P3D loading

[dhazelgrove]

Here's a puzzle:

I load an aircraft and scenery. The sim starts to load everything and the progress bar gets to completion, showing 100%.

I then get a black screen and...…. nothing. It just sits until I force an exit.

Any ideas?

Dave

[jeansy]

Do you use a 3rd party shader program like PTA or reshade?

Those programs can force a shader rebuild after each session load, i have the same issue however mine may take several seconds each time.

[DaleRFU]

I have the same issue but mine eventually comes on after about 5 seconds.

[wombat666]

Have you run the repair option yet?
I usually need to clear out most of standard aircraft (that I don't care for) after the repair operation but it generally works.

[dhazelgrove]

Do you use a 3rd party shader program like PTA or reshade?

Those programs can force a shader rebuild after each session load, i have the same issue however mine may take several seconds each time.

I don't use a third-party shader, no.

I have the same issue but mine eventually comes on after about 5 seconds.

I'm talking 20 minutes of nothing.

How do I clear/delete the shaders?

Dave

[Brytskiva]

Look here

[dhazelgrove]

Cured.

I tried deleting the shaders, but that made no difference -- so I did a 'repair' on the client. I then deleted a few scenery areas and the combination has worked.

Back in business.

Dave

[Navy Chief]

Cured.

I tried deleting the shaders, but that made no difference -- so I did a 'repair' on the client. I then deleted a few scenery areas and the combination has worked.

Back in business.

Dave

It is MOST frustrating when things like this happen. Over the years, it has caused my blood pressure to rise more than a few times!! Glad you got it working again! NC

[dhazelgrove]

I think it all started when I got interested in MD-11 cargo operations, courtesy of a couple of videos I found on YouTube.
I tried to recreate some of Lufthansa Cargo's routes out of Frankfurt (EDDF) to Mumbai (VABB), Hong Kong (VHHH - see attached) and Novosibirsk (UNNT).

(fx:rant!!)
Novosibirsk has been nothing but trouble, in that the AFCAD has suitable parking -- but it isn't connected to the taxiway system, so isn't useable.
It's easily fixable, but recompiling makes the buildings disappear.
(/fx)
It's one of the items I've uninstalled.

Ah, well. Back to the Tweet.....

Dave

[modelr]

Cured.

I tried deleting the shaders, but that made no difference -- so I did a 'repair' on the client. I then deleted a few scenery areas and the combination has worked.

Back in business.

Dave

It was the scenery areas. I am an incorrigible collector, and I have more sceneries in my collection than I'll ever be able to install and visit. I have all of Megascenery's V3 photoreal for the entire USA. When I first loaded them, it took almost four hours for the sim to sort and load them in first boot, then when I started a flight to explore just my home states, Iowa and Southern California, it took almost two hours to load the flights.

Long story short: I now use Scenery Config Editor to turn off the states I will not be flying over for a particular flight, and now I boot in less than 5 min, (mostly because of all the aircraft and textures installed,) and a flight loads in barely over a minute.

Also, if you have a lot of ORBX scenery, it will do the same thing.