Tonyla1 Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 I seem to have developed a weird problem with my start up screen where you click all your options i.e plane, airport etc. The box where the Trike spins around is all black. When I click to choose an aircraft, they all show up as per usual however if I click on one for details, again, all black and no plane appears. If I choose a plane and load the flight everything is normal and the correct plane is sitting on the runway. Does anyone have a fix for this? Its not serious enough to do a comple FSX reinstall, its just very annoying. The only changes I have recently made is using raedon pro and the sweetfx configuration manager. The sim is performing normally in all other respects. Cheers Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramonb Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 Hello Tony I have seen that problem with some ATI/AMD and also nVidia drivers.Usually when we try betas or latest RTM packages, It affects FSX and even mess up some of our video pro capture software.(Black Magic and ForeSight boards) It has something to do with DirectDraw, OpenGL and D3D. Check Your ATI/AMD drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 by any chance have the ENB tweak and a Vidcard tweak proggy active try hitting Shift+F12 see if that makes the aircraft visible again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonyla1 Posted August 21, 2013 Author Share Posted August 21, 2013 Hi Wolter, I don't use ENB at this stage. I'll check on any Vidcard tweaks and try shift +F12. Hi Ramon, I'll check out drivers too. The problem is more of an irritation than a performance issue, but still, I'd like things back to normal Thanks guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonyla1 Posted August 21, 2013 Author Share Posted August 21, 2013 Ok, now I'm really puzzled. I restarted FSX tonight and presto, after a week of missing Trike, there she was. This is before I even attempted any of the suggestions above. The only thing different is that I reconnected my computer earlier tonight to an ADSL modem (after not being connected for a week). Is this a coincidence, or is something in my system or fsx itself dependent of being connected to a live modem? I can't imagine so, but it certainly is a strange turn of events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 well you know the phrase "MS works in mysterious ways" must admit that I also fail to see that being connected to the net or not has to do with it, although maybe you have something running around there that constantly polls for something on the net and eats up resources in the background Can only recommend to pay a visit here => http://www.blackviper.com to kill off all not needed crapola that runs havoc on ones system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonyla1 Posted August 21, 2013 Author Share Posted August 21, 2013 Thanks Wolter, will check out that link Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramonb Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Maybe when you connected your PC to modem and if you have Windows Update set to automatic then it might have had downloaded some updates in the background, including an ATI/AMD driver. But as you said it makes no sense…. Glad it’s working for You. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallard Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 I get the "black box" when my video card driver fails to start correctly... But I usualy know that that will happen when I get the according message after booting the computer. Have you checked your driver? Has that changed/updated itself lately? Cheers Mallard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonyla1 Posted August 22, 2013 Author Share Posted August 22, 2013 I haven't changed any drivers lately. The black box is back again. I'll have to confirm this when I get home from work, but it seems that after I reboot the computer and start FSX on its own (without starting Raedon pro and sweetfx configurator), then the trike is there. If I launch FSX through the configurator then no trike. This all started happening after I started experimenting with settings in Raedon pro and the sweetfx configurator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 If I launch FSX through the configurator then no trike. This all started happening after to started experimenting with settings in Raedon pro and the sweetfx configurator. So between those two is most probably the cause of your issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonyla1 Posted August 22, 2013 Author Share Posted August 22, 2013 So between those two is most probably the cause of your issue Yep, they are the likely suspects for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Harmes Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 I haven't had my trike disappear, but I have had two black squares standing vertically and rotating with the trike. That is strange and I don't know what causes it, but I seemed to have fixed that recently by installing the latest directX, and I actually extracted the files it asks you to extract directly in to the main FSX folder. I think I also updated c++ runtime files. Cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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