New FSimmer here... first post.. pls be gentle. :)Out of curiosity, is there an absolute limit of some sort concerning the amount of scenery one can load in FS2004? By this I mean, though I have only been FSimming for a couple of weeks, I have downloaded and already completed an around the world flight (yeah, no other life and I'm retired). As I flew onwards, I searched for and downloaded a fair number of add-ons, including mesh upgrades, terrain overlays (are these called landclasses?), airport upgrades and general "sites"/objects (like boats, AI traffic, individual buildings/towers, etc.).However, today I found that I have trouble loading scenery even though I have rebooted, defragged my drive, and restarted FS2004 cleanly.Any comments?

I keep adding to my Flight Sim scenery folder and the only problem I have found is that it tends to really slow the load time down with the more you add. I have never run into a limit of any kind.

I concur, slower load times and more hard drive space consumed with no apparent limit. Gary

Hi drm and welcome. I'm sure that you have not reached a liomit. I suggest that something you have added in the last day or so is causing a problem for you. I hope that you have kept a log of some sort ,even if just in your head, of what you've added and when.Try uninstalling the most recent add-ons and see if that fixes your problem. If not report back here and someone will help you. R-

There is a definite limit to the number of entries in the scenery.cfg - about 200 if my memory is close.However, the number of sceneries you can combing in one folder is limited only by duplicate texture names and the space on your hard drive.As noted above - FS reads EVERY SINGLE FILE when it starts - the more files, of any type, the longer it takes to start.

>There is a definite limit to the number of entries in the>scenery.cfg - about 200 if my memory is close.It's definitely more than 200. I am up to 314 in my scenery cfg file and still going.

For some reason 330 pops into my head as the limit. But it's easy to combine the sceneries to reduce the total number of folders.As a tip to help with the loading times, open the scenery menu when you start FS and just UNcheck the areas you are not flying in currently. Then reboot the sim. You will save a lot of loading time. You haven't uninstalled them, just told the sim to ignore loading them.Anyone know iof FSX permits adjustment of the scenery.cfg from outside the running sim? This was always one of those great PITA that could and should have been solved long before now. I use FSNavigator database compiler to do the job, and you can do it with Flight Sim Manager too, but it shouldn't need to be fudged like that.Allcott

First, thanks for the welcome, the responses and the advice.Sorry about the delay in responding... seems that FS9 (as that was the only recent change to my system.. okay, add-ons, etc) didn't like my system and I have been rebuilding it since just after I posted.Yep, a rebuild from scratch, so, I'll just pay a bit more attention this time to how and where I install things, I guess.Funny thing was... in the process of trying to troubleshoot the status of my system, I decided to take a shot at the FSX demo.. sucker ran just fine at all but the most graphics and CPU intensive settings but FS9 was totally borked - wouldn't get past the initial "loading scenery 1%" screen.Sigh... not a waste of a day, but a lot of "wasted" time, if you know what I mean. :)Thanks again all.See you "up there" again soon I hope. (posted from alternate computer [laptop] borrowed from a relative)

The limit in FS2002 was 332, to my recollection (scenery layers). However, I am WAY beyond that in FS2004 ... 800-odd I think ... and MS seem to have overcome that shortcoming as all my sceneries show. I think :)But yes .. the more scenery, the longer the FS load on bootup. Even though FS only references what you are flying through when you are actually up there.MarkP.S. Want another useless statistic? You cannot have more than about 180 aircraft in any one AIRCRAFT.CFG file. I haven't bothered to work out the exact limit, but I have 230 DC-3s in one CFG and some aren't showing. One day, I'll break them out into a new folder or ... ah, heck, I'll just move on to FSX :)Mark "Dark Moment" BeaumontVP Fleet, DC-3 AirwaysTeam Member, MAAM-SIM[a href=http://www.swiremariners.com/cathayhk.html" target="_blank]http://www.paxship.com/avsimlogo.jpg[/a]

Hi Mark,Good to know about the aircraft.cfg limit - I'm up to around 140 AI DC-3's, and it would be nice for them all to show up. :)Take care,--Tom GibsonCal Classic Propliner Page: http://www.calclassic.comFreeflight Design Shop: http://www.freeflightdesign.comDrop by! ___x_x_(")_x_x___

In case any are curious, back up and flying again!!! :(At this point, seems like I will wind up with some unGodly amount of add-ons to load even for just tooling around... but I can live with that I guess. ;SI really appreciate the little details and suggestions all you more experienced guys have posted throughout this and other forums. They've been extremely educational - not only in terms of FSxxx specifics, but also in terms of how "modern" 3-D game graphics (can) work. Now to try to find a decent freeware water texture.