dieter_ua

Thank you for the detailed information, GaryGB, much appreciated! As I've already downloaded FlightSimManager v2.85 and the patch I don't think I'll need to additionally use the RunAsDate utility. However, I find your information very useful and will use RunAsDate for some other applications. SCM2004 seems to be more versatile than FS Scenery Manager 1.8. I'll keep them both. I only fly in FS9 but your tip as to how make SCM2004 compatible with FSX might be useful if I decide to fly FSX some day in the future. Thanks! It is good to know that there's no limit for scenery entries in FS9. At least this will help narrow search of the glitch.

I don't use FSNAV, for flight planning I use Aerosoft's FSP. Thanks for the tip about FS Scenery Manager, will try it for my scenery management.

Here's what I did yesterday. Couple days ago, following Mel's advise I downloaded RSC and renumbered my scenery.cfg. Yes, it was a real mess! After renumbering I only had time to check the config file, RSC did a good job and the entries looked neatly grouped. I was hoping that my problem had been solved, but could only check FS yesterday night. Unfortunately I found out that the problem was still there and didn't move an inch. As the next remedy I downloaded FSM 285 and the clock set patch. The program worked just fine. I scanned my scenery.cfg for errors (in the shape it adopted after RSC) and FSM found 200 something errors! These were two kinds of errors - scenery number-layer mismatch and gap between entries. So I pressed the 'find & fix errors' button and after some time of processing the program opened a popup warning saying something like 'one of your scenery can't be processed. contact scenery developer'. Unfortunately FSM didn't specify the scenery name. I opened scenery.cfg and edited mismatches and gaps manually. After repeated scan FSM found no errors, the scenery.cfg was now in perfect order. So I open my MSFS and see that I have 1099 entries which matches exactly the last number in scenery.cfg. I add up 3 more sceneries and restart FS. During loading, after FS updated the scenery, list I open scenery.cfg and see that the newly added entries are on their places. When FS is loaded I open settings/scenery and what I see - the 3 added sceneries are there, but the 3 top entries of the old config are gone, the number of entries is 1097! It looks like the 3 new entries replaced the 3 old ones on the top of the list. I choose 'delete scenery' and delete the 3 new sceneries and after FS processes it I open settings/scenery config. The 3 new sceneries gone and the old 3 are mysteriously back in the list. What's going on? Unfortunately here I had to stop my experiments, but kept thinking about the problem. It looks like the number of entries is limited to 1100, on the other hand mysterious reappearing of the "replaced" entries makes me think that there was no "replacement". Could it be that the 3 old entries were still there (and their presence in scenery.cfg is an evidence) but they weren't shown in the FS settings/scenery window? I must run a simple experiment - add new entries and open one of the "replaced" sceneries that was on top of the list. If the scenery is still there then my guess is good, if not then it's a proof that I can't add more than 1099 entries. BTW, do any FS setting files (like FS9.cfg) describe scenery entries limit? Thanks a lot for the words of support, Mel, but I'm at my wit's end. )) Yes, I do have more than 1000 sceneries, almost 1100. What is FSNAV? As I said in my post above renumbering of sceneries with RSC and FSM 285 didn't help a bit. So maybe I should look for the source of the problem somewhere else?

Hi again! Just tested my scenery config after renumbering it with RSC. Now I can't add new scenery at all. It's just not added, as simple as that... ((( The number of sceneries is 1099 and it never gets to 1100 whatever I do. I'll try FSM but I'm losing heart, honestly.

Thanks for the detailed reply, Mel! All is perfectly clear now. As I said I had already renumbered my cfg with RSC which you suggested to me earlier. Guess I better check the results of this renumbering first and then I can decide what to do next. Hopefully RSC has already solved the problem and no further steps will be needed. All I need now is just a few hours of free time. ))) And once again I much appreciate your help! And, yes, I do have access to flightsim.com. Thank you for your kind offer to send me the patch to my email! I'll inform you about the outcome of the renumbering as soon as I check it.

Thanks Echofox! The latest FSM I've managed to find on Avsim is FlightSim Manager 2.8.5 of 20th November 2005. Hope this is ok. If I understood you and Mel right this FlightSim Manager will help me with my little problem. To run it I must change my OS calendar to no later than Dec. 2005? After I run it I can change my calendar back to present date? Am I right? Do I have to do it every time I want to run FlightSim Manager? What is still vague to me is what should I do after I run the FlightSim Manager? Which of its parameters will help me overcome my scenery glitch? And what about my mother board battery?

But my computer calendar is up to date and never showed December 2005 in its life by a simple fact that the computer was bought just a couple of years ago. Whilst the problem appeared just recently (may be a month or so). There's one small fact though. Roughly at the time I noticed the scenery glitch my computer clock stopped to function, i.e. if I cut off computer's mains the Windows clock shows the cut-off time at start and I have to manually change the time settings. By all appearance the mother board battery is flat and needs replacement. Could this in any way be a cause of my sceney problem? I never (well almost never) use auto installers. I did it just in a few instances and that could hardly cause the trouble.

Hi guys! Thanks a lot for your help! Following Mel's tip I downloaded a utility called "Renumber Scenery Config" (rsc_v1.2.0.zip), found it very easy to use and renumbered my scenery.cfg ok. Unfortunately I didn't have time to check the effect it did on my scenery library, I've just peeped in quickly and seen that the scenery structure had been changed, but it still needs a thorough checkup after which I can tell whether the problem has gone. I didn't quite understand though why would I need to use the Flight Sim Manager to roll back my FS to 2005. Quite frankly, I'm a bit scared to do it.

Thanks for the tip Mel! I'll try to find a utility and renumber my scenery cfg with it.

Thanks for the tip. I had doubts as I got 1097 sceneries. Any ideas why this might happen?

Hi guys! I was told that FS9 is limited only to 1000 sceneries. Is it so? Does anybody have a clue how to bypass this limitation (I believe there should be a solution)? I've noticed recently that after I add a new scenery the last previously added one disappears, from which I figured out that there must be a kind of limitation on number of added sceneries. Please advise!