Sky: Good, Ground: Bad - FMS has problems showing ground.

[mirage]

Hi

I just installed FMS and I'm now experiencing a strange problem: When I start the simulator, there's only a black screen or I see the runway without an aircraft. Then I press 'F' for more thrust, I hear the sound, the plane starts (And I still don't see it, I just hear!). As soon as the plane reaches some altitude and the whole screen is filled out with sky, a normal view appears, frame rate of over 500. As soon as I fly a bit lower and ground comes in view, the game nearly stopps, there's a graphic-frame rate of not even 1 picture per second, I think.

In summary: Only sky on screen is ok, ground is bad.

My System: Windows XP Pro (German, you see it in my english :p ), Pentium 4, 3.2 GHz, 512 MB DDR2 RAM, Intel Mainboard, PCI-E X600XT with 128 MB graphics.

greetz

Michael who absolutely likes the Mirage III

[TheBat]

Hello Mirage!

I have this problem too! I think it may be video card. My configuration: P4 3 GHz, 1 Gb RAM, RADEON 9600 256 Mb. Possibly, it depend of Radeon chip.

If somebody solved this problem, type please!

[bindibadgi]

I have exactly the same problem! Is there still no fix?

My configuration: P4 3 GHz, 512 Mb RAM, RADEON 9800 128 Mb

[bindibadgi]

It appears to be DirectX related. If I turn off Direct3D, then FMS works. Sky and ground. Of course the graphics are pretty chunky and the framerate is only 4 frames per second!

Any suggestions?