DirectX 10 (DX10) in Flight Simulator (FSX) - Flickering

This video is part of the supplementary material for an article on DirectX 9 (DX9) and DirectX 10 (DX10) in Microsoft Flight Simulator (FSX) at: http://www.flightsimulationguru.com/site/2008/02/18/directx-10-in-microsoft-f...

The video shows a nice example of the widely complained about 'flickering' problems with the implementation of DX10 in FSX. In these examples, all settings were exactly the same between the DX9 and DX10 based FSX captures. All the graphics settings were maxed out except for the autogen scenery.

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Science & Technology

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• aviation
• space
• computer
• flight
• simulator
• fsx
• directx
• 10
• dx10
• flickering
• video
• game

[niddam]

I have the same Problem. In your following videos ,you don`t have this Problem anymore. How did you solve the Problem? Please tell us. Good Video!

[flightsimulationguru]

Glad you liked the video and thanks for the comment.

The short answer is that the later videos all use DX9, which doesn't have this problem. Although DX10 has somewhat better fps performance, the only place where that really makes a difference is near the ground... where these flickering problems occur.

I've not heard of any 'solution' to the problem, but if anyone finds one or knows of one certainly drop me a line and I'll make a video about it.

[G1Ravage]

Ah, good to know I'm not the only one with that flickering problem.

Hopefully the FS team will make a patch for that.

[flightsimulationguru]

"Hopefully the FS team will make a patch for that."

Agreed... however Microsoft just laid off the FS team so if it's not been fixed yet then I wouldn't hold your breath ;-(.

One of the main reasons for making the video was so that others knew it wasn't just them... so glad you liked it! ;-)

[tysiek123]

I have textures flickering in DX10 mode and after about 10-15 minutes my computer is freezing. It's no matter where I am flying and what plane do I use. I tryed all settings and it's still flickering and then freezing !

Next problem is that I'm using PMDG 747-400 X (most new version) and my crt panels in cockpit are working on fucking DX10 but not in DX9 ! Nothing is crashing in DX9 so it's ok, but man... PMDG !!!

[flightsimulationguru]

I've mainly given up on FSX in DX-10 for the time being. There are just too many bugs (the flickering is really annoying for sure) and so far as I can see there is absolutely no difference in the quality of the graphics (see the examples in my article linked to this video). There is some increase in fps performance, but beyond about 25 fps one really can't notice much difference so unless you're really scraping for fps then there isn't much point in using DX-10 for now.

[TheAviationDreamer]

so what is the solution ?

[zurinok]

I decided to switch to go to FS, I waslike: I dont want to seethis happenin further. But I think, (I'm not sure, because I'm not using FSX right now, I do have a setup for the future), that i have a fix, email for the fix:

zourabmoussaev@yahoo.com

Dont shoot me down if this doenst do any good :)

[legomaster335]

@zurinok my directx 10 is fucking up my plane liveries, how do i fix that?

[vic70cent]

fucking fsx firs i have to spend close to 2,000 us dollar all the fucking add-on and now this fucking problem fuck,,,, fuck,,,fuckkkkkkkk,,,, fsx

[zurinok]

My DX10 works perfect on FSX.

But when i disable it, the screen begins to flicker (showing two views at the same time) when I use walk and follow or any other camera software!

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mulleolsen]

I lose the Anti Aliasing when on DX10

[yerafo06]

man I was everywhere looking for help for that... listen does direct x 11 have the same problem?

[Sebas3440]

@scrap1005

Well, of course the bugs will still be there. It's DX10 after all. xD

[scrap1005]

@Sebas3440, I got GTX470, it's awesome and give me really fast frame rates in fsx! But some of these dx10 bugs are still there. My runway looks pretty good, but some textures flicker on and off. Otherwise it all looks ok.

[scrap1005]

Well I finally got a system that runs FSX fast. i7 at 3.8ghz, tons of ram and nvidia gtx 470 which is quiet, runs great and doesn't over heat like they claimed. But with no updates for FSX it just looks like an old game. The only hope was DX10, but even that makes weird textures flicker for me too. Not only is there no flight simulator 11, but they don't even bring a few simple updates to fix small bugs like this. That's probably a sign they've dropped fsx all together...

[JonnyBgr]

How to fix this probleem I like DX10 aless using FPS and If set on DX9 more slower

but no Flickering