Can anyone confirm how much cache you can store for offline?

[atlflyer 138]

2 minutes ago, hangar said:

So then are you saying that you have no control over that cached data, and that it will roll over?

To me that would say that if there's any scenery area that you want to save permanently to your drive then you MUST use the manual saving feature, is this correct?

from what it sounds, yes...the cache will rollover once it hits its limit...but you can also do a manual save at the same time so if you go offline for any reason, you can fly over the manually saved area with the nice scenery. 

[FPStewy 538]

3 minutes ago, hangar said:

To me that would say that if there's any scenery area that you want to save permanently to your drive then you MUST use the manual saving feature, is this correct?

but that would not be a good idea since even the scenery data will be continuously being updated.

[JughedJones 202]

Sorry if this has already been answered.

 

But does anyone know if I can save the cache to a separate drive than the install?

 

And if so, does anyone know if using an HDD for that data would result in poor performance?   

 

For example, in Xplane, I had all my ortho files on my 2TB HDD while the install was on my SSD.    No performance issues there.   This will likely be the same, yeah? 

[hangar 661]

2 minutes ago, FPStewy said:

but that would not be a good idea since even the scenery data will be continuously being updated.

While it wont get worthy updates nearly as often as you'd like...this is still a very good and valid question to add to the list, IMO.

How will we see/notice/be made aware of scenery updates if we are flying over cached/saved scenery?

[cwburnett 1,809]

2 minutes ago, JughedJones said:

Sorry if this has already been answered.

 

But does anyone know if I can save the cache to a separate drive than the install?

 

And if so, does anyone know if using an HDD for that data would result in poor performance?   

 

For example, in Xplane, I had all my ortho files on my 2TB HDD while the install was on my SSD.    No performance issues there.   This will likely be the same, yeah? 

Yes it can be saved in any folder you like. See the screenshot on page 1.

HDDs come in different speeds and 'poor performance' is subjective...but my subjective answer is that a 7200 rpm spinning HDD should provide satisfactory performance.

[B777ER 2,485]

2 minutes ago, hangar said:

While it wont get worthy updates nearly as often as you'd like...this is still a very good and valid question to add to the list, IMO.

How will we see/notice/be made aware of scenery updates if we are flying over cached/saved scenery?

For me personally, I live in a new subdivision that doesn't even show in Bing (even though first house was built in early 2019 and Google Maps has it). So my point of reference will be flying over the area waiting for my house to pop up.

[hangar 661]

10 minutes ago, B777ER said:

For me personally, I live in a new subdivision that doesn't even show in Bing (even though first house was built in early 2019 and Google Maps has it). So my point of reference will be flying over the area waiting for my house to pop up.

But that's what I mean...will any updated aspects of a scenery area be drawn over the top of our cached scenery as we fly over it?

[Emerson67 248]

2 hours ago, espent said:

Default was 8GB. I changed it to 100GB. Just out of interest to see how quickly that will fill up.

The cache file is fixed in size. Pre-allocated from the size you set.

[shivers9 1,174]

1 hour ago, Chock said:

The sim bombed when I set it to 88, said it was processing it, then a CTD.

Ahhhh Memories....I think that is the first reported CTD!!

[atlflyer 138]

so just to confirm...you can cache in any amount you want and it will overwrite and also set a manual cache to save?? If so , does the manual cache pull from the stremed cache? 

[kapitan 90]

Well i have a 2 Tera SSD so I set the cache at 200 gb and its still processing and a message “this may take several minutes of dont switch your computer off”, but it has been like that for an hour...should i wait?

Edited August 18, 2020 by kapitan

[c912039 111]

4 minutes ago, kapitan said:

Well i have a 2 Tera SSD so I set the cache at 200 gb and its still processing and a message “this may take several minutes of dont switch your computer off”, but it has been like that for an hour...should i wait?

Yes,

 

It looks like it creates a file the same size as the cache size you have specified.

It then writes within that file.

So if you set the size to 200GB, it will create a 200GB file when you first set it up, and it will then write within that file, and manage the content of that file.
It wont grow or shrink in size automatically.
I created a 500GB cache on a 1 TB SSD, and it took quite some time to complete.

 

[TopGun33 124]

I'd be curious regarding the performance of the cache between SSD and HDD. I don't have much space on my SSD but I have a HDD with currently around 5 Tb of space but that has a relatively low read speed (only around 150 Mb/s tops, average 100).

[kapitan 90]

it took more than an hour but now ok, i have 200gb cache

[1st fltsimguy 466]

Interesting discussion while I don't have the sim yet....Is there a manual?  Everyone is talking like they are just pressing buttons and moving sliders, surely there is a manual that "might" explain some of this.