When starting FSX, it is always loading the whole scenery library I have installed. When I monitor in tools like Process Monitor, I can see it going through ALL the files.Now, if I'm loading my default flight in Europe, why does it have to load ALL the photoscenery in America? That's completely useless!

Some info here:-http://forums1.avsim.net/topic/67367-activatingde-activating-scenery/bob

It's stupid, so I only keep areas where I fly active and deactivate areas I don't fly.

Unpractical really. I knew that as a possibility, only wondering if there is another way to prevent FSX from loading everything along the whole world...

FSX allows you to Save and Load settings to your liking. This would include scenery areas, AFAIK.

Yeah, there is Word Not Allowed: I'll use this as an example, as to how I approach a "How I Want FSX to Start" problem....Sometimes don't want EZCA to load, so I put together a quick bat file on my desktop, and run it as needed. A DOS window pops up, with a simple menu - "EZCA On or Off?" "On" will copy all the needed files that are necessary for EZCA to run - it will rename the TIR manifest files to manifest1, etc, so that EZCA has control over TIR. It alters the exe.xml, and changes the simconnect.manifest to simconnect1. 61 lines of simple MS-DOS code. "Off" just reverses - copies the original files back.In the same light - you can have two or more scenery.cfg files - one with just NA, one with only Western Europe and another one with only Australia, if you wish. All your DOS bat file does is grab the scenery.cfg you want - let's say "Australia.cfg" and rename to scenery.cfg, and it's done. Launch FSX.First you need to create "Australia.cfg", and that can be done from within the sim, or by using something like "SceneryConfigEditor" - http://dl.dropbox.co...aller-1.1.0.exe ), unticking all that you don't need - then saving it. Your scenery.cfg now contains only "Australia" scenery, plus a few base sceneries. The base scenery numbering system map is here:- http://dl.dropbox.co...ng%20Schema.xpsThis now gets copied into the same folder, renaming it to "Australia.cfg". Do the same for (in my case - the PNW) any other area that you fancy, ticking what you think you need, and unticking what you don't need.The last part is to write the script. Open Notepad and write a DOS script which will find and copy scenery.cfg to scenery.cfg_ori, then copy and rename your new file to scenery.cfg. Do this for each area you want, adding it into the menu in the new bat file, and it's done. To use it - you just dbl-clk the new "MyScenery.bat", (for e.g.) select the one you want, exit and then start FSX. You will only load the area that you have selected.If anybody wants to see the EZCA bat file, here it is: http://dl.dropbox.co...%20-%20EZCA.batIf you're even moderately pc-savvy, this is easily understood. If you like the idea, and not so savvy, ask for assistance here or via a pm.Bat files are a great and simple way to customize FSX's startup.

Good question. Scenery files should be loaded after a flight plan has been created. But if you dont use FS flight planning, How would the sim know what files to load, which I never do? Start @ EGLL and fly to KJFK. The sim would have to stop in the middle of the flight and load the scenery files eventually. Or its called FLIGHT :)

Paul, thank you very much for your generous suggestion. It basically comes down to turning off sceneries inside FSX. As I already mentioned, not something I would like, for more than one reasons.Barnstormer - when you are flying, things are getting loaded on the way. Same should be possible with airports and different sceneries. If you slew for a while on max, textures become blurry. Why? Because sim doesn't *load* it. The thing is, apparently FSX does a sweep over everything you have on loading of the flight, but it doesn't load it really, only when you approach the area, do the cpu cores start loading files in detail.I wish there were a way to prevent FSX from searching folders in the first place... why two instances, one when flight loading, second when flying...

Here ya go:-@ECHO OFFCLSSET PATHC=C:ProgramDataMicrosoftFSX:MENUECHO.ECHO.ECHO.ECHO 1 - PNW scenery onlyECHO 2 - Original sceneryECHO 3 - ExitECHO.ECHO .........................ECHO.SET /P N=Type 1 or 2, then press Enter :IF %N%==1 GOTO PNWIF %N%==2 GOTO ORIIF %N%==3 GOTO END@ECHO OFF:PNWC:CD "%PATHC%"copy scenery.cfg scenery.cfg_ori /Y 2>&1 1> NUL:copy PNW.cfg scenery.cfg /Y 2>&1 1> NUL:exit:ORIC:CD "%PATHC%"del scenery.cfgcopy scenery.cfg_ori scenery.cfg /Y 2>&1 1> NUL:exit:ENDexitCopy/paste the script into Notepad, then save it to the desktop as.. MyScenery.bat . This works fine: all that's needed is to create the other scenery.cfgs, and rename them. Start the sim and ensure all sceneries are checked in the Scenery Library, then exit the sim. This gives you the default "all sceneries checked". Now copy that scenery to scenery.cfg_ori. Restart the sim, go to Settings --> Scenery Library and uncheck all that are not needed for your particular area - like the PNW. Exit the sim, go to the folder again, and rename the scenery.cfg --> PNW.cfg.Now you are setup to run the script before you start FSX, selecting whichever scenery area you've created. You can keep on creating and adding them to the script as you need.

I haven't made a batch file since I got Windows 95 :). Seems like the only solution though.I like how Outerra only downloads the areas you fly in. No need to stuff the harddrive with scenery never used.

Indeed. I have no idea why MS would do that. There are hundreds (thousands?) of bgl's there. Just looked - 29, 263 files in 248 folders, for 10.6GB.