andrew222

Ok, I can live without ENB/Shade for now. It'll be working at some point down the line as the effect looks too good to leave out. To be honest I'm just happy with P3D running as smoothly as it does while I'm trying to get my head round simulated flying lessons. I used to be really interested in flying a couple of years ago but got so fed up with FSX crashing I eventually gave up and the yoke, pedals, Track IR etc went back into their boxes. Opened the boxes again last week and happily following tutorials when I get the time. Need to get in a real Cessna 152 soon though and see if I enjoy the real thing :shok: Andrew

Many thanks for the replies. ENB does actually work and looks really nice (not as sterile) once you've minimized and then restored the P3D window so perhaps the issue is related to this menus.dll so hopefully the update will fix it. I purchased 'Shade' the day before I installed P3D but couldn't seem to get it working. Will try again tonight.

Just curious to see if anyone else has problems with Prepar3d crashing while using the additional ENB files in the root folder? At first I thought ENB wasn't working until I minimized the window and then maximized and then it started up. Looked great and way better than the default lighting. All was fine until I went to look at the map while flying then just got a black screen. Did quite a few tests and the crash starts when ever I choose something from the top left menu bar (change weather, change aircraft etc). If I just fly and don't touch the menu then no crash and beautiful lighting Taking the two files out the root folder and the crashing was removed. I know the simple solution would be to 'don't use emb or don't access the menu' but it looks so good and I've noticed a few screen shots on this forum with enb used some it must work correctly Any advice would be great. Thanks. Andrew

Excellent Idea Stephen and it worked. Many thanks from the West coast of Canada.I'm writing the process out so it can get picked up by stressed people also looking for the same solution via Google :good:First I completely uninstalled the catalyst program and then rebooted. The display was still the same so something AMD / ATI was still running things. Went to Device manager and looked at the display adapter driver and it was still using one that was dated 1/26/11 V 8.821.00. Uninstalled that, deleted the two folders (AMD / ATI ) that were on the C drive and then rebooted and then finally got the large stretched desktop and icons so everything was now deleted.Installed the latest catalyst program program, rebooted but textures still looked crap in Flight.Went back to the Device manager - display adapter driver - and noticed that windows had put the same old driver back in so did a 'Update Driver' and manually browsed for it instead of letting windows play silly buggers and wasting everyone time. Took a guess at this one below dated 12/5/2011 and V 8.930.0.0C:AMDSupport12-1_vista_win7_64_dd_cccPackagesDriversDisplayW76A_INFLook what I got nowThanks again,Andrew

Hi Gsmaciel,Unfortunately uninstalling it all didn't do the trick as it was still the same after downloading it again and installing the planes. I think I saw a post yesterday on the AMD forum mentioning something along the lines of 'No smoothing was applied to the shadows and the textures looked really crap close up'.I don't have FSX installed anymore (got fed up with it crashing) but last time I used it the textures up close were spot on.It may be an issue with the Radeon drivers? I have 2 X 5870 ATI cards (500mhz each) and all is up to date as far as the Catalyst version.I guess Flight has only really just come out so we have to wait for AMD to catch up

It certainly is an odd one as all the planes are the same. I looked again at the scenery and to be honest that isn't too clever either when seen up close but from a distance it looks fine.Hey, it's just like the old days messing around with FSX to get the graphics looking good. :Party:Think I'll just uninstall the whole thing this evening then download and install it again.

Hi,I was wondering if anyone else had this issue and sorted it out?The actual aircraft texture on all my installed planes look pretty rough bit the scenery textures outside look fine. Really odd. At first I thought it was a ploy by microsoft to get you to buy the extra planes then all looks good but it was not to be.I'm running 2 X 5870 ATI cards 500mhz each on a reasonable system that displays FSX just fine. Tried changing the different settings within Flight but no luck. As I said though the scenery looks great.Any help would be appreciated please.Thanks,Andrew