Ground Grayed Out in SMPv3

[jlindbe]

Whenever flying through clouds I get this weird overlay where the scenery appears grayed out as shown below.  Everything looks gray and I can see the scenery grid outlines.  If I fly through clouds with SMP disabled everything appears as it should.  Anyone else experience this and know how to fix it?  Thanks in advance.

 

Edited February 9, 2016 by jlindbe

[Cameron]

Wow, that's funky...

What is the video card you have installed on this machine? Can you attach the log.txt file located in your X-Plane folder?

[jlindbe]

Hi Cameron - 

I have a Intel Iris Pro card.  Here is my log file, SMP settings and rendering options.

 

 

 

Log.txt

[Cameron]

I'll let Frank respond for the most part, but given that graphics card my initial thoughts are this is an issue of drivers or simply being close to the brink of VRAM exhaustion.

[sundog]

Well, I think Cameron's right about it being some sort of driver error. Intel doesn't exactly have a good reputation in that area I'm afraid, and I've never run across the specific card you have. If you can update your video drivers, it may help.

If that doesn't do it, try enabling HDR mode - that may trick the drivers into behaving properly.

What I think is going on is that when you are inside a solid or broken stratiform layer, SkyMaxx Pro does a post-processing effect over the scene in order to make it look fogged. Your image looks like portions of the screen aren't writing into the depth buffer or something, but I don't want to get too technical! Bottom line - if updating your drivers and HDR mode doesn't help, as a last resort you could set your stratus/overcast representation setting to sparse or dense particles to get around this.

 

[jlindbe]

Thanks Frank.  I've checked my drivers and I'm all good there.  Next time I get into that situation I'll try HDR. or changing the stratus/overcast settings.