[jhb] Re: All in One VFR Scenery
- From: "Peter Dodds" <pdodds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 09:47 +0100 (BST)
After a couple of months running an all in one scenery system I have
reverted back to the original setup. This is because AIO for me made FS9
load very slowly (15 minutes or longer), and I saw no performance
improvement at all.
Peter
> From:* "Bones" <bones@xxxxxxx>
> *To:* <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Date:* Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:53:43 +0100
>
> I forget which order I combined the folders but you have to be
> careful.
> There is a huge overlap between the 12 regions and so the amount of
> duplicated bitmaps is huge. What I found interesting is that the
> same bitmap
> may be found in four regions and may have a different time stamp in
> each. I
> followed the AIO thread on the VFR site because there are a couple
> of traps
> to beware of - like avoiding the grey tile near Gloucester.
>
> Your 013b2wa1 etc files are water textures so I presume you
> replaced the
> originals with a different set - maybe OceanFX or something similar.
>
> I got rid of my VFR Original folders. Before doing so I quickly
> went through
> the VFGM web site to check that I had all the various updates for
> the VFGM
> scenery - the flooded valley fixes etc - and only then did I go for
> the AIO
> operation. It took ages on mine because the huge number of files to
> copy
> over flooded the cache. The first few thousands ran in very quickly
> but then
> it hit a wall and was only copying a few dozen per second. Having
> said that
> I still had programs running plus the Av software instead of trying
> the
> operation on a clean and lightly loaded PC.
>
> bones
>
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> Of Peter Dodds
> Sent: 20 April 2007 11:24
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> Subject: [jhb] All in One VFR Scenery
>
>
> I am finally, because I'm setting up a new PC, going to attempt
> putting
> all the UK scenery in one folder, which I gather is fairly
> straightforward. Any hints or tips would be gratefully received.
>
> When I open one of the Scenery folders - JFVFR2 - there are folders
> for
> Volumes 1, 2 and 3 but also some bmp files - 12 of them - all with
> the
> datestamp 08/07/03 and named 013b2wa1.bmp to 024b2wa1.bmp. These
> must
> be unused by FS, surely, as they aren't in the proper structure of
> things. They also appear in scenedb in folder called
> "World\Texture"
> along with JFVFR3 and 4. However, these have an earlier datestamp
> (01/08/02) What are they?
>
> There is a folder in each texture sub-folder called vfroriginal,
> duplicating all the texture files. I assume this was created by
> installing VFR Mesh and the original files were put there because
> VFR
> Mesh changed them all. Given that I'm going to back the new
> structure up
> onto a DVD, I think I can safely delete these originals to save DVD
> space can't I? At the end of the day I still have the original CDs.
>
> Peter
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