fta Norman Dean

[Fred Popplewell]

Norman

In a reply on another forum you describe your system HDD setup - raptors and caviars. You say you have 'FSX Scenery' on partition 1 of the 1000GB Caviar. Is this the FSX default scenery? If so, how did you install FSX on a smaller drive and place the scenery on the larger drive?

Thanks for your help.

fredpop

[Norman Dean]

Hi Fred,

No, it is all addon scenery that is on my drive "G" not the default. I do not use the addon scenery folder in the MS FSX folder at all.

Incidentally, I have made a measurable improvement both in loading times and also in the rendering of graphics by using several scenery.cfg files. I have one for the UK, one for Western Europe, Spain etc, When I go for a flight I move the appropriate cfg file to the Program Data\Microsoft\FSX folder before hand, but you can actually do it on the fly ( ) by simply changing the file and then doing a scenery refresh, which only takes about 10 to 15 seconds on my system.

Norman

[Fred Popplewell]

Hi Norman

Thanks for your reply and also your tip about multiple scenery addon files.

Fred

[Norman Dean]

By the way, Fred, you will note that I do not have one for Australia, I rely on the ORBX FTX Central to control the scenery files there. I keep Ant's Aussie Airports in my SE Asia cfg file.

Norman

[David Butler]

Norman

Which scenery.cfg does FSX use. I have one in the main FSX folder and another in appdata\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX but neither seems to agree with the scenery library, as follows

scenery.cfg 1-129
scenery library 1-192

Dave

[Norman Dean]

Neither Dave,

The scenery.cfg is in C:/Program Data\Microsoft\FSX, assuming you have the default. If you are going to make sevearl cfg files then make another folder not inside the FSX folder (I call mine FSX scenery with subfolders for each region) to store the files in because if you leave them in a folder within the FSX folder then they wiill be lost if you do a reapair.

Norman

[David Butler]

Norman

Thanks for that. I presume that if you create several cfg filesthen you do not need to include some of the "default" ones.

ie scenery.cfg for europe does not have to include Afri, Asia, NAMC etc from the world scenery entries or do you include all the default entries as a matter of course

Dave

[Norman Dean]

That's right Dave, but be careful that you don't leave out anything that may have global scenery.

Norman