Anybody know what causes these scenery flashes and how to cure them? These flashes appear and disapear every few seconds as I am flying. Seems like they started since I installed emma field but that may be just a coincidence. I tried to include a screenshot but it is too big I guess. How can I do that?Don

I can possibly help if you could give a little more detail. For example, what scenery features (e.g. buildings, ground, water etc.) are showing the flashing symptom? Do you see it when stationary on the tarmac, only in flight or both? Do you have clouds? What video card and driver do you have? A screen shot would also help. Can you post a small one please?

Whole blocks of scenery do it land-water -doesn't make any difference. Never when I am on the ground. I fly vfr usually about 2-3 thousand feet. No 3d clouds and not a lot of simple clouds. This am I took off in overcast conditions and rain and it still did it but not as much. G force mx 100/200 card. Drivers 5.13.01 1520. This is something new. I have been flying for a long time with same equipment and this has started last couple days. I tried to send a screenshot but it is too large for here. I don't know how to make it smaller. Tell me how to do it and I will send one.Don

Hope this works, Maybe I figured it out how to insert screenshot.Don

OK. First of all, this appears to be a resoursing issue. Note that your autogen trees appear but the ground texture files don't? That's probably because your hardware is processing other commands and hasn't got around to rendering these files yet. If you hit the ALT key and pause the sim for a few seconds and then hit ALT again, does the land texture render?I would guess that either you have system resourses running in the background that are hogging your resourses (Anti-virus program for example) or your config files need rebuilding. A great little utility that I always use is Ken Salters FSAutoStart. This utility closes background applications before running up the sim. I recommend that you try this first. I consider this a Must Have Utility.If the problem is still there then the problem may be with either your FS9.cfg or scenery.cfg file. I can recall having a very similar problem after loading a new scenery file. The layer structure of the scenery.cfg caused a conflict. I used Richard Bixler's Scenery File Align utility to fix this. It worked well.Finally, you could rebuild your fs9.cfg file. Move it out of the Flight Simulator directory and onto your computer desktop. Then rename it to fs9.old. Also, if you have a fs9.txt file in that directory, please delete it completely. When you open up the sim it will not be able to find the file so it will build you a new one. You will returned to your default settings but that is the best starting point when something has gone wrong. You have the fs9.old file to refer to.Good luck and please let me know if this helped.

I tried the suggestions but none worked. Now I know why. It was my drivers. I installed new drivers and all is well. Thanks for the help even tho it didn't work I appreciate it because you never know until you try what works and that gave me several things to try. I think I will use the fsautostart. Seems to be a good feature. Thanks again.Don:)