I just installed FS9 but it came up with some strange problem. Everytime I load a new aircraft there are missing textures. For example the front and the back are textured but the wings, middle part and engines are not. You just see the grey colored model. I tried to change the display settings but it did not work jet. It's okay with the default planes but not with addons even if they are for fs9. These fs9 planes used to work fine with my old fs2002 but I want them to look right in fs9. Does anyone know a fix for this problem ?I've included a picture so you can see what I mean.It's the Posky A340-300. The tail, engines and the left wing are textured but the rest is not there. It also shows up that way in the select menue. When I load it another time the missing textures change, then e.g. the tail is untextured but the front is.Has it to do with the Service pack for fs9 ?Thanx a lotSystem :AMD Athlan 1.8 GHzATI Radeon 9200SE, 128MB786 MB RamWin XP w. SP2 installed

I too have the same problems, but with the whole aircraft. Since I have an old computer and video card, I assume it is hardware related??? Will look forward to the response on this thread.

Couple things - first, how much ram have you got?Second, check to see that you have have the system memory set to optimize for "APPLICATIONS" rather than "SYSTEM CACHE". I'm at work now so forgive me if my memory is mistaken. The setting is found in the windowsXP properties page where you can choose to allow windows to manage virtual memory and so forth. I found if I set it to optimize the cache (according to a tweak suggestion found here way back in time) I had the grey body textures problem cropping up. Set it back to optimize for apps and the problem ceased...

I just tried setting system memory to "APPLICATIONS" and it solved the grayed out texture problem, but made the general appearance of scenery so blurry that I set back to "SYSTEM CACHE". I have an AMD 1.7, 512 RAM, and a TI4400 video card -- a fairly outdated system by today's standards. I still wonder if my system just can't keep up with today's more demanding planes?

well, a bit more ram would help. But the system cache thing shouldn't affect the blurriness of the textures. At least it doesn't for me...on a Geforce4Ti4200 btw.

Hello Zev, Sounds like I'm having the same problem as you. I'm getting randomly grey-out blank models and it's different aircraft everytime. Where do I change windowsXP to applications? My PC specs are 2.8 P4, 1024mb RAM & 128mb GeForce4 Ti 4600. I'm getting pretty good framerates but this gray-out balnk models is a real bummer. After exiting the flight they're also randomly blank in the aircraft selection screen. DougD

Hey.I got the same problem, and I just can't figure out what is causing it.My specs:Smelleron 1.3Ghz (meh)384MB SDRAMATI Radeon 7500 128MBMS Windows XP Pro w/ SP2FS2004 w/ patchAny help would be greatly appreciated.Thanks.

So I finally managed to solve this problem.It took me a while to fix it. I searched in the Internet for a patched ATI Driver. There are several websites (sorry don't remember the URL at the moment, but I will take a look at my PC when I'm back home) that have those "tuned" driver. The other thing I did was flash the bios of my mainboard (nForce) and there we go. Now it is working very fine with good frame rates.So I promise to post the URL of the driver site as soon as possible.