It has been years...

[EagleSkinner 36]

...since I set up my FSX on the old computer and now I am doing it on a new one.I can get FSX to run, but there are a few planes that don't show their textures (the A2A Piper's VC is mostly transparent for example). Oh and when I select aircraft, sometimes the previews are black. The complete preview window - not the paint. (That one I can remember)Can someone point out my forgotten memories please and suggest which settings need adjusting? Could it be the new Graphics card? It's a GTX 580 and I think it's running DX11 - despite FSX installing DX9.Oh - and I have forgotten where all the good tweaks for the FSX cfg are.Not that I 'need' the tweaks - I am getting very very high FPS. It's just that some of my addon planes don't seem to work as sold.Many thanks for reminders!

[simmerhead 885]

Were you careful installing everything in the right order, run fsx default flight, then exit and reboot windows between each install?

[superglide17 11]

IMHO, here's a good place to start: http://www.simforums.com/forums/topic29041.html

[Bert Pieke 7,591]

Have you got SP2 installed (or Acceleration) ?

[Paul J 349]

This is an important piece, Chris - not sure if you've done it, as you say you are having transparent textures on a few aircraft:- I just cut/pasted this from Nick's guide....

Acceleration takes care of both SP1 and SP2 in one shotIf installing for a 'non' Acceleration with SP2 its the same process except:

After you complete STEP 1, 2 and 3 above, replace STEP 4 with:

Install SP1, boot the sim default flight, close and reboot the computer

Install SP2, boot the sim default flight, close and reboot the computer

[EagleSkinner 36]

Installed FSX then Acceleration then sceneries. The sceneries all work fine. It is just that some of the aircraft have transparent textures / black preview panels.When I last re-installed FSX I did it in the same order and didn't have this. But I have a vague memory that DX9 / DX10 had something to do with this. Thing is, my new graphics card is an nVidia GTX 580 with DX11 - I have no experience there. Are we supposed to remove "11" and install "9"?Thanks so far.

[Paul J 349]

Hi Chris: The 580 is just about the best there is, and is capable of DX11 - which isn't built in to FSX. Neither is DX10. All we have is a preview of an unfinished DX10, in FSX known as "DX10 Preview". It will give a smoother performance, but it will also highlight a number of issues. I expect you have a check-mark inside the box in your settings.

[gmohr 0]

Yeah, turn off DX-10 preview, and see if that fixes your issues. Most FSX flyers don't use the DX10 feature because it is buggy.Regards,G

[Guest firehawk44]

DX10 preview will cause invisible textures if the aircraft was made for FS9 and earlier sims. Also make sure you have highmemfix=1 in the graphics section of your FSX.cfg as this is known to cure black screens.Best regards,Jim

[PingPong 60]

Try Highmem fix as Firehawk said, and rebuild your shaders.

[EagleSkinner 36]

It's extremely strange gents....The graphics card came with Assassins Creed - I had installed that at about the same time as my last (for now) FSX stuff on Thursday or Friday - and that was about the same time as my "troubles" surfaced.I removed AC and what do you know...? Problem solved. Don't ask me why, although I guess the game installer really goes to town on the graphics? Well, whatever, I am back to flying visible aircraft in FSX again. I am getting 25+ FPS steady over high urban areas such as the ORBX Portland freeware / 60/80/100+ over the countryside. Even stuff like Jon Patch's Vancouver, Aerosoft's VFR Germany and similar aren't really slowing my flight enjoyment any.More to the point, I am flying "Sliders Right" across the board (apart from cloud draw 0 (left), traffic 25% and water 1 left of top) on untweaked. Well - trees and buildings have been pushed to 6000 per cell and I have set the affinity mask to 4095 (six core tweak)My old system was pushed to give me 20+ over the countryside with the "******* Tweaks" - although that was good for the system.