I'm not a big addons fan because FSX is beautiful enough straight out of the box, beats me why people think they're supposed to overload it with new scenery and weather packages etc when they don't have to..;)

FSX is notoriously temperamental and adding stuff always carries a risk (think russian roulette), sometimes you get away with it, sometimes not.

Oh please mate this is absolute hilarious... you definitely made my day. I almost fell of the chair laughing..

 

ok please now please back to your vanilla FSX.. there is apparently not much you "miss" of the fantastic add-on's...

It wasn't me who started this thread asking for help because his addon is playing up..;)

It wasn't me who started this thread asking for help because his addon is playing up..;)

 

To our 'newbie' friend, welcome! In fact I've not been around Avsim for very long myself, but it's surprising how soon you make virtual friends, especially if you're a regular contributor. But you

know Kid, if I may call you that, sounds better than Scatterbrain :friends: I think the best way of looking at FSX is to use the old metaphor of a car... I think of FSX as being a bog standard car, straight out off the production line. Sure, it does what it's supposed to do, gets you from A to B in reasonable comfort in a certain amount of time... but, if you want to get somewhere faster, in a more luxurious manner, then you can fork out extra money for a Porsche or Ferrari, or if you prefer, simply tune what you already have and get the best out of it!!

BTW, I see you joined Avsim on my birthday!

 

BTW, sticking with the original issue, the more I think about things the more I think that the adaptive Vsync may be the culprit. I'd be interested in hearing from Word Not Allowed.

BTW, sticking with the original issue, the more I think about things the more I think that the adaptive Vsync may be the culprit. I'd be interested in hearing from Word Not Allowed.

 

I have seen black squares both with and without that adaptive Vsync.

Hey Howard,

 

I mentioned earlier that I also was having difficulty with flashing black rectangles. I have a confession to make. I recently found it necessary to uninstall/reinstall FSX and all my addons. Ater doing so, I forgot to tweak my cfg file. My system has been trying to make due with the vanilla, "out of the box" FSX.cfg file for a couple of months now. OK, now that I've admitted my stupidity I feel a little better. Anyway, That gave me an idea. What would happen if I set up an experiment involving my system, some robust WX, the Orbx Seattle area (pretty burdensome on most systems by itself) and overflew the area at 2500 ft AGL in the Carenado C185 Skywagon ( 110 knts, IAS)documenting the route so I could replicate it?

 

Here's the plan. Set up the above scenario and plug in the default FSX.cfg file. Layer on top of that the following, all running in the background: REX wx engine, MCE, Plan-G and TrackIR-5. This cfg file has no entries involving Bufferpools, Highmemfix, Texture loading, etc. Nothing that Bojote would recommend for a system such as mine. It is absolutely "tweak free".

 

The result? Lots of intermittent flashing black rectangles!

 

Next, set up the same scenario, run the same market basket of background programs and substitute a new FSX.cfg file tweaked by Bojote AND install an external frame limiter pegged to 30 fps while FSX is internally set to unlimited fps.

 

The result? No more flashing black rectangles.

 

I am beginning to suspect the new REX Essentials pgm is simply placing more of a burden our our systems than the old REX2 or REX Overdrive programs did. Don't get me wrong, I very much enjoy the new REX Essentials but everything new and full of bells and whistles comes with a certain price and I am beginning to wonder if there is really nothing "wrong" with this wonderful program - it simply stresses our systems a little more than we all hoped would be the case.

 

Well, enough said. I'll leave it to others much more competent than me to be more specific and introduce more sophisticated tests.

 

John

One thing I have been getting with REX Essentials, is translucent clouds at long range, which looks crap, because you can see the horizon through them. I think I may have sorted it out by knocking off the DXT5 option, but only having just done that, I'll have to wait and see.

 

In regards to the 'newbie' tag Scatterbrain, I think that'll disappear with not many more posts from you, since it is post-count related, as you probably know it is with most forums. You can take that a lot of that post count, forum title and join date stuff with a pinch of salt anyway, I generally do; it says I joined in 2006 for example, and that's cobblers, I had to create a new forum ID in 2006 because of difficulty logging on with a preceding account from some years before that date.

