Hi everyone

 

I purchase my PMDG 737 NGX a few days ago,amazing plane.

The thing is im having a few problems with it,goes from when i change views the screen goes crazy like just goes black and white and stati and then when the screen comes back to normal everything disappears like plae,airport the all nine yards.

,When i minimize same thing happens,when i go to watch a instant replay again sometimes this happens to.

Its getting to the point that im even affraid to change views at all,alot of the times i just have to restart the FS.

The other problem im having to is ion the VC sometimes parts of the cockpit disappears has well.

I have a couple of pictures for you guys to see,if someone can help me with solving this would be great.

This only happens with the PMDG 737 ngx,i have the PMDG 747,MD 11,IFLT,and a bunch of different planes and nothing like this happen.

 

Thanks

Ricky

I used to get the dissapearing cockpit on the MD11 too. Only ever around dusk. Something to do with textures for night and day running simulatneously when the sun is going down. Never fixed it except for when I upgraded my system to my current i5 3570 and GTX680 2GB graphics card with 8GB ram. I see though that you have a similar (even more powerful) system, so maybe there's a driver or tweak somewhere floating around that someone knows about. I know I had to employ some tweaks onto FSX such as highmemfix and so on, maybe one of those types of things did it for me.

The first image with the missing displays looks like your DirectX is switched off in your FSX settings when it should be on. I only know this because this happened to me with both the MD11 and the NGX.

 

Check that your directX drivers are all ok. If you are using Windows 7 it will be DirectX 11 maybe? If you go to the start and type dxdiag it will tell you.

I know I had to employ some tweaks onto FSX such as highmemfix and so on, maybe one of those types of things did it for me.

This tweak, out of the major ones I know, is probably most relevant to your issue, as it helps with aircraft skeleton issues, etc. (some even say that is helps performance!). Adding UIAutomationCore.dll (see Word Not Allowed's Guide) to the FSX main folder can also help with crashes and strange memory issues.

On my first FSX installation on my new PC, I used the standard Windows path (Program Files(x86)), and I had all kinds of problems. Once I deleted everything and installed to its own path, say C:\FSX, all problems went away. Is kind of a pain if you have everything set with sceneries, payware aircraft, etc. But is well worth it. I did it because I read in FS2Crew manual that PMDG recommended to do exactly that.

 

Worth a try.

Yea strange that certain add ons seem to have issues if installed in the default location being (86) program instead of its own root drive

The first image with the missing displays looks like your DirectX is switched off in your FSX settings when it should be on. I only know this because this happened to me with both the MD11 and the NGX.

 

Check that your directX drivers are all ok. If you are using Windows 7 it will be DirectX 11 maybe? If you go to the start and type dxdiag it will tell you.

 

 

I checked all the drivers and all the drivers are all ok,i think the problem its like u had mention, on my FSX the Direct X was turned Off,so far i try with the PMDG 737 for like 30 minutes and its good but im not gonna be all happy yet because i dont want to get dissapointed,i hope this fixed the problem.

 

On my first FSX installation on my new PC, I used the standard Windows path (Program Files(x86)), and I had all kinds of problems. Once I deleted everything and installed to its own path, say C:\FSX, all problems went away. Is kind of a pain if you have everything set with sceneries, payware aircraft, etc. But is well worth it. I did it because I read in FS2Crew manual that PMDG recommended to do exactly that.

 

Worth a try.

 

Before on my old PC i had the FSX installed on Program Files but i had nothing but problems to ,now i have it installed to its own path to C:\FSX,in my opinion its the best way.

Hi

Do you guys have the 'preview DirectX 10' enable on fsx in order to run any PMDG planes?

Do you guys have the 'preview DirectX 10' enable on fsx in order to run any PMDG planes?

I use DirectX 10 in order to improve FSX performance, but it is not required (or possibly even recommended) for PMDG aircraft. Before updating my video card drivers to the latest beta, I did not even have the option, and ran into fewer issues than I do now with DirectX 10. Regardless, in my opinion and on my system, the performance increase brought by DirectX 10 is worth having despite the minor scenery glitches.

I use DirectX 10 in order to improve FSX performance, but it is not required (or possibly even recommended) for PMDG aircraft. Before updating my video card drivers to the latest beta, I did not even have the option, and ran into fewer issues than I do now with DirectX 10. Regardless, in my opinion and on my system, the performance increase brought by DirectX 10 is worth having despite the minor scenery glitches.

 

If i dont have the DX10 enable i have nothing but problems with the PMDG planes,then on the other hand having the DX10 enable i have some issues with some airport add ons that i have.

I spend the last 3 days just going around the forums here and reading so many different tweets, to be honest i dont even know what to do anymore when it comes to this problem. :blink:

Hello

 

I happened that he livery was trasparent and also the cockpit after saving, i solved by removing the program for landclass. However i reinstalled FSX and PMDG .

I use AS 2012. For me it was a conflict between Their. :huh:

 

Paolo

Hi,

 

Do you guys have the 'preview DirectX 10' enable on fsx in order to run any PMDG planes?

 

I don't use the DirectX 10 preview, because as you said it well mess up some AddOn sceneries. Altough it is switched off, the NGX just runs fine on my system.

If i dont have the DX10 enable i have nothing but problems with the PMDG planes,then on the other hand having the DX10 enable i have some issues with some airport add ons that i have.

Have you tried the tweaks I discussed in my previous post? You must also ensure that you have configured FSX correctly for DirectX 10 if you wish to use it (e.g., AA and AF checked in FSX, etc.). There are some fixes for scenery issues available with a quick search/visit to the AVSIM DirectX 10 Forum.

Zowen11 to be honest with you I didn't t try any of the tweakes yet,but for sure I'm gonna try it tonight,I'm just trying to see if there's a way I can run PMDG with DX10 disable.

Im just here wondering why is giving me some problems on my system,it's hard for me to believe that everybody has to do tweaks on FSX in order to run the PMDG planes but I can be wrong.

 

Neo63 I'm gonna try my best not to have to reinstall FSX,I just have to many add ons installed on my system like scenarios and a bunch of more stuff that putting all the time together took me around 3 weeks to get it all done,doing something like that I'm just gonna have to work around it.

Im just here wondering why is giving me some problems on my system,it's hard for me to believe that everybody has to do tweaks on FSX in order to run the PMDG planes but I can be wrong.

HIGHMEMFIX=1 and UIAutomationCore.dll almost always improve the stability of add-ons on all systems. The effects of other performance tweaks are debatable (and hence some tweaks are unnecessary), but these two tweaks are almost universally accepted as essential on all installations other than those of P3D.

 

I know it's difficult to believe that tweaks are necessary for FSX to run stably, but unfortunately, in order to accommodate its outdatedness, they are. It's your choice, but I can assure you that they are safe when used properly (specifically, when UIAutomationCore.dll is downloaded from a reputable source such as Word Not Allowed's Guide) and that trying them is certainly more convenient than having to reinstall completely (after which you will still probably experience similar issues).