I've been using X-plane for almost 2 years now and I have collected a lot of freeware, payware, converted some of my FSX scenery and dabbled in G2XP.  I've noticed my X-plane install is now a whopping 510GB. I needx to clean out some stuff I don't use, but Its running well and I am afraid to mess with it.  Is there a limit to how much scenery and planes you can have? or is it just limited to your hard drive size. 

 

Everything is running well and my FPS are very good. I am just wondering what everyone's X-Plane directory size is. Not that size matters (lol). I'm just worried I'm about to hit a wall at some point for number of planes or scenery addons, if there is such a thing.

 

Rob

I am just wondering what everyone's X-Plane directory size is

 

No way near to what you have Rob, that's for sure!

 

I doubt there is a limit to the size of Xplane's directory or to the number of addon's you can have, I think you're limited only by the size of your disk.

 

One question Rob, have you loading time worsen by the size of Xplanes directory? I've always wondered about that.

If I load an airport or scenery that has hires satellite scenery, it can take up 5 min or more to load. In most cases just a min or so. All in all I'd say it does take a few mins longer to load now than vanilla xp with nothing added but I can live with that. I start up xplane than go raid the fridge and when I get back it ready to go.

I press Ctrl-Alt-Del, load the task manager, and surf the web until it's done loading. I'm not sure why it needs to lock the system until it's done.

I press Ctrl-Alt-Del, load the task manager, and surf the web until it's done loading. I'm not sure why it needs to lock the system until it's done.

It doesn't if you're in windowed mode. I actually size my XPX window 6-10 pixels short of the full monitor height so it doesn't actually think it's full screen, and I can alt-tab or use the task bar like normal while XPX starts up.

Ah, I might look into that. I am in Windows Mode, it's just during startup. Ctrl-Alt-Del works just as well, and I'm in full screen windowed mode, so no need to mess with it after startup.

Hell, I would give up simming if I had to take a break and browse the web while things loaded!

 

    I did put xpx back on a SSD recently and that has helped things a lot.  I hate the startup times but you have to live with it I guess.

I don't think size matters, up to the limits of the OS itself regarding nodes...

 

But since, contrarily to FSX, X-Plane only loads scenery tiles around it, it it by definition protected against the kind of OOM that plagues FSX users...

I've got about 500GB worth of scenery. Depending on what I load, i.e. Area with high res mesh and photos, it can take upto 3-4 minutes to open. Choosing a default area with no addons loads in about 1 minute.

 

I just choose an area, a plane and go and make a cup of tea. It's ready when I come back :-)

Yes, size does matter....Mary told me so.!