After spending half the day trouble shooting its time to panic.

 

 

When I open FSX Im greeted with swirly wavy corrupted graphics!

 

 

I thought it was my video card but DCS works just fine and several bench tests have also come back okay,

 

What I have done

 

1. Reinstalled fsx from a backup

2. Reset OC back to default

3. Reseated and cleaned video card

4. Tried a different fsx.cfg

5. Updated Video drivers

 

Its only FSX that shows corrupt graphics. What should I try next?

 

 

i5 2500k OC 4.5

nvidea 560TI

2xSSD

fsx sp's installed?

 

Everything as it should be in the FSX display settings?

 

No anti virus scanning while you were on fsx?

 

.......

I have acceleration fsx gold edition installed so whatever sp's came with that.

FSX display looks normal

I have Fsx in the excluded section of the AV so it never scans however you have reminded me to scan fsx now for any viruses so that running as I type

Just a wild guess, but maybe this version of the video card driver does not get along well with FSX.

I agree with stans... what version of nVidia drivers do you have installed? Maybe try going a few versions back to see if the issue persists.

Good idea but even going back a few models hasn't helped. Wonder whats causing it. There is no aircraft when I pan through the views just lots of messed up scenery. Its not the fsx install because I tried a back up, same result

 

Everything points to the graphics card except it works in other games..

It does look like a hardware issue  but force a reinstall of DirectX might be worth a try too.

Yeah did that already. Strange thing is Im flying in DCS at the highest settings without so much as a stutter , I do love that sim !

 

It cant be the card  itself.

This looks as if the water is an issue. Does this error appear if the is no water displayed e.g. middle of a desert? What water are you using? Is that by an external program?

A few ideas:

 

Do you have NVidia Inspector installed? Since this is game specific, maybe the NVidia profile for FSX is messed up. IIRC, there's an option to reset the game profiles during driver re-installs, did you do that?

 

Does it happen with a 'virgin' fsx.cfg? Buffer pool 'tweaks' can mess you up.

 

Also, I've had crazy graphics spikes when my FSX FPS limiter was not in sync with my NI settings - e.g. - 1/2 refresh rate in NI (30 Hz) and FPS limiter set to 31 Hz gives me crazy spikes.

Is DCS a DirectX 9 game though? Also maybe install a DX9/10/11 benchmark testing program and test all DX features with it.

ticking direct 10x works! now Im really confused  

 

I should add I created a virgin fsx.cfg and set nvidea inspector to default as well

 

I will have a bit of play with it and see where it goes..

Interesting - Try deleting your DX9 shaders and let FSX rebuild them.

where do I find the shaders?

 

edit

 

found them

Quick update...I solved the problem by doing a full pc restore that included both C and E (fsx) drives because I figure the problem had to be in C drive. Regular backing up saves the day again :-)

 

Thanks everyone for trying to help me out. Now back to Flying