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Dover AFB

Posted: 09 Jan 2014, 19:47
by 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

Re: Dover AFB

Posted: 09 Jan 2014, 20:02
by 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.

Re: Dover AFB

Posted: 09 Jan 2014, 20:05
by 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.

Re: Dover AFB

Posted: 09 Jan 2014, 20:20
by Stewart Pearson
Thanks Jim.

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

Re: Dover AFB

Posted: 09 Jan 2014, 20:31
by 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

Re: Dover AFB

Posted: 10 Jan 2014, 11:16
by jimrodger
Fixed, spoke to author and he'd forgotten some textures.

Jim

Re: Dover AFB

Posted: 10 Jan 2014, 11:38
by Stewart Pearson
jimrodger wrote:Fixed, spoke to author and he'd forgotten some textures.

Jim
Glad you got it sorted mate.

Re: Dover AFB

Posted: 10 Jan 2014, 16:14
by petebramley
I Have D/L this scenery but not yet installed it. What's it like ??

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Re: Dover AFB

Posted: 10 Jan 2014, 19:47
by 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

Re: Dover AFB

Posted: 11 Jan 2014, 11:58
by Firebird
What were the textures that the author forgot? Just so nobody else gets the same trouble you did.

Re: Dover AFB

Posted: 11 Jan 2014, 16:18
by 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

Re: Dover AFB

Posted: 11 Jan 2014, 16:56
by petebramley
Thanks Jim

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