I am flying a German campaign in October 1917 in Flanders and every flight I get this mix of snowy squares and no-snow squares on the landscape (see attached screen shot). Doesn't seem quite right. Looking for some input regarding this being normal or abnormal, and if abnormal what I might do to fix it up.

I have tried a simple 'overlay' re-install of WOFF PE over my old install and it made no change.

Cheers!
Richard (77Scout)

Intermittent and scattered snow showers?

Scout;

Give us some more details such as where you were flying (closest town, airfield, some point of reference). Maybe some of us can try to duplicate flight in that area to see what we get,
Also, what mods do you have active.

Best Regards

Thanks Robert: Jasta 37 stationed at Wynghene (the airfield NE of Roulers in Flanders). Currently October 20, 1917

Thanks for the additional data Scout, and what mods do you have active?

here is what I see: [img]https://www.dropbox.com/s/30o799j9p6rwq02/Wynghene%20Oct%201917%20light%20snow.JPG?dl=0[/img]

Wynghene, Oct 10 1917, light snow coverage

Hi Robert: Very good of you to take the time to investigate and post. Thanks!!

I have no mods active. Your screenshot shows no anomalies so that seems to indicate it is not a WOFF problem, rather something particular to my install?

Scout;

That is very weird mate! Don't see how you can have some tiles with snow and some without. Very strange.

Scout, You're not by any chance an avid chess or checker player are you?

What kind of graphics card do you have? Specifically, how much memory? I occasionally had this problem before I upgraded my video card.

I think this also may occur if your system resources are low.

I upgraded to an RTX-2070 with 8 GB of memory just a couple of weeks ago. System memory (on motherboard) is also 8GB.

Pawn to King four

You need a totally clean install to see if it's any old mods or issues causing it.
See section 17 of the FAQ and wipe out the old install, and in with the new install of UE then PE then latest PE patch.

Also if you have not, make sure you have a clean install of RTX 2070 latest NVidia drivers installed.

As IT support would say, have you tried restarting your computer?

True MajorMagee, Scout reboot try again if all OK nothing to see, if it's still broken, see my post above.

Hi Pol, I find it interesting that only fragments of the terrain were affected. I would have thought it was an all or nothing kind of thing.
Always new challenges to ponder. I'm in agreement that a fresh install is the best thing. Who knows what else may be affected.

Best Regards folks.

Yep something is broken, what I don't know is what. As no one else has reported a checker board pattern it is very likely a local broken install.

I remember having a similar problem, on occasion, of chequered shadow tiles if flying in rainy and/or overcast conditions while I was running WOFFue in WineSkin on the Mac Mini (and relying on the Intel Integrated HD 4000 vid. card that was maxing out at around 1 GB RAM - the integrated cards essentially "share" or borrow ram from the rest of the operating system). I can't remember what I did precisely to get rid of the problem - since it's been a few yrs. after running that kind of setup - but I think the solution was to dial back the settings in the WOFF menu - particularly things like forest density, also shadow quality, etc. Running most of those settings either at minimum, or no better than mid-range - most likely solved the problem since I don't think it ever showed up again. In short, it may be a video card bottleneck or limitation of some kind - more than a broken WOFF install. Hope some of these suggestions help you to sort the problem out.

Von S

Success! A wipe clean and fresh reinstall of WOFF has solved the problem. All seems to be working fine now. Thanks!!

Excellent Scout !

Hi!

Ive also having this issue, but first i just thought this was as the game was.

So i (again) reinstalled the game as per the FAQ section 17, and now when i try a quickflight my results are even worse tbh. I set time to both Autum and then winter, but the scenery is still the default summer one. Like now the scenery's are disabled alltogether?

My WOFFScenery folder is located under c:\odbsoftware\woff

I will elaborate further but i do admit it is a bitter taste as all my current careers are gone due to the wipe n reinstall.

I am running an Ryzen 7 2700 8 core, 16gb, Radeon RX 590 8mb. WOFF PE with latest patch. (computer-wise using all latest drivers ofcourse).

EDIT UPDATE:

Well, new pilot at Nov '16, after 1 day world updated and now i see all the trees again in autumn colors. So it seems to work. When does the winter kick in?

You do not need to lose all you pilots or settings when you reinstall ... use Robert Wiggan's pilot backup utility and all that can be kept safe and restored.

Dawnpatrol

Take the time to investigate all the great mos on the following site. There are some great tools there that you might be missing and find helpful

sandbagger's WOFF mods page

Best Regards

Thanks, ive been using a few there already! Maybe i could use the terrain mods to overcome my problem, as it is now 2nd Dec and i still have summer grounds with autumn trees. A quickflight though, i can successful set ground to full winter and that works. Now i only need it to work in a career.

That seems like something is still 'broken'. If you set a quick flight session to 'winter' and specify snow then you should see snow, no exceptions.

dawnpatrol;

I would like to suggest you disable all mods, JSGME or other types and try flying stock WOFF to see if your problem is still there. If it is, I would suggest a full re-install as per the instructions in the FAQ and then fly stock WOFF to see if the problem still exists.
Any time you install WOFF or apply an upgrade you must ensure that all mods are removed before beginning the installs. It's the best way to isolate if a problem is in the stock WOFF install or the result of some mods you have applied.

I hope these instructions help you to resolve your problem. Keep us posted on your progress

Best Regards

autumn trees do not appear in default WOFF and specifically any terrain MOD for UE is incompatible with PE.

Then i have a real problem because: Before my per FAQ section 17 clean uninstall, i had woff pe with terrain mod. After uninstall, and deleting of all subdirs, i did a clean install and have autumtrees. Then there *must* be an graphic cache somewhere not known to me, and that is not under username/roaming and not in any game dir.

I still wonder: What is the time stamp for full winter? In career page, it is still "autum" in 12th december 1916. Maybe the problem lies herein. The status autum should have switched to winter already, no?

Not sure how the game does it, but in real life the first day of winter is around December 21.

I would suggest to stop focusing on career (where weather is variable and unpredictable) and test instead in "quick combat" section where you can set the ground cover directly and easily. If you can't see correct snow cover etc there, then something remains broken.

If broken you will probably want to try the reinstall again, being very careful to follow the recommended procedure exactly. Reinstall methodically (install basic WOFF, test, install PE expansion, test, install skin pack, test, install mods, test).

Hope you get it figured out!!

Yes and make sure you deactivate any mods you have active, before starting any install process.

Hi sorry I’m coming to this a bit late, I had exactly the same about three /four weeks ago. I just reinstalled The dx9 from the the WOFF tool box and it all went completely back to normal... hope it works for you!

Good one, a good DirectX 9 install is vital to WOFF running well (detailed in the FAQ)