All aircraft black...?

[ndicki]

Bit foxed here. When I run FE2, which has been performing nicely up until now, the aircraft show up as black. No textures, no decals, just black. The other textures - ground, clouds, etc are unchanged. Only DDS texture files work on objects; BMP, JPG and TGA including decals do not. 

I installed a number of IObit products this morning - system care, etc - but I don't see how they could have interfered with the sim.

Any thoughts? 

Edited 15 hours ago by ndicki

[MigBuster]

 

Run an unmodded version of FE to see if you get the same thing.

Running out of video memory?

GFX drivers?

Security software restricting access?

 

[daddyairplanes]

ive run iObit and SF2 for years and never experienced an issue. so doubtful its that

[ndicki]

Migbuster - I've just done that, and it worked correctly. Good thinking. 

Now how to fix it?

Daddyairplanes - I've been using IObit for years as well, sometimes pro, sometimes free/expired. Never any trouble before, which is why I don't think that's it either. 

[ndicki]

Weird. The stock aircraft appear normally, but any stock aircraft that I re-skin with a stock skin to appear as a stand-alone, no further changes made, is black. The stock aircraft continue to appear normally, so it's only stand-alone stock and third party aircraft that don't work. Very odd. 

[ndicki]

Found the problem. It was indeed linked to IObit Malware Fighter - the anti-ransomware engine was blocking the texture files for any non-stock or modified stock aircraft, you tell me why. Anyway, I whitelisted FE2 and now we're back to normal. Don't tell me though that I'm going to have to whitelist all the modified stuff on this computer...........

In-between times, I thought the Fokker D.VIII looked a bit sad, straight out of 'the box'. Anybody interested?