly bad.Thanks again, I will look into adjusting the buffer pools as you suggest.Kind regards,James Gillies

Edited February 19, 201214 yr by JimboG

Hey James- I was having the same problems. Thought the card was dying, blew out the dust and reseat of the card seemed to fix mine... Good luck!

Hi Carl,Thanks for your reply, I just had a nightmare!My Nvidia driver started crashing every 20 seconds or so whilst it was running in the background, and I couldn't even get the screenshot posted before it crashed completely and I had to hit the power button!I've just stripped the machine and checked for a build-up of dust - expecting a heat issue or a dead graphics card. (It was clean as a babys bottom, have dusted the fans anyway to remove all traces of dust - the machien is less than four months old.)Am back up and running now, I've now attached the screenshot. This is an example of it being particularly bad.Thanks again, I will look into adjusting the buffer pools as you suggest.Kind regards,James Gillies

You haven't mentioned GPU temps at the time of the screenshot, so I'll ask: Are you monitoring temps? You need to with that kind of artifacting. Dust isn't the only culprit in overheats.Also, are you using the highmemfix=1 tweak? (you should be)

Delete the fsx.cfg file and try again. Follow this guidehttp://www.simforums...topic29041.html

I don't think all of that is necessary. A lot of the junk he has people do is redundant and pointless. Install the sim, update it, tweak the .cfg and go. (But if you think it works for you!..)

Edited February 19, 201214 yr by ZachLW

looks like a memory leaking problem try sliding your settings down abit to see if it fixes the problem

Re: Hey James- I was having the same problems. Thought the card was dying, blew out the dust and reseat of the card seemed to fix mine... Good luck!@ Buddy2 - Thanks for the advice - this is exactly what I did. The inside of the machine was really clean but there was the very beginnings of dust buildup on the fan blades of the card. So I took the card out, feather dusted the whole machine, paying particular attention to the graphics card, reseatced it and then put it back together. When I fired it up it seemed to be "OK". So today (Sunday morning) I will fire up FSX again and see what happens, fingers crossed!Re: Delete the fsx.cfg file and try again. Follow this guidehttp://www.simforums...topic29041.html@ Gear Up and Off - I will bear this in mind certainly, however I have been using the "******* Tweak" to build my fsx.cfg files historically. In terms of add-on scenery I have very little to be honest, it's something I have been looking to do more with.Re: You haven't mentioned GPU temps at the time of the screenshot, so I'll ask: Are you monitoring temps? You need to with that kind of artifacting. Dust isn't the only culprit in overheats.Also, are you using the highmemfix=1 tweak? (you should be)@ ZachLW - Was I monitoring temps? Yes, sort of! Having used GPU-Z a few times my temps have been around 40C and the CPU has been around 35C. I use the Intel Turbo Boost feature on the board to get 3.0Ghz out of the 2.8Ghz chip. To be fair, I don't do any extreme o/cing or anything like that - this machine is a stepping-stone to the "big one" - it's only supposed to run iTunes across the network for Apple TV and so on! LOLI will certainly keep an eye on the temperatures if this starts happening again.I can confirm that I am using the highmemfix=1 tweak, it is included in the ******* tweak I applied.Re: looks like a memory leaking problem try sliding your settings down abit to see if it fixes the problem@ Pete_auau - Thanks Pete, I will check it out if it happens again.One final point I will make is that the machine isn't really taxed when using FSX and I will get 25-40fps with standard textures at 1680x1050x32 - BUT:1.) MS Flight would put much more load on the GPU with no impact on temperatures that I would notice. (And I was getting more than 25fps!)2.) Encoding movies in Handbrake would max out all four cores whilst encoding - which it could do for several hours at a time without issue or overheats.So.... given that Windows itself was complaining that the Nvidia driver was crashing out I will stay focussed on keeping the card happy and clean and watch what apps I am using and how I using them when it happens..... if it happens again.I'll post any further updates as is prudent.Thanks again to all of you for the assistance.Kind regards,James Gillies

Re: Hey James- I was having the same problems. Thought the card was dying, blew out the dust and reseat of the card seemed to fix mine... Good luck!@ Buddy2 - Thanks for the advice - this is exactly what I did. The inside of the machine was really clean but there was the very beginnings of dust buildup on the fan blades of the card. So I took the card out, feather dusted the whole machine, paying particular attention to the graphics card, reseatced it and then put it back together. When I fired it up it seemed to be "OK". So today (Sunday morning) I will fire up FSX again and see what happens, fingers crossed!Re: Delete the fsx.cfg file and try again. Follow this guidehttp://www.simforums...topic29041.html@ Gear Up and Off - I will bear this in mind certainly, however I have been using the "******* Tweak" to build my fsx.cfg files historically. In terms of add-on scenery I have very little to be honest, it's something I have been looking to do more with.Re: You haven't mentioned GPU temps at the time of the screenshot, so I'll ask: Are you monitoring temps? You need to with that kind of artifacting. Dust isn't the only culprit in overheats.Also, are you using the highmemfix=1 tweak? (you should be)@ ZachLW - Was I monitoring temps? Yes, sort of! Having used GPU-Z a few times my temps have been around 40C and the CPU has been around 35C. I use the Intel Turbo Boost feature on the board to get 3.0Ghz out of the 2.8Ghz chip. To be fair, I don't do any extreme o/cing or anything like that - this machine is a stepping-stone to the "big one" - it's only supposed to run iTunes across the network for Apple TV and so on! LOLI will certainly keep an eye on the temperatures if this starts happening again.I can confirm that I am using the highmemfix=1 tweak, it is included in the ******* tweak I applied.Re: looks like a memory leaking problem try sliding your settings down abit to see if it fixes the problem@ Pete_auau - Thanks Pete, I will check it out if it happens again.One final point I will make is that the machine isn't really taxed when using FSX and I will get 25-40fps with standard textures at 1680x1050x32 - BUT:1.) MS Flight would put much more load on the GPU with no impact on temperatures that I would notice. (And I was getting more than 25fps!)2.) Encoding movies in Handbrake would max out all four cores whilst encoding - which it could do for several hours at a time without issue or overheats.So.... given that Windows itself was complaining that the Nvidia driver was crashing out I will stay focussed on keeping the card happy and clean and watch what apps I am using and how I using them when it happens..... if it happens again.I'll post any further updates as is prudent.Thanks again to all of you for the assistance.Kind regards,James Gillies

hope it works out for ya let us know what fixed it for you.

Thats just the roll cage, for times like this :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnUSdIGxmZY :(

LOL! Very good!As it happens I *think* everything is back to normal now..... phew!I've left it running for a good couple of hours, tweaked my FSUIPC about 20 times, been in and out of Full Screen a dozen times and have used TrackIR all the while. Not a single artifact.I'll chalk it down to the card needing to be re-seated and a quick dusting.Thanks again!Kind regards,James Gillies

Edited February 19, 201214 yr by JimboG