stupid slow texture loading

[jackryan172]

I know this has been covered a million times but Im having some texture loading issues and I can seem to figure out what I changed that is causing the terrain textures to load slow. I mean I have my fs9 install on an its own SSD and I have a 3.8G 6 core AMD proc with 16G of ram and a Geforce GTX750 Ti w/4G of DDR3.

here are samples of what I mean.
When Im flying I get this:

and this:

when I pause the sim and wait Ill get this:

and finally this will "catch up"

here are the snippets from my fs9.cfg:

[DISPLAY.Device.NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti.0]
Mode=1920x1080x32
TriLinear=1
AntiAlias=1
MipBias=7
[DISPLAY]
UPPER_FRAMERATE_LIMIT=65
TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=800
TextureMaxLoad=2048
RUNWAY_LIGHTS_SURFACE_SCALAR=0.7
RUNWAY_LIGHTS_VASI_SCALAR=0.7
RUNWAY_LIGHTS_APPROACH_SCALAR=1.0
RUNWAY_LIGHTS_STROBE_SCALAR=1.0
[TERRAIN]
TERRAIN_ERROR_FACTOR=90.000000
TERRAIN_MIN_DEM_AREA=0.000000
TERRAIN_MAX_DEM_AREA=200.000000
TERRAIN_MAX_VERTEX_LEVEL=21
TERRAIN_TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=8
TERRAIN_AUTOGEN_DENSITY=5
TERRAIN_USE_GRADIENT_MAP=1
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_TEXTURES=1
TERRAIN_DEFAULT_RADIUS=18
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_RADIUS=9
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_LEVELS=4
[SCENERY]
IMAGE_COMPLEXITY=5
DYNAMIC_SCENERY=1
DYN_SCN_DENSITY=4
DAWN_DUSK_SMOOTHING=1
SUNGLARE=1
LENSFLARE=1

Thanks,
Sean

 

[Motormouse]

Try running DXT fixer, usual cause of scenery blurring is a DXT texture error.

Just point the program at your main fs folder, it will do the rest.

Ttfn

Pete

 

[Dev One]

Texture max load=2048 seems very high for fs9. My FS9 is 512, whilst my FSX is 1024.
Keith

 

[lemonadedrinker]

Hi,
Sometimes adding a scenery can do that I think.

 

[wombat666]

Reset your frame rate to around 30FPS, running 65FPS is not required and could be contributing to the problem.

 

[Dev One]

I've set my FS9 now to 1024 & FSX to 2048, both are graphically on ultra high settings & I'm not seeing to much of a hit on fps when set to unlimited, IIRC FS9 giving about 60+ & FSX about 12+, & a little bit juddery at times, but that does have JF VFR scenery. Does not seem to affect loading time.
Keith

 

[Blackbird686]

Try running DXT fixer, usual cause of scenery blurring is a DXT texture error.

Just point the program at your main fs folder, it will do the rest.

Ttfn

Pete

It has been my experience that a repaint for an aircraft model has always been the culprit... Pete hit the nail on the head, before DXTfixer, I used to have to look at each texture individually to ferret out the error.

BB686

 

[Tom Clayton]

I was thinking I'd seen this before on an older rig, but didn't want to post until I could remember the culprit. In my case, it was actually a model that was the culprit. Try changing the texture= line in one of the cfg entries and see what happens with an unpainted plane. If you still get the same results, switch to a stock MS plane like the Beech Baron. If you're still having the same issue with the Baron, try switching panels - in my case, the culprit turned out to be a gauge running in a loop that ate up every available resource in my system.