Hi all,I have this issue: when using FS2004, sometimes (not always), after a while, textures rapidly begin to "degrade" (see for example scenery textures in 2nd screenshot) and then they are not loaded at all (see screenshots).I did a search in AVSIM forums and found several users had the same issue, but it seems no significative explainings or solutions have been found.My system:Barton 2500@3200Abit NF7-S v2.02x512MB Twinmos pc3500Sapphire Radeon 9800Pro 128MBPlease note: the problem is appeared several weeks ago, when the system was not overclocked at all, and equipped with a Radeon 9500Pro. Hence I doubt it's a videocard/hardware issue.I have latest Omegadrivers.BIOS settings are: AGP aperture size 32MB (the min value) AGP speed 8XAny ideas?Marco

Have you defragged your hard drive recently? You might also try deleting your FS9 config file as well. The old one may have gotten corrupted, and FS will generate a new one for you. Are you running any background tasks? Scanned for spyware that might be taking up system resources?Tony

That happened to me too, giving FS a full reinstall fixed it, but there might be less painful ways to do it. :-lolDaniel P.http://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/ng_driver.jpgMember of SJU Photography. [A HREF=http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?userid=9004]Click Here[/A] to view my aircraft photos at JetPhotos.Net!The official psychotic AA painter. :)

Your problem is related to memory management quite likely. Either you set it up in the dialogue or directly into the registry, but in either case, you MUST use the windows performance setting for Applications, NOT Background Services. If you did this via a regedit, change it back to read this way:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory ManagementLargeSystemCache = 0 (versus = 1)Noel

>Your problem is related to memory management quite likely. >Either you set it up in the dialogue or directly into the>registry, but in either case, you MUST use the windows>performance setting for Applications, NOT Background Services.[CUT]Yeah, I read about that in similar topics, but it's not my case: I already have the right settings. Thank you anyway :)

>Have you defragged your hard drive recently? You might also>try deleting your FS9 config file as well. The old one may>have gotten corrupted, and FS will generate a new one for you.> Are you running any background tasks? Scanned for spyware>that might be taking up system resources?>TonyAn fs9.cfg rebuild is a good idea. I will try it, by now I increased AGP aperture size to 128MB and it seems to work (Thank you Chris Willis for the advice)Thank you for your advice :)Marco

Hey Marco,I am GLAD you posted this as I too have experienced this problem a lot recently whereas I didn't have this problem too much in the past. My sim gets into the SAME shape as yours. I've got a 9700 Pro (although I'm moving to an X800Pro very shortly).Quite a vexing problem that, as with is the case with you, does not happen often or regularly, but does happen.