Until about two weeks ago, I had not used my flight sim for about six months although, during that time, I had continued to purchase products.

When I got back my enthusiasm a couple of weeks ago, I installed and tried most of those purchases.

Most of them were airports and, therefore, I was checking that they had gone automatically into Scenery Library and I had to do the "Add Scenery" exercise with those which had not. They all found there way there.

Everything went okay for a couple of days and then FSX closed down with an Out of Memory message.

The next time I checked the Scenery Library via Settings, everything in the Scenery Area column was blank - there were no entries. Yet, the other two columns were complete, the Enabled column having most products ticked as I had intended and the the Priority column showing priorities from 1 to 1045.

In Free Flight, the Select Airport feature works without any problem.

However, the problem with the Scenery Library means that I can't identify airports to enable/disenable or to move or delete.

What might have caused this problem? How can I fix it?

Gary

Hi Gary,

I doubt if the loss of your scenery entries in the scenery Library was due to the Out of Memory issue - this simply means that FSX has exceeded the notorious 4GB VAS threshold probably due to the combination of aircraft, airports, scenery etc you were using for the Flight at the time you got the error message. I’ve certainly had plenty of OOMs over the years but have never lost my scenery library entries as a result.

In saying that, although I don’t know what caused your problem, you could try restoring your scenery.cfg file and see if that restores your scenery library entries. To do this you need to open the folder containing the active Scenery.cfg file for FSX and that is normally in C/Program Data/Microsoft/FSX. This folder not only contains your current scenery.cfg file but should also contain old scenery.cfg files which would have been created when you added new scenery. These are usually named something like backup_scenery_cfg or scenery_cfg_before_installing_XXXX. You can use the most recent of these files to restore your scenery by simply renaming it scenery.cfg (after first renaming the current active scenery.cfg file to something like scenery.BAK).

Might be worth giving that a try!

Bill

Bill

Thanks for your response.

Prior to posting, I did an Avsim search but could not find anything of relevance.

In fact, there was something there because after I posted I tried a general internet search and found others had experienced this problem :https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/392678-fsx-scenery-library-names-of-each-area-not-showing/

I now have to think through what to do.

Gary