ACTIVE AU Holgermesh uninstall

[troye]

Hi there, does anyone know how to uninstall AU Holgermesh in FSX? It really messed up my Australian landscape - getting trees and houses in the sea and in Sydney harbor, as well as lakes on the sides of hills. I now want to go back to the fsx default but there is no obvious way to uninstall AU Holgermesh.

[Wolter van der Spoel]

Which other scenery addons do you have installed ?

[troye]

Hi Wolter, I am still trying out the orbx products and started out with FTX Global Iceland, which looked absolutely fantastic. I then installed Lilydale airport in Australia, but couldn't really see any difference compared to the default airport scenery, except that the dirt runway appeared slightly elevated above the terrain. I then thought it must be a problem with the terrrain mesh and installed the AU Holgermesh, which really messed things up as i got all the distortions described above. Since then i also tried to install FTX Pacific Northwest, but during the installation it gave me some error message (conflict with FTX Iceland perhaps?) and i abandoned. However, it seems to have affected global terrain as i now get lakes on the sides of hills and houses and trees in the sea everywhere, even in Latin America.

 

I am normally very careful with add-ons and apart from orbx products, i only have South African scenery and mesh software installed (by Aeroworx), but that has never interfered with anything and is very specific to South Africa only. However, i am now very scared of orbx as something which was supposed to affect only a small area of the world has had bad global effects.

 

I would prefer to install something, see the effect, then uninstall and try something different. If i like it i will roll it out in other areas and support the company by buying more of its products. However, if a product doesn't provide an uninstall option, it raises a bit of a red flag. I really hope you can assist with this as I would still like to try out FTX Pacific Northwest and Tasmania, before committing to anything further from orbx.

[Holger Sandmann]

Hi there,

 

to uninstall AU Holgermesh simply remove its entry in your scenery library menu, shut down FSX, then delete FTXAA_HOLGERMESH in \ORBX\FTX_AU and also scenerylib_AU_HOLGERMESH.cfg in \ORBX\Scripts.

 

Having said that simply unchecking the entry in your scenery library menu will 100% deactivate the terrain mesh files, allowing you to do a quick cross-check whether the issue has anything to do with Holgermesh AU, which I doubt.

 

Cheers, Holger

[troye]

Hi Holger, thanks for the excellent guidance - exactly what i was looking for. I think you are correct as i had an error (can't recall the message) installing Pacific Northwest demo after having Iceland demo installed and i abandoned that. I can't remember the exact sequence of installing AU Holgermesh vs Pacific Northwest scenery, but i was flying mostly at Lilydale airport around that time and I just assumed the problem had to be AU Holgermesh. I've since seen that i must reset FTX Central to default everytime I install new scenery, which I didn't do before.

 

Having said all of that, I uninstalled all FTX/ORBX scenery including the original Iceland and the problem went away. Then i started afresh and installed Pacific Northwest demo on its own and i was absolutely blown away - it is simply stunning and i think I cruised up and down that river near Bowerman Airport 50 times already - this is now my favourite new starting point for trying out new aircraft! I then installed your AU Holgermesh and was equally imressed. Even though it is obviosly not the full package as the scenery demos, there is a LOT more definition to the scenery and i can now see the tiniest hill and undulation. Flying around default Lilydale airport, i can now actually see the airstrip from far away, previously it was indistinguishable until i was on top of it! Very well done. The only problem is that my add-on airport (Sydney's Kingsford Smith by AUscene) now sits slightly higher than the surrounding area. I'm sure it is their fault as they probably use default FSX data, but i now have one bank of a river on the airport side slightly higher than the other etc - but this only becomes noticeable when flying low in helicopters for example.

 

As i promised in my earlier post, if I'm impressed with a demo I will support the company and following your good support i went ahead and bought FTX EU Ireland. I know i should've probably bought Australia region following your help but I'm of Irish descent so have a soft spot. I really want to try out Tasmania demo now, but the download stops every single time at around 40-50MB (need total 243MB) - so annoying.