No, the slider still works like it always did for buildings, trees, etc. It's just the little stuff that's gone - like billboards, and MS-fried chicked signs.Doug

Turning off all AI is not an option for me. I will say I do have my AI set to 15% instead of the 100% most people fly at. I actually found that acceptable as I still have plenty of AI. A memory leak problem must be happening in New York or any major city because in rural areas there's no problem. I went into the 'autogen.xml' file and deleted all entries for major cities but that didn't solve the problem. Seattle for instance has a problem when I'm flying over the city but by contrast the problems go away once I'm out of city limits. Now York on the other hand never clears up and there's still a slight problem even with the extra autogen turned off. I can fly into NY with no problems but flying out of the city will give me problems even when I reach 32,000ft in cruise. So something is diffidently following me out of the new your area (memory leak)...The east coast of the USA is a killer on sim performance. Every other city poses a problem but clears up once you