Black contrails

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im seeing black contrails and im not sure whats causing them. this cant be normal right?

https://www.imagebam.com/view/ME1BNAAR

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The user with the “solution” seems to think it was resolved after disabling a specific Marketplace product, though they did not specify which.

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I remember seeing that and I wish I knew as well

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I can’t recall where but I believe I saw someone say it was associated with an Aviator edition plane. Do you have the Aviator edition, or any of the 2020 Local Legends/Famous Flyers enabled in 2024?

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I now have the aviator edition but it happens with all aircraft

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Yes, it’s not about it happening TO an Aviator edition aircraft, it’s (allegedly) about the Aviator edition aircraft being enabled causing contrails to look this way on ALL aircraft.

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Oh so I just have to disable them. I got the aviator because I wanted the ATR

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In theory, yes - but I don’t know which aircraft from that collection could be the problematic one. I would start by disabling all of them and then re-enable them one by one to see which one is breaking contrails. Or enable them in groups as process of elimination.

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Nope. I have the MSFS 2024 Aviator Edition and I don’t have any black contrails. All my aircraft are installed.

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Well then this is so weird

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I have seen some issues fixed by removing all addons, running the sim, check issue is gone and then adding all them back without experiencing the issue again. No specific culprit in some cases.

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So I recently removed Airshow Assistant and I have yet to see the return of this issue. Haven’t done conclusive enough testing to say 100% that was the cause, but so far so good.

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Sorry for bringing this old topic up, but with the latest Beta build (1.8.9.0) I today saw black contrails for the first time ever.

Not all contrails are black, just some.

I made no other changes to my sim or addons.

(Coincidentaly) I also experienced artifacts in VR with SSW, that I never had before since this last beta.

I deleted all shaders and caches but the issue persists.

I am not sure if both issues are connected, but as both appeared the same time with nothing else changed, I was wondering if something was changed with the rendering engine with the last beta.

So I came here and found that old thread about black contrails that puzzles me, as at least this issue seems to have popped up before already.