Specular mapping bug

[Dragon Tamer]

If I tab out of the game and come back in with bump mapping and environment map enabled there is a green tinge that is applied to the planes texture. It's noticeable while the textures are still loading up. It also causes my frame rate to become extremely unstable, freezing for about a half a second every second until I tower out. After that, everything is fixed. This can be duped but so far I have only noticed it in one plane since I don't usually fly others.

Graphics card and settings:

NVidia GeForce 8500 GT

-Bump maping with environment slider at one
-Self shadow, 2048
-Detailed terrain
-Bump mapped clouds (worth noting map doesn't have clouds)

The plane and skin:
P-47D-40 58FG/210FS by PxDiG


I will try to upload a screen shot of what I am seeing for clarity.

[Dragon Tamer]

Here is a screen shot of the effect. It is most noticeable on the gauges, however it can be seen on planes with bare metal skins.

It is also worth noting that disabling all the advanced settings will cause the effect to stop and the frame rate to stabilize.

[ebfd11]

unfortunatly that looks like a resource issue... aka the vid card isn't strong enough to handle the textures you have up...


A dxdiag emailed to skuzzy or post the top 1/3 here and I am sure people will let you know.

Lawndart

[Skuzzy]

You are asking your video card to do more than it is capable of doing in real time.  Not much we can do about that.  That card is not going to have enough dedicated video RAM to run with all the options enabled and not run out of physical video RAM.

That video card just turned six years old.  When it was released it was slightly less than a mid range video card.

Truthfully, you should have "Detailed Water" and maybe "Detailed Terrain" checked as the only options in the advanced "Graphic Detail" options.

[Dragon Tamer]

I thought that the graphics card could be the issue. Sadly, the graphics card is two years newer than the computer and rather than just get a new card, I'm currently saving up for a new rig.

I have noticed that some maps seem to be harder on the system than others. But it doesn't seem to be related to map size. There is one small map in particular (can't remember it's name) That will wreck my frame rate even with everything off.