Hi Paul, Steve,

First of all 'Happy Holidays' from the Netherlands.

Thank you very much for your efforts in aiding our community in the transition to DX10. Your help has certainly been useful to my FSX setup.

After installing the 3.2.1 shaders I opted for deleting the Shader10 folder, assuming this folder would be rebuilt when re-starting FSX in DX10 mode.

Alas the rebuilding did not occur. As a result I am seeing course textures when starting up my flight of choice and flashing taxi lines on aprons. Performance wise I don't see any loss.

I've done a registry repair which did not help the matter. Do you have any suggestion on how to rebuild this folder?

Much appreciated.

 

Rudy

EHGG

Compliments of the Season, Rudy! I hope you're having a good time! B)

 

Well - I think you're looking in the wrong spot for the folder, Rudy. FSX will not start if it cannot see the cached files in either the Shader (DX9) folder or the Shader10 (DX10) folder. The correct spot is:-

 

C:\Users\{your username here}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\FSX

 

Take a look, and get back to us..

 

All the Best,

 

pj

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the lead. Indeed the wrong spot: I had been looking for the folder in \AppData\Roaming|Microsoft\FSX.

 

Kind regards,

Rudy

Life is Good, once again, Rudy!

 

:LMAO:

Hi Paul I reverted back from DX10 to DX9, but is it better to rebuild the shaders or not?

 

I simply I unchecked DX10 Preview in FSX and edited what I changed in my fsx.cfg and Inspector profile.

 

But in the readme file of Shader 3.2.2, under uninstalling I read:

 

You would need to copy the General10.fx.ORIG to General10.fx and rebuild the shaders

 

I haven't included a script to do this but I may add it if asked.

 

You can disable any of the individual patches by editing PatchOptions.txt in <YourFSXDIR>\ShadersHLSL\General and using

RebuildDx10Shaders.bat - but please post a question before doing this.

 

So my question are:

 

1) under my D:\Flight Simulator X\ShadersHLSL\General have I to do something or not? I haven't an original back up of this folder before installing Shaders 3.2.2, but just now I looked into properties of ShadersHLSL\General and see that last date modified was 21 july 2012, so the patch was not applied. So I have to do nothing, correct?

 

2) under C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\FSX have 2 folder: Shader (DX9) last modified date november 2011 and Shader10 (DX10) last modified date yesterday, so here something has happen. Maybe because I try DX10 Preview in FSX. So may I have to delete Shader10 or leave it?

 

For your interest: now that I reverted back to DX9, FSX runs well without any apparent problem, this is the reason why I ask you if I have to do something.

 

Many thanks for your help,

Riccardo

Hi Ricardo:

 

1). If you did nothing to the DX9 shader code withing the ShadersHLSL folder - then you don't need to do anything to it. Steve's patch only touches the DX10 sections, and that only improves what was there.

 

2). If FSX / DX9 is working just fine - leave those folders alone, too. If there is a shader problem - you will know about it in two seconds flat, as your graphics will be very very messed up!

 

.... so I think you have no problems - ok!

 

All the Best,

Thanks a lot Paul.