badapple Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 This problem has been addressed by a few people in the last month or so and I am joining the band wagon. Ever since the auto update of FTX Cental and the merging of FTX LIghts and the Global Base pack I get terrible terrain features as shown in my screen shot. I have tried every step that has been suggested, install, re-install. Verify files. Put back into P3D root folder. etc... etc..... I've tried messing with texture settings. Timing of my OC settings. I've even uninstalled every 3rd party scenery package I have. The problem still exits. I can get it better by uninstalling all of the Global base products. But that is not an option. It just proves something changed with the new update to FTX Central. Oh! by the way, I did verify each product. And I did do a "sync" I've gone so far as to uninstall and then reinstall all Prepar3d scenery just in case. It did not change. I have followed the instruction of Doug and of Nick Cooper to try and resolve this issue. I have installed, reinstalled, verified, sync'd, and anything else I could think of. My recent venture of to go into the Scenery Library and disable all FTX folder. Amazing, no issues except for the stock scenery. I then started turned on each folder until I came unto a problem. (That was the plan) BINGO!!! I first turned on FTX VECTOR. Immediately the square black blotches and night texture popped up. I then turned it off again. And then turned on only the FTX Global base. Wow! Not as bad but there were some of the same thing but fewer. I'm stuck. All of my scenery worked perfect as it always does from Orbx until version 4.1 of the FTX Central hit my machine. I'm usually ok with figuring out problems in P3D, but this one takes the cake. At this stage of the game I can not use my simulator while it is in a checkerboard state. All of FTX stuff is so great. I brag to all about it. It has never really given me any problem which couldn't be resolved. But this one renders my machine unusable for flight simulation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Sawatzky Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 Hi Please post a copy of your “scenery.cfg” file and the “add-ons.cfg” file found at C:\ProgramData\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badapple Posted February 25, 2020 Author Share Posted February 25, 2020 here you go: The discovery entry changed because Nick or You had said to delete it and install it in the \user\ folder. Also, all of the FTX entries are ACTIVE=false because I turned them off trying to troubleshoot which FTX folder was causing the problem Thanks for responding. add-ons.cfg scenery.cfg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Sawatzky Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 Thanks Please activate the below entries and try again. FTXAA_ORBXLIBS ORBX!OPENLC_BASE ORBX!OPENLC_EUROPE1 ORBX!OPENLC_NAMERICA1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badapple Posted February 25, 2020 Author Share Posted February 25, 2020 checker board: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badapple Posted February 25, 2020 Author Share Posted February 25, 2020 And here is the exact same picture of the bottom one from above only with those items you mentioned turned off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Sawatzky Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 Ok, now in Orbx Central go to settings\help and run the sync simulator function. Then do a verify files of the Orbx Libraries and Global base. Keep those four items activated please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badapple Posted February 25, 2020 Author Share Posted February 25, 2020 ummm, uhhhh, well...........hu ummmm......... Doug, I'm loosing my mind. As I was following your steps I was thinking, "Why am I doing this for the umpteenth time?" Then...... BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It hit me right in the face while I was reading your instruction. Instead of updating and verifying the Orbx Libraries, I've been doing all of that to the "Object Flow" file. So............. I updated the Library and here is the result: I know your going to laugh. Its ok. I deserve it. Thanks so much for your help. Sometimes I guess it takes a little simple line by line instruction to keep us old guys going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Sawatzky Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 No worries! Glad to hear it is working out! Just one last observation before you activate the rest of your scenery (if you already have that is fine too) is a slight adjustment of your Vector entries to match the below image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badapple Posted February 25, 2020 Author Share Posted February 25, 2020 I did go ahead and activate all of the FTX scenery. I had to make sure the VECTOR entries were like your picture because for some reason the P3D Africa scenery keeps wanting to insert itself in between the VECTOR entires. Here is the shot after activating ALL FTX and VECTOR in proper order: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Sawatzky Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badapple Posted February 25, 2020 Author Share Posted February 25, 2020 Thank you for your time. You've been most helpful. Stephen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jk40wall Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 Hi I seem to have a similar problem with checker board effect, I'm looking for the .cfg files but these don't appear in any searches in P3D folder so really confused now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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