Hi. I am not new to FSX but am new to this forum. I have been running FSX acceleration on my computer for some while, and apart from a few small glitches all worked well.. Unfortunately, originally I had a French version of Windows 7 64 bit. I changed to an English version of Win 7 64 and then p[roceeded to reinstall FSX and all the add ons that I had accumulated. Everything appeared ok until one day while flying close to Dinard in Brittany I saw what appeared to be a curtain or wall of scenery reaching up from the ground to the heavens. It appeared to travel with me and increased in length in front but decreased behind as I travelled. As I was flying IFR at the time I resolved to examine this lated. I did this but could find no apparent reason. I unistalled then reinstalled FSX accleration and checked the scenery again without any add ons. The scenery was perfect. I then reinstalled my add ons, (Iknow I should have checked after each add on installation, but didn't). Of course the problem was back. If you try to fly through then wall you suddenly find yourself at over 50,000 feet, which in a light aircraft causes a few problems. The line seems to run almost exactly north to south, with gaps where there is water or a road running through at ground level. You can fly through the gaps with no adverse affect. It starts at the edge of the sea near St. malo and travels due south towards Rennes. I am not sure iof it reaches Rennes or goes on south from there as I got rather upset by it. I thought one of the causes might have been a crosswind runway that I put in at Bordeaux airport using ADE9X. I have enclosed a screenshot of the fault. I have tried downloading and installing a new terrain mesh for Europe but this has had no effect at all. I would be most grateful of any suggestions (other than reinstalling the whole lot again, because that is the only thing I can think of anyway).

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Did you remove the airport file you edited the runway on?

I am very interested in this issue. I have something similar. The screen shot below is of an area near Palm Springs, California. It is southeast of Palm Springs and may be where the Salton Sea is supposed to be. You can see how similar it is to the issue shown by the OP, NAUJAC. In the case of my screen shot. the scenery issue starts at the surface and extends below the the surface. I have no ideal how far down it extends, and I have not flown over it, just adjacent to it. It does look like water at the bottom of it. I have not edited any airports in the area. The only scenery I have installed that might cover this area is the SoCalBlueSky scenery from BlueSkyScenery.

 

I am with NAUJAC. What could cause these?

 

to the original poster. do not UNINSTALL your scenery, but rather just turn them all off (uncheck them in the scenery library), restart flight sim, and then 1 by 1 turn your sceneries back on to see which one is the problem.

 

 

to the sunken lake..... one developer might have used FEET instead of METERS to make a scenery, and that is what now gives you the Sunken area, or elevated area such as "the wall"

one developer might have used FEET instead of METERS to make a scenery, and that is what now gives you the Sunken area, or elevated area such as "the wall"

 

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In scenery design program, the developer is faced with "What measurement scale do you normally use". I use the SAE / Imperial Scale. Inches and Feet. HOWEVER. When making scenery in / for fsx, I must use METERS for some reason otherwise my scenery turns out like your lake.

I would be most grateful of any suggestions (other than reinstalling the whole lot again, because that is the only thing I can think of anyway).

 

If you turn on the on-screen display using Shift-Z and show the Lat/Lon, then fly along the anomaly it will probably run in a N/S or E/W true direction and is *generally* due to a bad mesh file. To find out which add on is causing this error turn off half of the add on scenery entries in the Scenery Library and go check again. If it's still there, go and take out some more of the add on scenery. Culling down the scenery entries will help determine which one is to blame.

 

 

 

I am very interested in this issue. I have something similar.

 

No, you have something different. You mention only having photo scenery for the area. Are you sure you don't have Ultimate Terrain X USA? This was a problem with the initial release and was fixed with a patch. If you don't have UTX USA, then you have some other add on that has missed labeled the elevation data for the Salton Sea. See the above comments about how to work out which add on scenery is causing the problem.

 

 

In both cases, once the problem add on has been determined, write the developer a note and send along a picture in the hopes they can get a corrected file done.

I used to have that PSP area... all I did was re-run UTX config tool

Thanks for all the suggestions. I did whittle it down to the Add On Scenery\Scenery folder, and subsequently to an add on terrain called France 38 which was a 38m mesh covering all of France. Once deleated I can now fly east to west with no wall. Thanks again.

. Are you sure you don't have Ultimate Terrain X USA? This was a problem with the initial release and was fixed with a patch.

 

I find that interesting.... I'm up to date with UTX USA v1.6. I reported the problem to ScenerySolutions, publisher of UTX USA, and their response was the same as what is still posted on their site in the Patch Notes under the UTX USA Version 1.6 Release Notes. "not reproducable or out of scope" I have cut and pasted the entry from the release notes:

 

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Title: Salton Sea Elevation Issue

Case #: EBAA23

Description: FS Genesiss is causing the elevation in UT to drop the Salton Sea down almost 1,000 ft. With FSGenesiss activated and UT deactivated, the lake returns to normal elevation.

Status: WHITE (not reproducable or out of scope)

Developer Notes:

The salton sea elevation is hard-coded at -67m in UTX USA. Lake elevations are independant of mesh elevations. So, the mesh should not be able to alter a flattened lake. At least, we have never heard of this before. We can help diagnose this issue in our forum if you wish. You can show us some before/after screenshots.