NOTED PNW: Trees in lakes

[Jon Clarke]

Lots of lakes with trees in them in PNW. Is this a flooding representation or a glitch I have? I do not know the PNW area in real life but it sure looks weird to see so many lakes with large amounts of trees in them.

[Tim Harris]

Hello,

Have a read of this topic: http://orbxsystems.com/forums/index.php?topic=19314.0

Holger posted a solution in that thread here: http://orbxsystems.com/forums/index.php?topic=19314.msg167868#msg167868

[markwlee]

Search and the answer will be given you.

Seek and you will find.

Holger wrote:

* in your FSX main folder find terrain.cfg and make a backup copy of it

* open terrain.cfg in Wordpad or Notepad and scroll down to "[Texture.264]" with Name = Airport_Backgrounds_ExcludeAutoGen

* look for RenderPriority= a few lines down and add a zero to the value so that it changes from 20000 to 200000 (that's one of the fixes included with the modified terrain.cfg file)

* save terrain.cfg and start FSX and check any of the high elevation lakes, for example by starting at Chilko Lake

Possibly a symptom of having SP2 instead of Acceleration?

[Patrick Scharnowski]

Possibly a symptom of having SP2 instead of Acceleration?

Possibly. I have Acceleration and I only recently installed FSX from scratch. That setting was definitely correct from the get go for me.

[Holger Sandmann]

Hi guys,

I may have barked up the wrong tree regarding the bug in the terrain.cfg file. I have checked my backup copies of the default versions for all "flavors" of FSX and none of them have the issue. Not sure where it originated but my current suspect is the custom terrain.cfg file originally introduced with the old FTX Mode for our AU regions.

In any case the upcoming fix will not use that specific entry so we won't have to worry about it anymore.

Cheers, Holger