yorgosGK

Hello Avsim! I have spent the last....oh idk 234 straight hours of my life trying to resolve my tearing and spike issue with FSX (DX10). First off...Clearly one can tell that Steves DX10 fix is a really good fix and I would recommend it to anyone because I'm sure this isn't happening to all of you happy users. Lets begin.... One day I started to get tears and spikes while in DX10.....After a un believable amount of troubleshooting and testing I decided the only way to stop my tearing and spike issue in FSX was reinstalling it all over again (yes, with all my addons and hardware button mapping, FSUIPC, cam settings, weather settings etc...). My thought was to install one addon at a time until these badboys came out to play again. Of course I was hoping they wouldn't....but, they did. Take a few minutes to hear my story because this bug may be breading like a mouse for ATI users. First off my hardware and software: (Alienware Aurora R4) i7 3930k 3.2ghz (OC'd at 4.4) HT enabled ATI Radeon 7970 3gb 16gbs of ram Win 7 Home Premium ATI 13.4 driver RadeonPro My FSX.CGF changes (after trying 10000 options): Highmemfix=1 WideViewAspect=True ForceWindowedVsynce=1 TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=40 My addons: UTX GEX REX ASE2012 Genises mesh Magoisoft Shade EZdock Cam Folks, I have done everything. bios settings, bios upgrades/downgrades, GPU driver update/downgrade, OC settings, Cooling settings. Literally every possible option of tweaks in the FSX.cfg (including making a default one). CCC upgrade and downgrade, addon re-installs, CCC settings, RadeonPro settings, AA setings, MSI afterburn options, graphics options in FSX, traffic options, textures from GEX and ASE 2012 and to be honest, SO MUCH MORE that I won't waist your time with my list, just know it's not pretty. I finally said thats enough and I reinstalled EVERY...single...thing. So as I'm "revers engineering" my situation I keep in mind what I'm installing and testing FSX after every single install. Finally I come to Steves DX10 fix. I register it, run the installer and....(drum roll please) Tearing and spikes are back faster then a speeding bullet. So now that I see what's causing these at least I have a little better idea of what I should be doing....But I mean NOTHING......nothing at all has stopped these from showing.....a few minutes into every flight I get these spikes and tears especially on final. Funny thing is there is absolutely NO FPS DECREASE while these are happening...they just flicker and go crazy everywhere on my screen. Also my card isn't even being used a lot....or heating up along with my CPU. My Radeon Pro settings are from this guid right here. I have done a numerous amount of FSX.CFG tweaks including bufferpools 1&0 reject thresholds and these are still here. Isn't this beautiful? I am willing to try just about anything to get these to leave. My sim is better than ever right now if it just wasn't for this bug.....Im getting a steady 30fps with the ATI DX10 guid up-top however, all this great sim experience is washed away with these spikes and tears. Any ideas gentlemen?

Thats it! It was it.....I just installed it again and it started to happen..... I deleted shade. and still did it. few minutes into the flight...everytime. I need to post this now that we know! hopefully we can get a fix.

I just spent the last 10-12 hours re installing FSX with....oh my god. what a hassle. I used Steves fix as well....and then it started to happen. Im scared to install it now. I was OCing too but I think the only issue is that fix hates ATI card..... Im going to try it one more time....and if it does it again we know for sure that is it.

Thanks a lot Kuragiman. But this was doing this tearing with a completely default FSX.cfg as well :( Its the wieredest thing.....a few minutes into my flight and it just goes crazy....spikes EVERYWHERE, tearing, noise....Is there anyway my graphics card is just broken? I mean while this tearing is happening im not even getting a missed frame......its "running" normal...Regardless i have tried everything, why not just try your fsx.cfg! Please email me at george.k@optikast.com Thank you very much for helping me out. The Radeon equivalent is RadeonPro...it runs me perfect like an NVidia inspector but no setting I can stop this tearing from happening :(

its the 7970..thanks for your help.....any ideas? ive tried any possible of buffertools and still.....

I have tried everything.......every possible tweak of FXG.cfg.....GPU settings...DX10 and no DX10......Default FSX.cfg..DX10 Fixes....Driver updates/downgrades......I gave GEX, REX, UTX, ASE2012. Ive also done the shader mod. Nothing fixes my tearing issue. Also i have done bios stuff like enabling HT on and off.....ive done 1000 affinity mask tweaks also... Any ideas? More pics here: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/422063-spikes-and-noise-flickering-everywhere-help/?hl=yorgosgk#entry2809354 My rig: i7 3930k 3.2ghz (OC'd at 4.3) HT enabled ATI Radeon 7900 16gbs of ram Win 7 Home Premium CC Center 13.4

I have the old GEX right now. Im making the switch to FTX Global in a few hours! Wish me good luck! Ill re post to share my comments.

Hello all, this is my first post. I hope im not breaking any rules by posting this. I am getting lots of texture glitches lately and I have no idea what could be causing them. I run FSX in DX10 mode because I get a lot more frames. The thing is I was never seeing this before. its just recent. I think I may have done some fsx.cfg tweaks. I have tried everything. I even generated the default fsx.cfg as well and nothing. I have done several troubleshoots like update alll my drivers, defrag, OC settings, Texture reload/settings, frame limiters, graphic options and many more other things. A few minutes into my flight or sometimes right away I get a whole bunch of spikes and noise. It flickers everywhere. Sometimes it could actually look scary lol. I would love to solve this. I have seen picutres online where ppl have gotten the same glitch/bug but I cant fix mine. Help me avsim forums! My FSX.CGF tweeks: Highmemfix=1 [bUFFERPOOLS] bufferpools=0 TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=6049 WideViewAspect=True [TERRAIN] LOD_RADIUS=6.500000 My rig: i7 3930k 3.2ghz (OC'd at 4.5) HT enabled ATI Radeon 7900 16gbs of ram Win 7 Home Premium CC Center 13.9 My main addons: ASE2012 (textures from here) GEX NorthAmerica EZcam Mogiasoft shade several scenery addons for airports etc Here are the crazy stills!