Sorry to ask on the forum, but I'm pretty new to FSX and I don't know where to start with this issue. I've posted the issue below, I was hoping maybe somebody knows "Oh hey its just *common issue XXXX*" or just give me a point to get started working on it at.

 

Setup looks like this:

 

FSX:SE

Windows 8.1 (i know, this is bad)

i5-4690K @ 3.5GHz

ATI R9 290

16gb ram

 

Addons -

 

REX 4 Direct Textures

REX Soft Clouds

OPUS FSI

ORBX PNW

DirectX 10 Fixer

FSUIPC

 

The problem seems to occur randomly when I'm in  the air - it doesn't always occur and it happens across all my aircraft. It never happens while i'm on the ground. I've tried reinstalling all my REX textures several times and this hasn't done anything. It happens without Opus installed as well. Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated - pics below:

 

 

My texture problem looks like this:

 

I'm thinking it might be a video card or video card driver issue.

Looks to me like some kind of graphics corruption or possibly cloud texture corruption. Try setting clouds to clear and see if it is reproduced. If the problem does continue then I would suspect a setting or maybe even something at a hardware or driver level. Try the first clear cloud setting and if nothing changes I would first try generating a new FSX.cfg with no tweaks or modification using DX9 and see if it is reproduced.

 

If the above does not help you can try and install FSX on a separate computer or HD and then copy the contents of the FSX/texture and Scenery/World/Texture folders to your existing installation overwriting when prompted. This will restore your clouds and everything to the default FSX state and should correct any corrupted textures. Any further problems and I think you are looking at either a complex driver corruption problem or maybe the entire FSX installation has a big problem somewhere.

 

The only time I have ever seen this kind of stuff is usually with bad bufferpools settings and/or some sort of autogen/texture corruption, both should be eliminated as possibilities with the things to try above.

GFX card issue, check connections, clean dust, see if this helps.

This should be labeled SE not MS

Just wanted to append an update for anyone that searches and finds this in the future: Apparently this is a well known issue with DirectX 10 and ATI graphics cards. I switched back to DX9 and all is fine. Shame about not being able to use Steve's fix after spending the cash but those are the breaks, I suppose i'll have to start pinching pennies for an NVIDIA card.

 

There is a major threadnaught at: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/422802-serious-issue-with-ati-and-steves-dx10-fix-tears-and-spikes-everywhere/

 

Good luck!

Welcome to AMD and FSX DX10. There is no solution to this problem besides switching to Nvidia