FSX-MS Stuck on Loading Terrain Data 6%

[Bernie5 11]

FSX was running perfectly on this Win7/64 system.Then one day it stopped on "loading terrain data" on 6% - and stayed there. Same thing kept happening every time that I tried to run it.In frustration I un-installed, removed all directories that I could find, cleaned the Registry, re-started the machine & re-installed.Selected the default flight & the same thing happened - stuck on 6%.Anybody got any idea what this might be, or how the h*** I can get round it?Thanks,Bernie

[Bubi42 1]

FSX was running perfectly on this Win7/64 system.Then one day it stopped on "loading terrain data" on 6% - and stayed there. Same thing kept happening every time that I tried to run it.In frustration I un-installed, removed all directories that I could find, cleaned the Registry, re-started the machine & re-installed.Selected the default flight & the same thing happened - stuck on 6%.Anybody got any idea what this might be, or how the h*** I can get round it?Thanks,Bernie

BernieI've had a similar thing where it seems to sometimes 'stick' at around the same point when loading the terrain data.....What I found is that although it appeared to 'stick', after a few minutes (up to 3 or 4), it then continued to load correctly.Maybe you're suffering the same 'lag'?Toni.

[cianpars 1,170]

What is happening is that the scenery begins to load and gets to a point (in your case at 6%) whre it encounters a problem and stops.Sometimes it is just loading slow because o the amountof stuff you have installed, other resources running etc, so just wait a few minutes until it gets going again.If it doesn't then I would go into the scenery libarary and unchcek all addon scenery and see if it still happens. If its OK, then its a problem with a piece of add on scenery and simply a case of trying to isolate the likely culprit (usually something added recently).IAN

[PIC007 82]

BernieI've had a similar thing where it seems to sometimes 'stick' at around the same point when loading the terrain data.....What I found is that although it appeared to 'stick', after a few minutes (up to 3 or 4), it then continued to load correctly.Maybe you're suffering the same 'lag'?Toni.

Same here, but after the first time it loads, its faster the next time, as long as I havent rebooted.

[Bernie5 11]

Thanks for the replies Gents.I re-installed FSX this afternoon, and noticed that unlike the previous occasions, it didn't give me the "Repair" option - it just went ahead & installed the thing.Since then, no problems - it's running just fine again. I'm slowly re-installing my add-ons, testing the installation after each one & keeping notes as to what I'm doing.Fingers crossed that this time nothing untoward develops! Bernie

[slait 169]

BernieI've had a similar thing where it seems to sometimes 'stick' at around the same point when loading the terrain data.....What I found is that although it appeared to 'stick', after a few minutes (up to 3 or 4), it then continued to load correctly.Maybe you're suffering the same 'lag'?Toni.

Works that way for me as well. Patience for me has been virtue.

[ega 98]

Yes, same here ...and aslo at 6%. Just have to wait a couple of minutes and the loading continues...

[theskyisthelimit 48]

Yes, same here ...and aslo at 6%. Just have to wait a couple of minutes and the loading continues...

I find on a fresh reboot it takes about 6minutes to load a certain saved flight i have.. I have yet to experiment with turning off addons.. but i suspects its just due to the mass amount of addons installed.After this, if i close fsx then reopen and load again, it only takes 37 seconds or so.

[gritz 0]

As a test go into your Scenery Library and uncheck all the special secenery you've added and see if it loads faster. Then you can recheck back the ones you use the most .... probably don't need all at once anyway. If you want to get by the 6% faster replace your main drive with an ssd ... like the 100 GB OCZ VERTEX 2. It will make a huge difference in how fast things load ... not fly but "load". If you purchase Paragon's "Migrate OS to SSD" program you can just clone your current hard drive and then keep the original as a backup.

[GHD 21]

You can use Perfmon in combination with Task Manager to check the disk and processor usage while running FSX.In my case, I have separate drives for XP, FSX, scenery and addon aircraft.Green - OSRed - FSXYellow - Addon aircraftBlue - SceneryDuring the initial load, it spends a lot of time reading addon aircraft:At 6 percent it is reading scenery:After 6 percent it is still reading scenery but using 3 cores for this:

[EagleSkinner 36]

OK, it's started with me now too. FSX load sticks on 6% "Loading terrain data..."Even after 30 minutes. My only help is to "kill" fsx in task manager. Another problem I am getting is that if I go to the scenery library and check scenery out to test it, I can't exit the "settings" window from FSX Accel. So I can't go back to the free flight window to load a flight.Any ideas on this?

[DRani 1]

Ive done alot of work with terrain textures and everytime i install a set of terrain textures that dont have mip-maps the 6% stall is exactly what happens. Ill bet some of your scenery terrain textures (FSX\scenery\world\texture) dont have mip-maps. If theres no mip-maps the terrain must be plastered all the way to the horizon with full resolution textures which takes a very long time, thats why it will eventually work but takes forever. Unfortunately the texture folder has over 8000 textures in it, so good luck finding them! :( Hope this helps in some way.David.EDIT: might also be a combination of a high res detail1.bmp and a mipbias entry together. Check those out also.

[EagleSkinner 36]

Thanks for that. I'll look into it.

[qnh 70]

Ok, I had this problem, was driving me nuts. I thought it was a scenery problem and in a way it was. Trying to load complex scenery was overloading my anti-virus, once I turned it off the problem went away.Hope this helps someone.

[raymar 969]

Ok, I had this problem, was driving me nuts. I thought it was a scenery problem and in a way it was. Trying to load complex scenery was overloading my anti-virus, once I turned it off the problem went away.Hope this helps someone.

About 6 -8 months ago mine hit the 6% lag and it drove me nuts. I had just loaded one of the free ORBX airports just west of Seattle and I blamed the 6% snag on them. They were quick to 'feel sorry for me' but the only recommendation was to get a bigger, faster, shinner PC and it must start with i7- That old machine never recovered.Ray