 

Al

I am just thinking out loud here on this. In it's most basic form, it injects a weather system. There a a number of options such as thermals, winds aloft, smoothing and a bunch of other stuff. Which of the weather options would continually take up cpu cycles? Clouds are clouds regardless of whose the are i.e. ASE or REX. It would seem to me someone from REX should be able to figure out why REX seems to offer more of a burden to FSX than ASE as an example. Without understanding what is going on underneath the covers it is just a guessing game. I can clearly tell when REX is injecting and when it is finished, so what the heck is happening after that?

 

Bob

Hey Howard,

 

I mentioned earlier that I also was having difficulty with flashing black rectangles. I have a confession to make. I recently found it necessary to uninstall/reinstall FSX and all my addons. Ater doing so, I forgot to tweak my cfg file. My system has been trying to make due with the vanilla, "out of the box" FSX.cfg file for a couple of months now. OK, now that I've admitted my stupidity I feel a little better. Anyway, That gave me an idea. What would happen if I set up an experiment involving my system, some robust WX, the Orbx Seattle area (pretty burdensome on most systems by itself) and overflew the area at 2500 ft AGL in the Carenado C185 Skywagon ( 110 knts, IAS)documenting the route so I could replicate it?

 

Here's the plan. Set up the above scenario and plug in the default FSX.cfg file. Layer on top of that the following, all running in the background: REX wx engine, MCE, Plan-G and TrackIR-5. This cfg file has no entries involving Bufferpools, Highmemfix, Texture loading, etc. Nothing that Bojote would recommend for a system such as mine. It is absolutely "tweak free".

 

The result? Lots of intermittent flashing black rectangles!

 

Next, set up the same scenario, run the same market basket of background programs and substitute a new FSX.cfg file tweaked by Bojote AND install an external frame limiter pegged to 30 fps while FSX is internally set to unlimited fps.

 

The result? No more flashing black rectangles.

 

I am beginning to suspect the new REX Essentials pgm is simply placing more of a burden our our systems than the old REX2 or REX Overdrive programs did. Don't get me wrong, I very much enjoy the new REX Essentials but everything new and full of bells and whistles comes with a certain price and I am beginning to wonder if there is really nothing "wrong" with this wonderful program - it simply stresses our systems a little more than we all hoped would be the case.

 

Well, enough said. I'll leave it to others much more competent than me to be more specific and introduce more sophisticated tests.

 

John

 

Mmm, I don't really want to go back to OD, but I certainly will if it means I can have my nice smooth FSX back! I'm in Spain at the moment but back on Friday, so the weekend will see me return my setup to pre-Essentials, via my Acronis backup. It will be very interesting.

 

Jfri@. Very interesting...mmm

Oh please mate this is absolute hilarious... you definitely made my day. I almost fell of the chair laughing..

 

ok please now please back to your vanilla FSX.. there is apparently not much you "miss" of the fantastic add-on's...

 

FSX is good out of the box .. the addons make it better.

 

 

FSX is good out of the box .. the addons make it better.

 

I guess it's all down to an individual's expectation

Hmm, very saddened today as I reinstall REX OD, and yes as I expected, all the issues with flashing textures have disappeared. So it would seem that REX essentials is VERY different to OD in more than a few ways. From my perspective the benefits do not outweigh the costs, so I will wait and see. But in the meantime I am still very happy with OD.

Interesting Howard. I have PC specs very similar to yours and I don't see flashing textures with REX ESS. I don't use the Bufferpools tweak only the full screen VSync inspector tweak.

Interesting Howard. I have PC specs very similar to yours and I don't see flashing textures with REX ESS. I don't use the Bufferpools tweak only the full screen VSync inspector tweak.

Hi Dean, sure, I think it's definitely associated with the BufferPools tweak, but without the tweak the sim runs far less smooth and I don't think I want to run FSX without it! I have tried a load of different combinations of cfg tweaks and slider settings, but it seems the only answer is to revert back to OD.

Hmm, very saddened today as I reinstall REX OD, and yes as I expected, all the issues with flashing textures have disappeared. So it would seem that REX essentials is VERY different to OD in more than a few ways. From my perspective the benefits do not outweigh the costs, so I will wait and see. But in the meantime I am still very happy with OD.

 

If this has to do with REX Essential then shouldn't AS2012 be able to do something. It's supposed to have textures. And I have just purchased and installed it.

If this has to do with REX Essential then shouldn't AS2012 be able to do something. It's supposed to have textures. And I have just purchased and installed it.

Sorry jfri, what do you mean when you say shouldn't AS2012 be able to do something?