Hey gents,

 

Anyone know how to solve the issue of airport buildings disappearing with certain vertical view angles? From the cockpit, panning the viewpoint up and down, if the buildings are below the midpoint on the screen (panning view up), everything disappears except runways/taxiways. Then above the midpoint on the screen (panning view down) they reappear. Same thing in external views. Any ideas?

The disappearing generic buildings that are most of the airport scenery? Welcome to a "flaw" in FSX. Not seen a solution to the problem since FSX's release.

I've only seen this problem with the progressive taxi dashes, sometimes if I pan my view they disappear.

You mean to tell me that every installation of FSX out there will have disappearing buildings at all default airports? So basically I'm stuck with Sparse scenery settings (this keeps the airport signs but takes out all the buildings).

There are lingering issues with FSX. Try adding in higher res mesh and watch all the generic buildings start to float about 1-2 feet above the ground. If it bothers you to such an extent to where you're turning off almost all scenery objects, OK. I've just learned to live with the many quirks of the game.

I remember seeing this (disappearing buildings) when I first installed FSX. I do not notice it anymore, though I do spend more time in FS9 than FSX.

 

I could be wrong, I think the Highmem fix takes care of this.

 

regards,

Joe

Will try that.

I've never noticed this in any of the default airports, however I have one airport by LatinVFR that has one building that disappears out of the corner of my eye as I pan around. Aside from that I have never noticed this happen anywhere thankfully in my last 5 years of using FSX. I can see how it would be an annoyance however. All of my other addon airports I have ever purchased never displayed this anomaly.

Okay so highmem is not a fix for this... And not only that but I just verified that add on airport textures will do the disappearing act with a higher viewing angle. This isn't an issue with all FSX installations... You guys can't tell me that ALL airports, default or third party, have consistently disappearing textures and objects.