October 6, 201312 yr The scenery settings in FSX has the option to tick or untick 'Empty cache on exit'. I've tried both and have noticed no difference in any performance aspect though admittedly I have not conducted any rigorous experiments. Does this option still serve any purpose? I can imagine that when FS was first launched and memory was a costly item it could have been useful. But with most systems now having several GBs of RAM and TBs of HDD and SSD space, is there any advantage to ticking or not ticking it? Michael Turner
October 6, 201312 yr Good question. AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 4.2 32 gig ram, Nvidia RTX3060 12 gig, Intel 760 SSD M2 NVMe 512 gig, M2NVMe 1Tbt (OS) M2NVMe 2Tbt (MSFS) Crucial MX500 SSD (Backup OS). VR Oculus Quest 2 Windows 11 25H2 YouTube:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC96wsF3D_h5GzNNJnuDH3WQ 2k+ Videos & Streams BATC and FSFO FB Group:- https://www.facebook.com/groups/1571953959750565 Flight Sim First Officer (FSFOv6) and SoFly Beta Tester Reality Is For People Who Can't Handle Simulation!
October 7, 201312 yr In scenery.cfg there is a possibility of specifying for each scenery area Local= or Remote= If you use Remote, it tells FSX to copy all the files from that scenery area into the cache, which would normally be an HDD or I suppose SSD. The idea was based on small HDD so you would have scenery on CD (actually probably floppy when first thought up). You could also use it if you had scenery on a NAS or other network location. If you use the "scenery library" in FSX to add scenery areas, I'm pretty sure FSX will automatically select "Remote" if the scenery is on "slow" media, which I assume is hard-coded into fsx somewhere. As far as clearing the cache, if you don't have any Remote scenery areas, then it isn't going to do anything. If you do use the cache, I suppose it would be a bit faster starting up if you are flying in the same scenery, since I assume fsx will not have to load the cache (just guessing) if you don't empty it. scott s. .
October 7, 201312 yr +1. It's just another legacy setting left over from when PCs were too slow (or had too little disk space) to run FSX properly.
October 7, 201312 yr +1. It's just another legacy setting left over from when PCs were too slow (or had too little disk space) to run FSX properly.more like... +1. It's just another legacy setting left over from when PCs were too slow (or had too little disk space) to run FS2000 properly. The best gift you can give your children is your time.
October 8, 201312 yr Heh heh, so true. As I recall, some early add on scenery resided permanently on a CD ROM (Hmm, what's that?) and using the cache setting was a way to speed up the subsequent loading of the scenery, by caching the files to a HDD.
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