Kevin Cartrette wrote:Hey Chok,
We tried to replicate the above screen shot in Dubai and were unable to get any lights to show up. We attempted loading at the location and flying in without any success inside the internal builds.
What version of Dubai are you using?
Have you been able to get into cases were they did not show up at all?
What are your scenery settings, windows version and graphics driver settings?
Thanks for the additional information,
-Kevin.
Hello Kevin
As of now it seems to work pretty consistently as written in the post above, the lighting/fog work if you load the sim fresh and don’t work if you fly into them from somewhere else.
I just completed a flight before writing this, where I flew from Oslo to somewhere else and then back to Oslo, without shutting down the sim. The night lighting worked when I came back to the Oslo. So the conclusion is still that it only fail to work when you load a scenery in “on the fly”. I have not seen it not work as long as you load the sim fresh as a final answer to your question.
Scenery versions:
Dubai: V2.4 (Latest)
Vienna: V2.7 (latest)
Oslo: V2 Rev. 1.07 (latest)
Windows:
Current windows version: Windows 10 home
Version: 1607
Build: 14393.321
Nvidia settings:
Nvidia GTX 1080 driver 372.54. (I hope it is okay from NI it gives a bit more options, tell me if you want the NIP or the ones from the Nvidia control center)
https://gyazo.com/35ef57a818937607ccdd93fe47ba8b26
https://gyazo.com/eb6d10f4997b2bba26630d3442cecf74
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[DEBUG]
ReportLoadErrors=0
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