Open Rails cars are transparent

[Rick-MONON]

I was using Open Rails fine and now I get transparent cars and other graphic transparent lines, any idea what changed? I have checked my Detail Level in the options, it is on 10.

[longiron]

Rick,
Open Rails hasn't changed, so I would look elsewhere for the issue. Is it just this specific model? Did you change anything for this model? Video driver update?

EDIT: Rick can you give us some details on how those models are constructed? This may be an alpha sorting issue.

[mestevet]

It looks like the second unit is translucent, like there was a semi-transparent alpha on the texture for that locomotive. The BL unit on the front also looks like something is transparent in the truck sideframes. Perhaps it would help if the specific locomotives shown were named. Do they look correct when seen in MSTS?

Steve

[rfranzosa]

Rick,

Based on the problems we saw with static track in Chicago and Laffayette, you might also want to see if you get the problem with those locos on other routes....

Rick

[snootnose]

Rick did you change your environment or existing environment settings?

[Rick-MONON]

Nope
It is everything, not just the locos:

[twpol]

Very much looks like a graphics driver issue; did you update/rollback the driver recently? Is there a newer version you could try?

[GaryG]

Hi Rick

To isolate hardware vs. software issues, try the following sequence.

Shut down the computer then also turn off the power supply with its switch (leaving in the power cord leaves the computer grounded). Disconnect the video cables (both ends), remove and reseat the video card and reconnect the cables.

If a connection problem then performing this procedure would reseat all connections.

With the pictures showing the problem at two different levels, I would think it's not a video monitor problem.

You could run the DirectX video diags (dxdiag.exe), it is possible it's a DirectX problem. I would think that horizion parameters are part of the DirectX operation.

GaryG

[muskokaandtahoe]

Do you have a SLI or Crossfire setup? It looks like a problem from two cards rendering one frame and one of them is screwing up... what's that called... Split Frame Rendering... I think that's it. The other way is Alternate Frame Rendering and that would look very different.