jhaley

<p>Well, that appears to be the problem
I replaced the milkyway_lm.dds texture with a personalized one available here at Avsim and the black circle is gone!

However, it's replaced now by a rather unsightly customized milkyway.

I have 3 back-ups, but they are all the same size texture, so it's possible that this may have been corrupted about 3 months ago, which is when I first started to notice it.

I think I'm almost there.
 
But why would enabling DX10 highlight this problem?

JH

I believe I've nailed it. The orb is gone and on closer inspection from my monthly saves, I remember going in and renaming that particular file after others had posted various comments and suggestions for its altering/removal. I must have done something to the file which led to its corruption.