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Black Dots/Tiles/Squares on screen

Postby Ger272 » Sun May 06, 2018 8:37 pm

Hello everybody,
I updated flightgear to FG 2018.1.1. Now I have black dots/tiles/squard in my screen. They disappear when I have a open window on the screen (e.g. Map, MP-Pilots) or by disabling anti-aliasing. Any Idea how to fix without graphic loss? No problem with FG2017.3.1 with same setup.
Thanks

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With open window:
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Re: Black Dots/Tiles/Squares on screen

Postby wkitty42 » Mon May 07, 2018 11:50 am

do you see this if you close the window and only have the F10 menu bar shown?
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
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Re: Black Dots/Tiles/Squares on screen

Postby Ger272 » Mon May 07, 2018 6:40 pm

It is gone if I run FG in a window
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Re: Black Dots/Tiles/Squares on screen

Postby wkitty42 » Tue May 08, 2018 5:52 pm

so you only see it full screen?

do you see it when full screen and only have the F10 menu open and no other in-sim dialogs?
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
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