FS25 Warning: Missing texture 'normal' in ...

[Snake Man]

I posted this on giants forum, but guess for the history books it has to be posted here too.

Got brand new Farming Simulator 25 (FS25) install done to my editing computer, this machine only has Nvidia GTX 1060 3gb video card and my purpose of this install is to simply test terrain editing projects, I have a dedicated Gaming computer for normal game-play.

No mods in use, just basic VERY LOW video preset set and then some additional video settings set to low or disabled if possible, wanting to squeeze out any performance I can get.

When I run FS25 there are few different missing texture 'normal' warnings in the game log, few are duplicated so I parsed just the unique ones for below:

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2024-11-17 23:16 Warning: Missing texture 'normal' in 'unload_pipeEffect_mat' (data/shaders/grainUnloadingShader.xml).
2024-11-17 23:16 Warning: Missing texture 'normal' in 'fillPlane_mat' (data/shaders/fillPlaneShader.xml).
2024-11-17 23:17 Warning: Missing texture 'normal' in 'unload_mat' (data/shaders/grainUnloadingShader.xml).

After seeing that, restarted game once more to re-verify, after that did the game launcher hold SHIFT-LMB click to run it, used verify files option in the menu and it gave thumbs up all good result, then I ran FS25 again and still the same warnings in the log.

Does anyone else see those in their FS25 game log?

Hopefully someone has some insight how to fix my install, I don't want to get into terrain and mod testing with base game having already several warnings in the log.

[Snake Man]

Now that I added some mods in gameSettings.xml designated modifications directory, these warnings are gone, heh odd.

[Mobius1]

Hello Mr Snake man, I do have a question

this machine only has Nvidia GTX 1060 3gb video card and my purpose of this install is to simply test terrain editing projects,

Why do you use a computer dedicated to editing? Does it work better than your primary? I just don’t see the point here.

[Snake Man]

I have two windows computers, cutely named PMC DevSurf and PMC Gaming. To me names are self explanatory but let me run through their use anyways.

PMC DevSurf stands for development and surfing, ie web surfing. This computer is definitely my primary as you call it, its running 24/7 every day, all day, it never shuts down except when power failure happens. This computer is used for daily activities, email, ftp, SSH, RSS, torrents, git, www web surfing, text editing (HTML, C/C++, PHP, etc), image editing, 3D modeling (not that I'm doing that much nowadays) and hmm what else do I forget now. And then most importantly its used to edit games, Falcon 4.0, ArmA 3, Farming Simulator 19, FS22 and now FS25. I do have ArmA 3, Cold Waters, Sea Power, FS19, FS22 and FS25 installed on this computer but as mentioned with the GPU specs I will not actually play them, games are just used for me to test addons and mods. This computers hardware is 16 core (32 threads) and 64gb RAM for those massive game editing image etc processes, that is mostly for ArmA 3, farmsim games are kiddie sizes when it comes to images. Hardware focus is powerful editing capability.

PMC Gaming stands for ... oh man, are you going to make me say it (heh), gaming. This computers hardware is from 2015, its i7 4790K CPU, only 16gb RAM so I would not dare to edit anything heavy with this one and GPU is nvidia RTX 3060 12gb as my previous nvidia GTX TITAN X has been broken since I bought it but the possible faulty VRAM issue only surfaced it in full form when FS22 came out which uses heavy direct-x 12 stuff. This computer is solely used for gaming, I have one SSD for windows 7 with Elite Dangerous, ArmA 3, Cold Waters, FS19 and hmm wonder what else was there. Second SSD is for windows 10 with basically only for FS22 and now FS25. Oh and just three weeks ago installed brand new Sea Power to it as well.

Oh wow wall of text alert right there.

Why do I need a dedicated computer just for editing, well I would actually turn it the other way around, I edit on my regular day-to-day computer and I need a dedicated "gaming rig" as kidz call them, just for playing my favorite games without all the editing software etc being on the way there. I've had dedicated gaming computers since the 1990s I believe. I just enjoy leaving my daily editing computer and switch over to gaming computer for some good gaming fun, dunno how else to describe it.

I mentioned that gtx 1060 3gb video card in this topic because to me it might have been the most obvious culprit for any FS25 issues as its so outdated to run a 2024 released game like FS25, no other reason to mention it.

Hope that explains why I run editing and gaming computers separately. Oh btw, I also have two dedicated Linux computers... but that is a whole another story