Hi everyone,

I have a lot of external scenery and was finding with P3D 5.1 and 5.2, it was taking a long time to get to the loading screen with all of my additional addon.xml files - even when they were disabled. So I moved all of my scenery to the scenery.cfg file and moved things folders like 'Effects' to the core directory which seemed to work fine. Loading times were massively sped up so kept the structure

I read a post on LM website that they were looking at speeding this process and was wondering if anyone had noticed loading times increased in 5.3 HF 1? I don't want to move everything back to the addon method if its gunna be a 10 minute load each time vs 30 second load time.

Any help would be appreciated. I guess I could use Lorby's Addon organiser to move things back and forwards as I still have the addon.xml files in each scenery but didnt want to mess up a good thing I have at the moment!

Thanks!

My understanding is this is just how P3D validates your scenery.

scenery.cfg - checks if the location is valid and exists - end of story

addon.xml - P3D performs a complete CRC check which takes longer -  "C:\ProgramData\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v5\scenery_add-ons.xml" -  is the file it records the data in