On my 5th reinstall, clearly need advice.

[TFS]

I got Afghan day one, I loved it and was thrilled for what was to come. Had to uninstall & reinstall, since then, I'm now on my 5th try this summer, I can't get textures to load anywhere properly. Buildings half render, trees are like 64bit 2d paper, cars are boxes. It's every install, I'm on standalone.

No other map has this issue and everything else looks amazing. Aircraft load perfectly. Map plays smooth, mountains and ground terrain looks as it should. All objects are blocks and half load. No amount of time waiting resolves this. I purchased the entire map at launch and have everything checked as far as I know.

I must be doing something wrong. Any advice where to start? Again, it's only afghan that's like this. 

Thanks in advance. 

[MAXsenna]

@TFS

Post your DCS.log? 

Also, no point of reinstallation. A full repair takes care of that. And I'm a little confused. Did you reinstall DCS or just the map through the Module Manger?

Cheers! 

Edited Thursday at 03:36 AM by MAXsenna

[TFS]

@MAXsenna

I only reinstalled the map through the module manager via the launcher.

So fly a mission on afghan and copy the log?

[draconus]

On 9/24/2025 at 5:35 AM, TFS said:

Aircraft load perfectly. Map plays smooth, mountains and ground terrain looks as it should. All objects are blocks and half load. No amount of time waiting resolves this. I purchased the entire map at launch and have everything checked as far as I know.

This sounds like you fly in the low resolution area, not yet depicted in the game, ex. north parts. Try the modeled parts like East and South-West.

[Silver_Dragon]

On 9/24/2025 at 4:35 AM, TFS said:

I got Afghan day one, I loved it and was thrilled for what was to come. Had to uninstall & reinstall, since then, I'm now on my 5th try this summer, I can't get textures to load anywhere properly. Buildings half render, trees are like 64bit 2d paper, cars are boxes. It's every install, I'm on standalone.

No other map has this issue and everything else looks amazing. Aircraft load perfectly. Map plays smooth, mountains and ground terrain looks as it should. All objects are blocks and half load. No amount of time waiting resolves this. I purchased the entire map at launch and have everything checked as far as I know.

I must be doing something wrong. Any advice where to start? Again, it's only afghan that's like this. 

Thanks in advance. 

What zone are your flying?, remember, Afghanistan north zone has no release yet.

[TFS]

14 hours ago, draconus said:

This sounds like you fly in the low resolution area, not yet depicted in the game, ex. north parts. Try the modeled parts like East and South-West.

 

14 hours ago, Silver_Dragon said:

What zone are your flying?, remember, Afghanistan north zone has no release yet.

Yeah, lot's of people I have been flying with are using farps and airstrips in the areas that are finished, they all see things rendered and I am not seeing what they see. I will try again, just did a repair and will see if it helped at all. 

[rob10]

Have you tried deleting the FXO and Metashader 2 folders in your DCS Saved Games folder yet?

[draconus]

On 9/24/2025 at 5:35 AM, TFS said:

I purchased the entire map

Check again your license.

[TFS]

18 hours ago, draconus said:

Check again your license.

Welp.... Sir you win and I lose. I am wrong, I apologize to everyone, I apologize to all in discord who has heard me whining, and reinstalling, countless fxo and metashader clears, and game restarts, and waiting for loading, and messing with settings, and reverting gpu drivers.... ALL BECAUSE MY DUMBASS WAS CONVINCED, I bought the whole thing. Let the record show I only bought SW pre release and YOU SIR are correct for calling me out to check my license. It didn't cross my mind as I was so sure I bought it... thank you all for warm welcomed Ideas. 

I apologize and I will walk my shameful ass on out of here. Good day everyone. 

Thank you all!

[MAXsenna]

@TFS It can happen to all of us. Easy fix then!  

[EricJ]

Yeah really. I mean I knew that the map wasn't finished when I bought the whole thing though, and was kinda confused at first too. But I got the whole map so I'll have to wait for the rest to show up, and any improvements.

Edited 7 hours ago by EricJ