Broken tree texture
Specifically on Vikings Crete Map, in the main City? Iraklio if you fly over it at med/low altitude, frame rate drop from +- 60 down to about 5-6 with a lot of stuttering, this is quite densely populated and an old map so i had always put it down to this in all previous installs.
However on closer examination there are quite a lot of small trees/bushes around the town which seem to be missing Alpha textures? (am no expert on textures) they appear as square green trees at long and medium views but at close in view, revert to correctly displayed trees and the frame rate jumps back to normal. If you pause while low over the city you can see the FPS leap as you cycle though different views, red none qmb is easy to test this.
I have tried many different tree packs, and installed the map "standalone" in mapmods, in the hope of replacing this faulty Tree texture but nothing worked so far, and i am unable to identify what the name of it is.
I can only surmise that somwhere deep in the SFS files this faulty texture has been inherited, and present through various UP and DBW upgrades (or i have caused the prob myself ???) but i seem to have had this for a long time.
This is a very minor issue in the whole of DBW, but if someone with the right knowledge has the time to have a look at the Crete Map, it would be great
Cheers Dakpilot