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Slow loading textures

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I would be in cockpit view then when I switch to spot view my AI planes and some building would be black. I would wait 15 to maybe 30 seconds then the textures would return to normal. Is there anything I can do to speed up the textures loading?

I have the same issue. Obviously your sliders for scenery takes time to load it, so lower them down. 

In prepar3d.cfg you can change following parameter in the [GRAPHICS] section.

MAX_TEXTURE_REQUEST_DISTANCE=32000.000000

That should help if your GPU can handle it. You could play with the value a bit. I think default is 1000.

Dan

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2 hours ago, blaunarwal said:

In prepar3d.cfg you can change following parameter in the [GRAPHICS] section.

MAX_TEXTURE_REQUEST_DISTANCE=32000.000000

That should help if your GPU can handle it. You could play with the value a bit. I think default is 1000.

Dan

Thanks. I will try that.

I had tested that texture drawing line in P3D config file and I still had the problem. I found that the best way is to move down sliders for the graphics, that way it loads faster. And put smaller number in the texture request distance. 

32000 is a massive increase compared to default. I would try 5000 as a first step. Having said that, I am not certain how significantly this tweak hits performance.

Edited by Christopher Low

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1 hour ago, Christopher Low said:

32000 is a massive increase compared to default. I would try 5000 as a first step. Having said that, I am not certain how significantly this tweak hits performance.

This depends on the power of your GPU as this preloads you Vram a 6GB card may struggle with a higher setting, I have 11GB and 32000 which half max draw distance and it works. this tweak came via P3D devs.

 

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