I love the SoCal MegaScenery but it takes about five minutes to load on my defragged P4 2.66 with 1GB RAM. 7200 RPM hard drive. Frame rate slider set to unlimited as recommended. Is this typical? It's gotten to the point that I often fly out of the area to avoid loading it.Thanks

Yes-that is typical. All that detail comes at a price.http://mywebpages.comcast.net/geofa/pages/Geofdog2.jpg

Well, you should disable extended terrain textures and texture blending, and set sight distance to the lowest level. As the Megascenery people recommend, set visibility to maybe 40, so you wont notice the low rendering distance so much. I have autogen at a low level for MS, maybe that helps.-Daniel

Thanks for the tips. I'll try some more tweaking. The slow load timea are a real pain in the aileron...but I just ordered the NY MegaScenery...

I don't have the Mega-Scenery, but this is exactly the same as the UK-VFR scenery. As has been said above, the detail comes at a price. In the case of the UK-VFR sets, well worth the 5-6 minutes load time and recommended maximum airspeed of around 150kts.Alastair

All I did was uncheck "extended terrain textures" and it drastically reduced the loading time, with no noticable difference in the graphics.

Greetings,I saw a reply here that stated to set the visibility to 40 miles. I looked at the settings menu and it appears that the minimum distance settings is 60 miles, is that true? Is there a way to set it any lower than that or am I looking at the wrong menu?Thanks,Hans Groenewold

HansSounds like you are referrring to the "cloud draw" distance slider.In my FS2004 you can set viz down to 1/4mile!I use the VisualFlight UK Scenery for VFR flights around the UK.Unticking EXTENDED TERRAIN TEXTURES makes a very big difference in loading times.Setting the fps to UNLIMITED helps to load the bitmaps much more quickly also.RegardsAdam Moore8 nm East EGLL