yorkieflyer 0 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 I've just bought London Heathrow, and I believe this airport has much more potential than any other LHR products currently on the market (once it has been tweaked correctly or my computer). I understand that I'm asking a lot for an older computer to be able to run this airport at it's full potential, however i'm wondering if you could help on a number of things. Although i have disabled and or uninstalled all other 3rd party scenery for LHR, there seems to be a flickering between two texture sets when I use Heathrow Xteneded. Could this is the result of my computer struggling to run high res textures, and Is there a lower res texture set for Heathrow Xteneded? Or could this be a result of something not set up quite right in my scenery library? Heathrow Xtended is currently at the top of my scenery library, where I assume that it should take priority over any other sceneries. I'm going to keep fiddling with settings and stuff, but look forward in anticipation to any advice that can be offered here. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted September 5, 2014 Aerosoft Share Posted September 5, 2014 I would first of all try a clean FSX.cfg as we seen most of theses issues caused by that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deputy Sheriffs mopperle 4162 Posted September 5, 2014 Deputy Sheriffs Share Posted September 5, 2014 Hi, to help you it would be good if you - tell us what other scenery addons you have installed - make a screenshot to show us where the flickering happens - tell us about your system specification (Hardware, OS, settings in FSX....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt. Oveur 63 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Same here, but only with Orbx ftx EU England ("hybrid" mode FTX Global). See screenshots below: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deputy Sheriffs mopperle 4162 Posted September 5, 2014 Deputy Sheriffs Share Posted September 5, 2014 Seems as if there are some default buildings interfering. Did you try to lower your scenery complexity settings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted September 5, 2014 Aerosoft Share Posted September 5, 2014 But default scenery should be disabled, we'll ask the developer to advise us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmangham 30 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 I'm having problems with ground textures. I changed my sim settings to 7cm texture res. It's the only Heathrow active in my scenery library, no other afcad for heathrow is active. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer Autopiloth 462 Posted September 5, 2014 Developer Share Posted September 5, 2014 2014-9-5_14-14-44-147.jpg2014-9-5_14-16-15-406.jpg2014-9-5_14-16-23-4.jpgI'm having problems with ground textures. I changed my sim settings to 7cm texture res. It's the only Heathrow active in my scenery library, no other afcad for heathrow is active. HI, judging the screenshots there must be another afcad or senery active. We exclude the visual afcad and I can clearly see a large Afcad RWY below the ground. Also this must be the reason for the ground flickering. Please check again. Thorsten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer Autopiloth 462 Posted September 5, 2014 Developer Share Posted September 5, 2014 Same here, but only with Orbx ftx EU England ("hybrid" mode FTX Global). See screenshots below: Hi, for an unknown reason ORBX installs AFCAD and default building files at FSX\ORBX\FTX_EU\FTX_EU_ENG_05_SCENERY\scenery which are ignored by our excludes (and maybe can come back while switching, so please keep this in mind): Rename ADE_FTX_ENG_EGLL.BGL to ADE_FTX_ENG_EGLL.OFF and ADE_FTX_ENG_EGLL_objects.BGL to ADE_FTX_ENG_EGLL_objects.OFF Please report if problem is solved. Thorsten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmangham 30 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 2014-9-5_14-14-44-147.jpg2014-9-5_14-16-15-406.jpg2014-9-5_14-16-23-4.jpgI'm having problems with ground textures. I changed my sim settings to 7cm texture res. It's the only Heathrow active in my scenery library, no other afcad for heathrow is active. As you can see here from my screenshots the problem lies in your afcad. As you can see the makings on the runway are very wide and if you look on your afcad the runways are to wide. And I took out Heathrow from my scenery library to see if any other afcads are presented and it turns there no other afcad as you can see in the screen shot below. I have typed EGLL into the airport search and nothing apears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt. Oveur 63 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Hi, for an unknown reason ORBX installs AFCAD and default building files at FSX\ORBX\FTX_EU\FTX_EU_ENG_05_SCENERY\scenery which are ignored by our excludes (and maybe can come back while switching, so please keep this in mind): Rename ADE_FTX_ENG_EGLL.BGL to ADE_FTX_ENG_EGLL.OFF and ADE_FTX_ENG_EGLL_objects.BGL to ADE_FTX_ENG_EGLL_objects.OFF Please report if problem is solved. Thorsten Now it's working! And