Hi all,Starting FS2004 (FS9) motivates FS9 to complete installation etc. every time! I get every start the messages that it completes the installation and recreates the scenery index etc. (translated from German into English the messages meaning).So, does anyone know how to end these repeative actions of FS9 to a clean start? Where is the problem why it does it this way???

Hi there,most likely it's a corrupt .bgl file, possibly the traffic file, but it could be any .bgl. It could also be a wrong entry in the scenery.cfg, but that would then give you an error message, like 'scenery area not found' etc.I'm not sure, if a duplicate Area/Layer entry in the scenery.cfg would cause FS to rebuild the index, but it's worth checking out, if the first two options failed.Cheers,Gosta.http://hifi.avsim.net/activesky/images/wxrebeta.jpg

Try running FS2004 once from an administrator account, not a "user". That should create the series of .DAT files in the scenery subdirectories which I assume are the "scenery index".After that, it is possible that when a "user" runs FS2004 for the first time, it may do the "scenery index" again for him, but it should only do it once.

The scenery index is contained in the 'INDEX_FILE' in the root FS folder, as well as the scenery.dat files for each individual scenery. It will create a new scenery index, once a scenery is installed or uninstalled, and it will also create scenery.dat files for those areas. However, I'm not sure, if it does create new .dat files to replace faulty ones - for example, a downloaded scenery may already include a .dat file, but it may refer to files which are not contained in the actual release version of the scenery. You could try deleting all of them, and see if that 'error' goes away.However, in the end it will not affect performance, so you might just decide to live with it. If I remember correctly, a well respected Avsim member had this happen with FS2002 ever since he first installed it, and he just thought it was normal :). I believe it was Steve Cartwright, but I'm not too sure...Cheers,Gosta.http://hifi.avsim.net/activesky/images/wxrebeta.jpg

EDIT: Duplicate post

Hi,I found that some scenery had faults. I deleted them out of the scenery.cfg and now FS2k4 starts without any problems. I wished that would go and work as good with FS2k2, but it doesnt!I still have this flicker and flashing of the 2D panel. I have edited my display.cfg so that now FS2k4 recognice and handles my graphiccard as it should. I get perfect framerates even with about all sliders maxed realy like befor FS2k2 and even better! Just some few aircrafts (PMDG) drives my system crazy and low as earth kernel my fps are going. But 90% of all is running even mucho better than with FS2k2. Now I need AFCAD 2004...!

>The scenery index is contained in the 'INDEX_FILE' in the>root FS folder, as well as the scenery.dat files for each>individual scenery. >>It will create a new scenery index, once a scenery is>installed or uninstalled, and it will also create scenery.dat>files for those areas. However, I'm not sure, if it does>create new .dat files to replace faulty ones -Well, I don't see any index_file in the root FS folder. I have deleted the .DAT files in the scenery directory many times, and they always get recreated at the first run. But I don't have any addon scenery.

Yes, it looks like the INDEX_FILE , which was in FS2002, has now been replaced with various indices contained in the .../Application Data/../FS9/Facilities folder. It may well be that the individual .dat files have now taken over the function of the INDEX_FILE. It still leaves the question, whether FS only builds them from the ground up, or actually replaces ones found to contain errors.Cheers,Gosta.http://hifi.avsim.net/activesky/images/wxrebeta.jpg