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Problem with mipmaps?

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So....I've been converting scenery for Boston from Google Warehouse models. Started working on the State Street Financial building and had it all ready to go with mipmapped textures. Loaded up FS9 and it later crashes and says FS9 has run out of memory. Got rid of the mipmaps and just went for a straight texture and it works. My question is why and should I not use mipmaps in the future or what?

What was also weird was that the mipmap textures worked in FSX yet not in FS9 with the same scenery installed in both simulators (wanted a constant).

Any help would be appreciated.

Eric
 
Hi Eric,

In general the advice is to use mipmaps, they are better for the performance and textures without mipmaps sometimes give blurry textures.

Did you still use dxt textures when you removed the mipmaps?

I haven't heard of memory problems due to mipmaps before. Do you have a lot of textures, so that they take up so much memory?
 
I got it working. Some of the textures were corrupted and made fs9 keep loading up memory. However, I have another question for you. Sometimes when flying, the mip maps of default scenery seem not to load and be corrupted. I plan on eventually taking out all the default scenery I can but want to know if there is a way to fix this. (See pic)

Thanks so much for your help.

corrupted.jpg
 
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