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DVA1679
Senior Captain, A320
Joined on May 16 2004
Triple Century Club
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"flightdeckproductions.com" Utica, MI USA
322 legs, 620.4 hours
300 legs,
591.4 hours online 115 legs,
194.0 hours ACARS 5 legs,
11.3 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
February 17 2009 13:40 ET by Larry Foltran
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Not sure what add-on it's associated with, but I sometimes get black boxes where lights should be (ground or air) when switching to look out the side. They only stick around for a second or two, but it's still annoying to see a dozen or two black boxes on the screen. Has anyone else experienced this? This is in FSX by the way.
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DVA6695
Captain, MD-88
Joined on November 26 2008
Century Club
Online Century Club
"We are....Penn State" Phoenixville, PA USA
153 legs, 206.0 hours
108 legs,
149.6 hours online 149 legs,
200.2 hours ACARS 11 legs,
20.0 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
February 17 2009 14:56 ET by Jack Urie
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Yep, it's happened to me both before and after I installed UTX and GEX. I think I've only experienced this at KATL, but not sure... Might have something to do with the graphics settings (I use NHancer).
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DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP
Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
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"Col. Panic" Marietta, GA
2,241 legs, 8,967.3 hours
240 legs,
553.9 hours online 1,899 legs,
7,760.4 hours ACARS 75 legs,
196.3 hours event 2,277 legs, 9,102.2 hours total 91 legs dispatched, 66.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
February 17 2009 14:59 ET by Luke Kolin
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I see that regularly with FSX. Another "feature" I suspect. Out of curiosity, how much RAM on your video card?
Cheers!
Luke KolinSenior Captain, MD-11
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AFV153
Senior Captain, A320
Joined on January 12 2009
Double Century Club
"Brace yourselves this might be bumpy" Sandwell GB
207 legs, 362.1 hours
207 legs,
362.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
February 17 2009 15:08 ET by Dave Gandolfo
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Yeah, I also get that, I guess it is FSX moving the textures into memory on the GFX card and so there is a slight delay, hence the back box where the texture hasnt yet been loaded. I only have a 256MB Gfx card abd so I think the lack of memory causes it on my system.
I dont know if this would be resolved by getting a newer GFX card with 512-1024MB.
Dave
Dave GandolfoSenior Captain, A320
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DVA3196
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP, COMM
Joined on June 03 2006
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
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"pitchpowertrim.com" Anderson, MO
619 legs, 1,093.4 hours
292 legs,
503.1 hours online 580 legs,
1,026.5 hours ACARS 89 legs,
191.0 hours event 236 legs dispatched, 110.1
hours
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Posted onPost created on
February 17 2009 15:12 ET by Michael Brown
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I have seen that too .... I have a Nvidia 8800+ GTX 512MB video card, Core i7 902, 6GB RAM .... i still get the black boxes.
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DVA1679
Senior Captain, A320
Joined on May 16 2004
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
"flightdeckproductions.com" Utica, MI USA
322 legs, 620.4 hours
300 legs,
591.4 hours online 115 legs,
194.0 hours ACARS 5 legs,
11.3 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
February 17 2009 15:12 ET by Larry Foltran
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I'm running a GTX280 card with 1GB. I wouldn't think I would encouter any problems with that.
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DVA6659
Captain, B737-800
Joined on November 22 2008
"Long live the Jungle Jets" Atlanta, GA USA
61 legs, 116.1 hours
58 legs,
111.7 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
February 17 2009 15:20 ET by Trevor Schmidt
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Same here, doesn't bother me that bad.
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DVA5974
Captain, B777-200
Joined on May 27 2008
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
Basking Ridge, NJ USA
324 legs, 1,326.6 hours
319 legs,
1,305.4 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
February 17 2009 15:29 ET by Nikolay Klimchuk
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I saw the boxes on GTX260 with 894MB onboard
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DVA6983
Captain, B737-800
Joined on February 07 2009
Century Club
""Can't, never did anything.."" Phoenix, AZ USA
125 legs, 233.4 hours
4 legs,
7.2 hours online 125 legs,
233.4 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
February 17 2009 18:23 ET by Dale Westlund
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I was getting those also and it all went away when I started using "windowed" mode in FSX.. It does'nt like to run with ACARS and FSInn etc in full screen mode.. Try switching to windowed mode and see what happens..
Cheers..
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DVA3196
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP, COMM
Joined on June 03 2006
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
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"pitchpowertrim.com" Anderson, MO
619 legs, 1,093.4 hours
292 legs,
503.1 hours online 580 legs,
1,026.5 hours ACARS 89 legs,
191.0 hours event 236 legs dispatched, 110.1
hours
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Posted onPost created on
February 17 2009 19:26 ET by Michael Brown
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Im running ACARS via WideFS on a laptop in full screen mode ... still see "black boxes". I also see occasional green ones too. I do not think there is anything we can do about it.
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