Disable Scenery When Not in Use?

[TheNerd 12]

Hello!

 

I have quite a bit of addon scenery and I realize that this takes up memory and can lower framerate even when you're far from it. Is there some kind of program that I can use to disable the scenery before setting up a flight? I think I've found some programs that can do that, but I'm not so sure.

Any help is appreciated 

 

 

Thanks,

Phil

[SierraDelta 1,342]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fs-sceditor/

[787flyer 633]

Hello Phil,

 

As posted above, this tool allows you select/de-select scenery you are not planning to use . What I have done is separate the world and my regions/airports into different geographical areas. Of course you can do this down to country-level as well but I found regions e.g Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia, North America, Canada/Alaska etc. a good compromise.

 

One note: This tool works well when adding new scenery however Orbx scenery tends to mess around with the scenery.cfg file so I always keep a back-up copy of this file.

 

Regards,

[cmpbellsjc 2,960]

I guess I'm rather simplistic, but I just go into the the scenery library in the FSX UI one time and unselect all my sceneries except for the few that I am going to use for that flight, then hit save and go back to the main menu and setup from there. Since everything was unchecked except for the last few sceneries, the next time I start FSX I just uncheck those that I won't need and check the ones I will need for that flight and go.

 

The way I look at it, whether you use and external program or use the FSX UI, you are still going to have to be selecting or unselecting sceneries for that flight. For me it just seems as easy to do it from within FSX without having to open another program prior to opening FSX to do it.

 

Either way it ends up working out the same. I do use a program to rearrange scenery layers though which should not be done from within FSX.

[WebMaximus 372]

I think how much you benefit from disabling scenery comes down to what type of scenery you have installed.

 

I don't use any photo scenery and when I did some testing in the past I saw very little improvement by disabling scenery.

[TheNerd 12]

I was gonna use the program SierraDelta suggested, but the program wouldn't install properly. I'm thinking about doing what cmpbellsjc is doing, but what do you click in FSX? I assume it's "Delete Area."

[Midnight Music 252]

I like this program a lot. It allows you to set up different scenery areas to fly in and only load the scenery for those areas. It helps a lot in FSX because it reduces VAS by not loading tons of sceneries you are nowhere near. They have just updated it for P3D as well. Once you set it up it is very easy to use, just select the area, press the button and go.

 

http://aviation.pero-online.de/wordpress/?page_id=105

 

Lee

[cmpbellsjc 2,960]

I'm thinking about doing what cmpbellsjc is doing, but what do you click in FSX? I assume it's "Delete Area."

Don't delete it, just unclick the check mark in the box on the left.

[Christopher Low 5,353]

I don't bother with the Scenery Editor. I just tick and untick relevant areas in the Scenery Menu for each flight.

[TheNerd 12]

Gotcha. Works beautifully! Thanks guys!

[Midnight Music 252]

I've got over 300 sceneries, that's a lot of sceneries to untick!

 

 

Lee

[TheNerd 12]

I've got over 300 sceneries, that's a lot of sceneries to untick!

 

 

Lee

 

300 

I thought I had a lot!

[Midnight Music 252]

Well, you know, I have to support ORBX and a few others! That Simstarter program comes in handy.

 

 

Lee

[RichD 17]

I love Simstarter.  It sorted my sim out. :Applause:

[Jim Young 2,356]

Just be careful not to use the SceneryConfigEditor to enable/disable FTX/Orbx scenery. Do that through their utility only. You can run into a lot of problems. Of course, that applies too if you enable/disable scenery through the Scenery Library.

 

Best regards,