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Just wanted to echo some of the other posts and say a big "THANKS" to everyone who contributes to making Avsim what it is. I've been using this site for more years than I can remember and have felt a little lost without the file library in the last few days. I understand that yours is often a thankless task and I, for one, will be waiting patiently for whatever time it takes to get back up and running. :(

I know this thread is a little old now but I hope that those of you who posted will read this because I want to say a very big "THANK YOU!!!"I've suffered from repeated CTD's at KJFK and MMMX for a long time and could not for the life of me figure out the problem. I had narrowed it down to a texture issue with one of my AI aircraft but had never been able to figure out which one. I gave up for a while but did another search today and stumbled on this thread. Well, the lightbulb finally came on. I looked at my FP's for the AMX 737-800WL and saw that the these aircraft were mainly flying between (duh) MMMX and KJFK. I was able to download Imagetool and convert the 32 bit textures for my AIA AMX 737-800WL to DXT3 and all is now well. You have helped to cure months of frustration. I'm sure there's other problems I'll have to move onto now but this one is finally gone. Thanks again...

Well, I'm not sure exactly what I did but after following both of your suggestions I now have FS9 running smoothly in windows mode. No more full-screen mode, thank the Good Lord.It looks much better and, after some further tweaking, I've been able to get my frame-rate to average between 30 and 40 fps. Still some work to do but I think it'll get there.Thanks again for your help and information. It's still amazing to me that even after 20 yrs. of flight simming there's so much that I don't know.

Thanks for your responses. I was running a different driver and rolled back to the 163.75. I also hadn't thought about running FS9 in Windows XP compatability mode and hadn't been using nHancer. However, I tried all that and and am still having the same problem. When not in full-screen mode the textures appear to display properly but, as other posts indicate, FS9 acts very strangely and won't let you change views or do much of anything in the sim. I'm certainly not an expert but it does appear to be some kind of AA issue when in full-screen. Maybe I'm not using nHancer correctly. Any suggestions there?

I recently upgraded to a new system and, somewhat hesitantly, Windows Vista. I was fairly successful at installing and tweaking FS9 on my new computer but there's one problem I haven't been able to solve. I can only run FS9 in full-screen mode (I read other posts where users have had the same problem). I don't mind that so much but for some reason when in full-screen I get grainy and unusual textures, especially at night. During both day and night the sky textures, for example, do not blend together. They appear striated instead.Here are my system specs:AMD Phenom quad-core 2.3 GHz3 GB DDR2Nvidia Geforce 8500 GT1 TB Hard DriveI attached a screenshot so you can see what I'm talking about. It's not great but hopefully it gets the point across. I've read numerous posts and tweaked and tweaked but it won't go away. Plase help before I lose my mind (not a lot left to lose).Thanks

I wanted to add a quick note here even though this thread is a little old now.I was researching the forums today due to several recent FS9 crashes involving various .dll and scenery errors at certain locations. I saw in this thread a couple of people suggesting to delete or rename the FS9.cfg file and letting FS build a new one on re-start. I had never thought about this before.I did this and it worked like charm. Granted, I had to tweak a lot of my settings to get them back to where I had them but my crashes appear to be gone. My framrate improved as well. I add 3rd party scenery all the time and didn't realize how gunked up I had made my scenery files. Thanks for the info...