Black terrain on Xplane9

Question

I am trying the X-plane 9.7 demo.  All the terrain is black, even at the demo airport.

I suspect it may be a video driver issue although the later versions of 9 should be compatible with ATI.  Linux mint PC with AMD/ATI Radeon HD7640G.

Log file doesn't show any obvious error.  Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Hey, Thanks for your question! That is very odd - what version of OpenGL are you running here?

Comments

OpenGL Vendor    : X.Org
OpenGL Render    : Gallium 0.4 on AMD ARUBA (DRM 2.46.0 / 4.8.0-53-generic, LLVM 4.0.0)
OpenGL Version   : 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7 (300)

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I would recommend that your try updating your drivers here! Let me know if this fixes this!

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Thanks very much for that.  I found that AMD do not provide proprietary drivers for my card nor AMD catalyst for Mint 19.  Apparently there was a change in the way that Ubuntu handles video which hit Mint at Mint18.

So I installed Mint 17 and the demo works great on that.  Buying it!

:-)

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Ah, excellent. Glad to hear that this is resolved and that you're up and running! Have fun!