Level of Detail

Chief Captain
ceetee Chief Captain
Joined: Nov 30, 2005 Posts: 1111
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Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:26 am

Recently during Multiplayer sessions, the aircraft textures go blurrie from a far distance and I have to zoom in to correct them.

Its really annoying and never usually happens, yet it effects all my aircraft from the default 737 to my payware cessnas!

Does anyone know how I can advoid it, in the display settings my aircraft level of detail is set to the max with all the options ticked and I have an nVidia GeForce FX 5600 video card that has 256mb memory!

Thanks

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RadarMan Chief Captain
Joined: Aug 25, 2003 Posts: 17934 Location: U.S.A
Answered
Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:38 pm

It's the amount of ram (memory) that helps texture rendering, the more you have the quicker the scenery and textures "come on" instead of waiting for them to click on while your watching.

Radar

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ceetee Chief Captain
Joined: Nov 30, 2005 Posts: 1111
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Tue Dec 20, 2005 10:27 pm

Well I have 256mb ram on my video card and 768mb ram on my motherboard, and it hasnt been a problem before! 😕

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RadarMan Chief Captain
Joined: Aug 25, 2003 Posts: 17934 Location: U.S.A
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Wed Dec 21, 2005 1:00 am

The LOD (level of detail) on some aircraft can stop your computer. I don't have a power-house and a few have given me a slide show.
You may be using much of that ram on programs running in the background.

Have you tried this program yet.

https://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/files/2948/fsautostart-v11/

Radar

Chief Captain
ceetee Chief Captain
Joined: Nov 30, 2005 Posts: 1111
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Fri Dec 23, 2005 5:34 am

Thanks for the link 😀

Chief Captain
ceetee Chief Captain
Joined: Nov 30, 2005 Posts: 1111
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Fri Dec 23, 2005 8:32 am

I'm just about to start a flightsim session and I'm wondering what programs to disable:

I also have hunderds of 'Services' running and dont know what most of them are, so should I which ones should I disable???

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lkw First Officer
Joined: May 31, 2005 Posts: 414 Location: Spokane Valley
Answered
Fri Dec 23, 2005 5:05 pm

If you hover your cursor over the action you will get a recomendation start with that.

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RadarMan Chief Captain
Joined: Aug 25, 2003 Posts: 17934 Location: U.S.A
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Fri Dec 23, 2005 5:58 pm

Read this site and it'll help you choose what to shut down.

http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php

Radar

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Tartanaviation First Officer
Joined: Oct 10, 2003 Posts: 223 Location: Scotland, UK
Answered
Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:40 pm

Personally i would close quit alot of those background files whilst running flight sim. I Would definitely close msn messenger, screenhunter, itunes, ipodservice and internet explorer. Basically i would close everything that appears when i run task manager to make sure everything is going to my FS. Afterall i am trying to use the flightsimulator, not arrange files on my Ipod.

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