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Blocky Jet Exhaust and Tire Smoke

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1970LT1

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Some weird stuff started happening to my jet exhaust and tire smoke. It looks like a bunch of black squares instead of smoke. Anyone have any ideas? Corrupted effects file?

Regards,

LT1
 
I would suspect the video card is getting tired, or it has dust packed in or on it and it's getting hot
 
Video card could be getting too hot, how long since you cleaned the dust out of the heatsink and fan? Oh, any recent updating of your video card drivers?
 
In some cases, that could also be a missing texture or two in the "effects\texture" folder. I've had that problem from time to time with aircraft lights.:salute:
 
My guess would be a missing texture file associated with the corresponding effect. Open the aircraft.cfg file and scroll down to the affected effect. Next, go to the effects folder and open up the affected effect. See if you can decipher which texture is associated with that effect and then make sure it's in the "..\effects\texture" folder. If not, that's your problem. You'll have to re-install that particular texture.
 
I had a similar situation, and was able to remedy it using the FSX disk and the "Repair" option. It's most likely a corrupted file if the problem is persistent.
 
Thanks guys. I'll try repairing with the FSX disk and if that doesn't work, I'll take a look at the video card. The system's only about 15 months old and it's an Alienware, so it should be pretty high quality. I'm just wondering if it's a texture issue, how something got corrupted. That effect has always worked fine and I don't recall doing anything lately to change it, although I did recently buy a few payware planes.

Regards,

LT1
 
Guys, just to let you know, it was a bad texture file in the effects folder, I believe the smoke texture. I installed FSX fresh on another computer, and copied the texture files from that puter to my gaming puter install. That did the trick.

Regards,

LT1
 
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