maybe even a bit better FPS... Thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer Autopiloth 462 Posted September 5, 2014 Developer Share Posted September 5, 2014 @dmangham OK, very wired Our RWY is wide, but the visual model is excluded by the file LHRXAirport/scenery/EGLL_EXC.BGL. Please check if present. (I attached the small file so you can test if RWY dissapears and your installation failed. Also, if our AFCAD is visable it will NOT show the huge concrete area beneath. The very wired: When removing HeathrowXtended from scenery library your FSX should find EGLL anyway (the default EGLL which CANNOT be deleted just substituted when adding add on afcads at higer entries. So there must be something excluding the default without new data. How to proceed: Please use ADE to search for EGLL afcads. Search for files like EGLL*.bgl or *EGLL*.bgl at your FSX for other possible culprits. If using ORBX: Follow the advice I gave at this tread for deactivating their AFCAD and buidlings Do not alter our AFX file with ADE. use it "as it comes" or use AFX to edit it. Deinstall and reinstall the scenery as there is allways the possibility of a corupted download. Thorsten EGLL_EXC.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jude 190 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Thanks Thorsten, I'm not at home,but will try this later. ATB Jude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmangham 30 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Hi Thorsten, I have tried uninstalling then re-installing but that didn't work. I also put that file in the scenery folder but that made no difference. The reason for the default airport not showing in the airport list is because I deleted the file. (Which is in EURW scenery folder). I do appreciate you trying to help. Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deputy Sheriffs mopperle 4162 Posted September 5, 2014 Deputy Sheriffs Share Posted September 5, 2014 The reason for the default airport not showing in the airport list is because I deleted the file. (Which is in EURW scenery folder). I've the bad feeling, you somehow messed up your system. You should never delete any files. Maybe rename them so you can restore them any time, but not deleting. What else scenery do you have installed? Any freeware, any traffic tool? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmangham 30 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 I've the bad feeling, you somehow messed up your system. You should never delete any files. Maybe rename them so you can restore them any time, but not deleting. What else scenery do you have installed? Any freeware, any traffic tool? I had UK2000 heathrow on with no problems. I have quite a few UK2000 products and they are all fine. I run fsx with no ai. I also have horizon vfr scenery for england, wales and scotland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deputy Sheriffs mopperle 4162 Posted September 5, 2014 Deputy Sheriffs Share Posted September 5, 2014 How did you uninstall UK2000 Heathrow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer Autopiloth 462 Posted September 5, 2014 Developer Share Posted September 5, 2014 And maybe you could deactivate LondonHeathrowExtendedAirport (keep LHRXTerrain active) and post a screenshot? Did you search for *EGLL*.bgl files outside LHRXtended? And, btw, why did you delete the default Airport afcad? Thorsten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmangham 30 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 I unistalled via the add/remove programs and yes I searched for the files and nothing came up. I will post a screenshot without Airport active. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer Autopiloth 462 Posted September 5, 2014 Developer Share Posted September 5, 2014 Maybe a silly question: Is the LHRXtended Airport scenery above Horizon in your scenery Library or below? Same with Terrain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmangham 30 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Maybe a silly question: Is the LHRXtended Airport scenery above Horizon in your scenery Library or below? Same with Terrain. Both are above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer Autopiloth 462 Posted September 5, 2014 Developer Share Posted September 5, 2014 Will it solve the problem when you move LHRXtendedAirport below horizon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmangham 30 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 From the screenshot it seems I may have an aerial photo image somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer Autopiloth 462 Posted September 5, 2014 Developer Share Posted September 5, 2014 thanks, that looks quite normal (considering that the airport is deactivated). Could you post a picture with Airport activated (above Horizon if below didnt help) from the same perspective? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmangham 30 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 putting it below didn't work so I put it back on top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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