shaneo17 Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Gday I am quite disappointed at the moment, because I am not seeing FTX to it's full potential. The ground textures are almost always very blurry, and take a very long time to improve. Even after they do, they are still quite blurry and definitely not at full resolution. The Autogen is fine upon commencement of a flight, loads at a large radius, etc. However, it fails to load at a reasonable rate whilst flying over it. I watch the autogen appear right in front of my plane. My settings almost mirror those in the FTX manual, which is usually fine for my level of computer hardware (I have a pentium 4 3.0GHz, 1Gb RAM, Nvidia 7900GT). I have frames locked at 20fps. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Shane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Meiklejohn Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 I suspect you are being hamstrung by your limited ram Shane. There has been another thread with a person only having 1GB of ram suffering bad blurries. Also with a P4 3ghz I would not attempt to load autogen above NORMAL, you may even need to use the SPARSE setting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneo17 Posted March 9, 2008 Author Share Posted March 9, 2008 ok mate, thanks for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevinc Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Hi, I am having similar problems with a core 2 quad system running 2gig RAM and ATI HD2400 256MB. I have frames locked to 15 but even with autogen turned off I get very muddy textures which pop in and out of focus. Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxter Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 I would suggest that with 256mb, you are probably running out of video RAM... For your consideration... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 maybe away from the beaten track, @shanoe17, I have a P4 2,8HT 2G RAM 7600GS 256 and within some restrictions FSX/FTX runs fine here, try to untick all addon scenery except the FTX ones and see how you go I suspect that there is a conflict between one of your addon sceneries as for the system specs upgrade the RAM to 2 G's make sure they are identical sticks ! @ Kevinc, with those specs it should be rocking, so I think you have other issues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamfleet1 Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Definitely a memory issue, with both system and video. I would consider a minimum to be 2 gb system and 512 mb video. I have 3 gb and 512 mb and FTX runs like a dream- not a blurry or slow loading texture in sight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneo17 Posted March 10, 2008 Author Share Posted March 10, 2008 @shanoe17, I have a P4 2,8HT 2G RAM 7600GS 256 and within some restrictions FSX/FTX runs fine here, try to untick all addon scenery except the FTX ones and see how you go I suspect that there is a conflict between one of your addon sceneries as for the system specs upgrade the RAM to 2 G's make sure they are identical sticks ! I actually did a complete re-install of FSX leading up to FTX, and have no other addon scenery installed. Looks to me like it's time to get a new rig! Unfortunately im a little short on cash...anyone up for a loan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevinc Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Thanks Wolter, I know I have issues, my wife could write a book! Cheesy The only question I have is does anyone know what they might be and how to solve them? Checking task manager all 4 cores are running and I have tried a million combinations of settings with little or no change to frame rates and blurries. Should I try re-installing FSX? Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Kevin, one of the greatest fs killers is all the running proceses for XP this is a good guide to get writ of the not desired ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmegg Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Hi Kevin. I've got a well spec'd machine here but had the dreaded "blurries" issue, to varying degrees, for quite some time. I tried lot's of different things - tweaks like the old FIBRE_FRAME_RATE (from memory) etc, but in the end I solved it by stopping my virus checker. More specifically - I run Avast antivirus, and simply disable the "standard shield" before starting FSX, then resume it after I'm done in FSX. The "standard shield" checks files that are being read from the disk in case they are infected. The theory is that as textures are paged off disk they are being scanned, or at least considered, by the virus checker. This causes the FSX graphics engine to gradually fall behind with rendering the textures - specifically the higher res textures close to your current position. Try this - wait until FSX has gone all blurry, then hit Pause and wait. You'll probably see, over the following seconds (maybe up to a minute if FSX has fallen a long way behind) the textures gradually page-in and get clearer and sharper. What this indcates is that the graphics engine can't keep up with your aircraft! With blurries it's because it can't get the textures to the videocard fast enough. If your disk is real slow or badly fragmented then you might also see this happening. In my case it was my virus checker slowing-down the paging of textures from the disk to the videocard. Now I'm sorted and FTX is bloody awesome! Try defraging your drive and turning off your virus scanner and see if that helps. Fingers crossed it'll do the trick for ya, or someone else reading this thread and having the same prob. All the best ... Greg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Schofield Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 G'day Kevin, Your system seems at least as good as mine and mine's now running like a well-oiled machine. It took some tweaking though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevinc Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Thanks for your suggestions guys and please keep em coming! I have tried disabling virus checking (I have Norton 2007) and running a clean startup using the alacrity PC utility someone posted on the forum- no change so I don't think it is a memory or processor issue. All other 3rd party scenery files like VSX are disabled. To be honest it is a problem in default FSX but the view with FTX is so much better I crave a smooth flight with no blurries. I have Vista 32 bit OS and have the latest ATI drivers. Andrew- can you tell me the settings that worked for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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