gsumner Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Firstly Im making a guess that the more scenery layers you have active the more load on your computer. With that I mean if your fly within a close proximity of these active scenery areas. So lets say Im flying IFR from Scotland to the South coast of England lets say Southampton.. Along the routes Ill probably fly over a lot of UK2000 airports I have installed. Because Im 15,000 ft and above I cant really take advantage of the complexity of the airport. So why have them active. Would it not be a good idea to have a quick way of disabling scenery thats really not needed for your flight therefore saving processor time as you overfly complex scenery. Perhaps a nice little GUI program that you input your Departure and Arrival airports, this checks your installed scenery and gives you the quick option of disabling layers before your even start FSX of your fave sim. This is just a thought, Im not a programmer and dont really know if this is feasible or infact would make any difference. Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi stu Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Hi graham Once you have worked out your route,and before you start your flight just go into the scenery lib and untick all airports you don't want to be active..works a treat Cheers stu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice_King Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Just like Race Sims it makes no difference the the running performance of FSX ONCE the relevant scenery database has been made as FSX ONLY loads what is needed, This is decreed by a number of factors not the least of which is the visibility radius which I believe most Simming pilots have way to high. If the LOD radius is set somewhat realistically then you FSX won't give a toss and only show a basic rendering , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 If I understood you correctly I use the freeware Scenery Config Editor 1.1.2 (SCE) before I load FSX and check what sceneries I'll be flying over. So, if I fly from point A to point B and in this route I find a scenery that I'll not land, like the heavy UK2000 Heathrow, I just turn it off. The rest of the world is also turned off, especially those photoreal ones (MegaSceneryEarth and others). The only entries I leave checked are those common libraries each developer uses like OrbXLibs and so forth. I find this software easier to deal with than using the Scenery Library inside FSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spirit_66 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 If my PC can't bear the load of the FS with all the settings and sceneries I have, then for my idea there's something wrong and I should better buy a more powerful rig or change to another less challenging "game". Spirit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 I tend to disagree about a rig handling or not what you have installed. There are limitations in the FSX world especially those regarding VAS memory. No matter what configuration you have you will always reach a limit in the end. Tell me if any rig can support ORBX EU, with PMDG, Rex HD, UK2000 Heathrow Extreme, FSX sliders to (almost) max, AI Traffic at 50% or more. If anyone says it's ok, that no VAS limit is reached and with FPS above 20 either doesn't have a clue what he is doing or has a super computer no one has heard of it yet. So for me FSX is all about balance. Take something here and gain something there. So you tweak your FSX.cfg, disable sceneries you will not use, tone things down when using FTX airports (using ORBX Control Panels), disable unnecessary services within Windows, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsumner Posted December 31, 2013 Author Share Posted December 31, 2013 If I understood you correctly I use the freeware Scenery Config Editor 1.1.2 (SCE) before I load FSX and check what sceneries I'll be flying over. So, if I fly from point A to point B and in this route I find a scenery that I'll not land, like the heavy UK2000 Heathrow, I just turn it off. The rest of the world is also turned off, especially those photoreal ones (MegaSceneryEarth and others). The only entries I leave checked are those common libraries each developer uses like OrbXLibs and so forth. I find this software easier to deal with than using the Scenery Library inside FSX. Thanks for the above comment. This is what I meant and shall be looking into this. Graham Sent from my Enjoy 71 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 If I understood you correctly I use the freeware Scenery Config Editor 1.1.2 (SCE) before I load FSX and check what sceneries I'll be flying over. So, if I fly from point A to point B and in this route I find a scenery that I'll not land, like the heavy UK2000 Heathrow, I just turn it off. The rest of the world is also turned off, especially those photoreal ones (MegaSceneryEarth and others). The only entries I leave checked are those common libraries each developer uses like OrbXLibs and so forth. I find this software easier to deal with than using the Scenery Library inside FSX. Thanks for the above comment. This is what I meant and shall be looking into this. Graham Sent from my Enjoy 71 using Tapatalk You can get it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fs-sceditor/ Be sure to FILE - SAVE AS when you make modifications. The SAVE creates another file. Download JAVA too. This software is a no-brainer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsumner Posted December 31, 2013 Author Share Posted December 31, 2013 Thanks for that. Happy New Year ;-) Sent from my Enjoy 71 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Good post and result Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spirit_66 Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 You can get it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fs-sceditor/ Be sure to FILE - SAVE AS when you make modifications. The SAVE creates another file. Download JAVA too. This software is a no-brainer! This tool is a must have but I guess you meant the opposite of "save" and "save as"? The "save" does NOT create a new file. Spirit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 When you SAVE it creates a file NewScenery.cfg. When you SAVE AS it overwrites Scenery.cfg and creates a backup file called scenery.cfg.sce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spirit_66 Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 When you SAVE it creates a file NewScenery.cfg. When you SAVE AS it overwrites Scenery.cfg and creates a backup file called scenery.cfg.sce. Funny but are we talking about the same tool? My scenery editor save the scenery.cfg if I click "save" and I can create a new scenery.cfg with any name if I click "save as". I guess all products in the whole MS world work this way. Spirit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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