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This is what my FSX use to look like before my laptop crashed

Thank you both for those answers. @Jim, thank you for the tweaks. My FSX actually runs on the nvidia card but because of the optimus technology fsx doesn't seem to show it. @ Paul, I uninstalled the shader mod because it made the water very bright. I've deleted the shade folders in the locoal/fsx directory but I'm facing other problems(please see the attached image). It's problems after problems for me. Thanks a lot for the help.

Thanks for the responses guys. Really helpful. However, I'm confused, aren't dx and directX the same? Not sure if this is helpful or not but I'm running windows 7 64 bit. From what I understand win7 comes with Direct X 11 which incorporates all the previous DirectX versions. So, is it safe to say that I experienced these problems due to some corrupt entries in my fsx.cfg? And that if I can pin point those entries I should be able to run the game without having to rely on the shading mod?

Yes! It working now. Cheers Ruud. But I still haven't understood what the problem was. Any ideas what might have caused this?

I restore my laptop to its factory default. So that should have taken care of the drivers and complete fsx removal. And I did update the nvidia to its latest drivers after restoring it. FSX was re-installed so the cfg should be clean. Just added [bUFFERPOOLS] PoolSize=0 at the very top of my fsx.cfg. Didn't make a difference. I have no add on scenery at this point. Just some add on planes. Why do you think it runs fine in dx10preview? If it was a hardware related issue then dx10 being checked shouldn't really make a difference no?

A few days ago whilst playing fsx I spilled some water on my laptop. Thankfully though I have a waterproof keyboard protector. Still, some of the water went into the trackpad and the laptop shutoff. SInce then I've restored windows and FSX, however my addon aircrafts don't show up properly unless I have directx preview checked (only seats show up when I try to fly with add on aircrafts). Even the land and water textures disappear without directx preview enabled. With directx preview checked everything appears as normal. Any ideas on what might be wrong? THANKS! Specs: dell xpsl502x i7 2670qm 2gb nvidia optimus gt540m 6gb ram inter® hd graphics