Dover AFB

[jimrodger]

I discovered a scenery for Dover AFB on Flightsim by John B. Loney, Jr.

The screenshots looked interesting, so I thought I'd give it a go.

Every time I try to load it I get a CTD. No matter what season/timespec.

Anybody else tried and succeeded?


Jim

[Stewart Pearson]

Jim,

Do you have our Galaxy package installed? (AMC C-5 East). That came with an afcad for KDOV, which may be causing the conflict.

[jimrodger]

I disabled it before trying & then installed into a fresh "Test" FS9 installation.
It seems to fall over when trying to load some photo-real textures. Possibly not there in the download?

All the very best to you, & here's hoping the health probs stay away this year.

[Stewart Pearson]

Thanks Jim.

You could always kick out the photoreal stuff and see if it makes a difference.

[John Young]

I don't have the scenery so I can't test this, but it sounds like the classic problem of seasonal textures. Custom ground textures, including photo-real ones are often just summer ones. If there are no winter textures for example and you happen to load the scenery in that season, it will cause FS9 to crash. Whenever I make custom ground textures I always include a full set of seasonal textures, even if that's just renamed duplicate sets of the summer ones. Try launching the scenery in summer and see if it stays put. If it does, the solution, is to duplicate the texture set and rename each seat, _WI, _FA etc. Might not be that, but worth a quick test.

John

[jimrodger]

Fixed, spoke to author and he'd forgotten some textures.

Jim

[Stewart Pearson]

Fixed, spoke to author and he'd forgotten some textures.

Jim

Glad you got it sorted mate.

[petebramley]

I Have D/L this scenery but not yet installed it. What's it like ??

[jimrodger]

A few "anomalies" on the airfield textures,
Lots of nice building & scenery around the camp.
Once I'd removed the static aircraft from the museum & the flight line I was a lot happier with it.

Well worth a look in my opinion.

Jim

[Firebird]

What were the textures that the author forgot? Just so nobody else gets the same trouble you did.

[jimrodger]

It turned out to be the adjacent Doyles airport (de00_fs9.zip from Flightsim) that was missing the textures.
An update has been released with the missing textures.

Jim

[petebramley]

Thanks Jim

Its on my Roundtuit list. Which is getting longer by the week.