i bought most of what he's selling - great stuff!    Praying for your healing Fernando!

Loving the scenery so far.  Bought a Seagate 20TB 7200RPM external hard drive but when using it, the scenery does not load and P3D will not respond so I have to manually kill it.  Does anyone have any pointers or should I just bite the bullet and buy some external SSDs.

Thanks much

I had the FC Scenery files on an internal HDD for a test-flight, but there were constant micro-stutters, so I copied them to a NVMe, and all was good.

I've seen GUI hangs lately, but I'm still investigating that. Could be another add-on.

I am running his scenery on HDD's and I do not have any stuttering or any other problems.  I have modern WD Black's that have read/write speeds of up to 230mb/s or so.

@dufus01 you should try running Crystal Disk Mark: https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskmark/ (Note: make sure you download Crystal Disk Mark and not one of their other programs).

You can use it to test your HDD read and write speeds to make sure your getting normal speeds on your drive.  You should also consider checking Seagate's website, they probably have their own diagnostics tool you can download and use to test the drive's health.

I installed some of the scenery on a two tb external ssd and everything is working great.  Just bought another eight tb external ssd.  Man this hobby is expensive!!!

19 hours ago, dufus01 said:

Man this hobby is expensive!!!

It really is, that is why the best times to buy payware is waiting for a good sale.  The end of the year sales are already starting up (Black Friday), it's the best time of year to get good deals on payware.  It will continue through December, you'll start to see sales more and more all over the place for FS add-ons for P3D and all other sims too.

It's always best to wait for sales all throughout the year, because sometimes you can get mad discounts.  So make sure to check all your favorite payware sites regularly for sales.  And check the Bargain Shack forum section here on AVSIM where people will post any deals they see.

I allocated a "limited budget"  couple a weeks back for Black Friday this year .. have well n truely busted thru that 
(PS to stay on topic .. that included recent purchases of Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona and Iraq from FCScenery)

Edited November 25, 2025Nov 25 by deeknow

Does anyone know a trick to transfer the scenery folder to another hard drive?  I've been transferring  Manitoba over to my external SSD and its crawling at 1 KB per second.

Thanks!!

 

RE:"and its crawling at 1 KB per second."

If you're transferring to a USB drive, make sure you're plugging into a USB4 port (v2 is best) if you have one, or if you don't, USB-C at a minimum.  USB-A or B will crawl slower than a slug.

On 11/26/2025 at 2:55 PM, dufus01 said:

Does anyone know a trick to transfer the scenery folder to another hard drive?  I've been transferring  Manitoba over to my external SSD and its crawling at 1 KB per second.

Thanks!!

 

This problem I also have when I try to transfer FC Scenery packages from one drive to another.  The problem is due to the autogen files, for some reason agn files take forever to transfer and I think it is due to their small size and the fact that there's so many of them.  agn files are usually 1 KB in size, and some scenery packages even have millions of them.  For some reason it seems that only one file at a time gets transferred which is why it takes so long.  The rest of the scenery will transfer much more quickly but when it tries to transfer the agn files, be prepared to wait a very long time.

Edited December 7, 2025Dec 7 by Zylx

you should find it a lot quicker if you Zip up the texture folder, copy the Zip to the new drive, and un-zip it there