Author Topic: Some buildings of the airport not showing when starting a flight SOLVED (Read 32235 times)

davidal · « **on:** June 10, 2013, 10:43:11 pm »

Hello,
First of all I would like to congratulare FSDT for this excellent rendition of CYVR.
I am encountering some issues when starting a flight at CYVR, mainly some buildings (those which are far away from the plane) do not load. I need to manually restart Couatl engine to force them to appear. And sometimes the problem still persists. Then, the only way I can force these buildings to appear is either to slew the plane to this area or take off and flight very close over the area. This fixes the issue, but the immersion is over if I need to do this every time.
Any suggestions?
Dan

davidal · « **Reply #1 on:** June 10, 2013, 10:51:15 pm »

I am attaching a screenshot of the problem.

virtuali · « **Reply #2 on:** June 11, 2013, 12:50:59 pm »

Be sure you don't run FSX or ANY of its add-on modules in any of the "Compatibility" modes.

davidal · « **Reply #3 on:** June 12, 2013, 10:27:19 am »

Thanks Umberto,
Unfortunately, I checked and FSX is not running in compatibility mode. I have a pretty clean FSX installation. I am just running REX and UT2 with FSX and none of them is running in compatibility mode. I forced all of them to run as administrator but this does not seem to change anything. I need to keep restarting Cuatl engine to get the problem solved and most of the times the central part of the airport does not load.
I assume I would need to live with that. It is really a pity cause apart from that this is an excellent product.
Rgds,
Dan

virtuali · « **Reply #4 on:** June 12, 2013, 10:33:27 am »

Quote from: dabidal on June 12, 2013, 10:27:19 am

I need to keep restarting Cuatl engine to get the problem solved and most of the times the central part of the airport does not load.

That's strange because, if you had a problem with Couatl not running, every building should disappear. If only some of them disappear, it's surely something entirely else.

Try to temporarily disable all your other add-ons, maybe another add-on is using Simconnect too and is sending too many commands, that our modules don't have a chance to talk with FSX. We saw this happen a couple of times.

F-OHPM · « **Reply #5 on:** January 01, 2014, 02:05:24 am »

Sorry to bring up an old thread but neither one of these solutions are working for me. (And as posted in another thread) The only solution was to run right through the building which is very annoying. This problem has been going on for awhile now and I just want some suggestions.

virtuali · « **Reply #6 on:** January 01, 2014, 02:13:40 am »

Quote from: F-OHPM on January 01, 2014, 02:05:24 am

Sorry to bring up an old thread but neither one of these solutions are working for me. (And as posted in another thread) The only solution was to run right through the building which is very annoying. This problem has been going on for awhile now and I just want some suggestions.

As I've said in this thread, the only known possible cause for buildings that appear only if you get close, is if you run FSX or some other add-on that runs together with FSX into Compatibility mode, which causes video drivers to behave differently.

Another possibly issue is having Transparency Antialiasing ( or AAA on some cards ) enabled, this is explained in the scenery manual too, it must be disabled.

F-OHPM · « **Reply #7 on:** January 01, 2014, 02:16:19 am »

I don't have any other addon that can make FSX run in compatibility but I will check the AAA

F-OHPM · « **Reply #8 on:** January 02, 2014, 06:02:12 am »

Correct me if I'm wrong but I can't seem to find it in the manual the closest is adaptive AA.

virtuali · « **Reply #9 on:** January 02, 2014, 09:41:53 am »

Quote from: F-OHPM on January 02, 2014, 06:02:12 am

Correct me if I'm wrong but I can't seem to find it in the manual the closest is adaptive AA.

That's what I've said. It's either called Transparency Antialiasing, or AAA ( AAA = Adaptive AA )

F-OHPM · « **Reply #10 on:** January 03, 2014, 09:26:57 am »

Hmmn... I checked it says it is using the application settings for AA and since I have an AMD there is no "AAA" .

(Is this right?If it isn't, sorry

and how could I correct this?)

virtuali · « **Reply #11 on:** January 03, 2014, 01:44:34 pm »

Quote from: F-OHPM on January 03, 2014, 09:26:57 am

Hmmn... I checked it says it is using the application settings for AA and since I have an AMD there is no "AAA" .

As I've said, Adaptive Antialiasing, on AMD, it's the same as AAA. You seems to have it set to Multisampling, so it's not set. Try other settings too. Also, try to reset all your video card settings to default.

I'm sorry, but I can only repeat and confirm that, the only known causes for objects appearing ONLY when getting close, is the "Compatibility" mode enabled ( by FSX or another add-on that runs together with it ), or the AAA.

F-OHPM · « **Reply #12 on:** January 04, 2014, 12:03:15 am »

Quote from: virtuali on January 03, 2014, 01:44:34 pm

As I've said, Adaptive Antialiasing, on AMD, it's the same as AAA. You seems to have it set to Multisampling, so it's not set. Try other settings too. Also, try to reset all your video card settings to default.

I'm sorry, but I can only repeat and confirm that, the only known causes for objects appearing ONLY when getting close, is the "Compatibility" mode enabled ( by FSX or another add-on that runs together with it ), or the AAA.

Oh well at least you tried..
I've tried putting the AA settings to super-sampling and didn't work I've also tried resetting to default settings and double checked all of my addons (and FSX) for compatibility settings but still no change. Could it be my graphics card (specs are in my signature)

F-OHPM · « **Reply #13 on:** February 16, 2014, 08:14:03 am »

I have found a fix! I think...

I had the coatl in non compatibility mode. I put it to compatibility mode ran FSX opened up CYVR and (of course no buildings) I turned compatibility mode off and ran FSX again it then had all the buildings.

UPDATE: False alarm thins are still disappearing and I still don't know why. I did everything- reinstalled every FSDT scenery over 4 times tweaked my video card till every setting was tested, checked anything possible with compatibility issues, and updated video cards and drivers. I even did the opposite of what you're supposed to do (turned AAA and compatibility on).

This also happened on my older computer which I replaced a few months ago (Windows 7 intel)

Any other suggestions Virtuali? I'd be happy to give you as much info on my computer you need.

virtuali · « **Reply #14 on:** February 16, 2014, 11:08:29 pm »

Quote from: F-OHPM on February 16, 2014, 08:14:03 am

Any other suggestions Virtuali? I'd be happy to give you as much info on my computer you need.

As I've said the only KNOWN causes for objects appearing ONLY when getting close, is the "Compatibility" mode enabled ( by FSX or another add-on that runs together with it ), or the AAA.

If you will eventually find what was causing this on YOUR system, we'll might add it to the known causes too. It surely doesn't happen here or can be replicated in any way.

Have you tried lowering the texture resolution in the CYVR installer ? Perhaps you are just using too much memory with your other installed add-ons, so there's not enough memory left to run CYVR safely. Which is why, CYVR give you some options to save memory. And, you can try using DX10.

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