make me feel stupid

[ninlves]

Hello,

I see this message often.

..............................."clean out caches" .......what does it mean?

Why would you do it ?

What does it do?

How do you do it?

I will probably feel stupid when I get explanations.

because I should have known.

only doing flightsim since the beginning.

So go ahead and make me feel stupid.

Larry

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[Raptor22]

If you're not sure what it means don't do it. This has always been my policy.

[dwarden1]

I am not an expert but clearing caches usually refers to your web browser and all the saved temporary files, cookies, history, etc. In Internet Explorer 9 go to Tools, Internet Options, and on the General tab work on the Browsing History area. On the Advanced tab under Security near the bottom of the list of items check the box for Empty Internet Browser Temporary Files when the Browser is Closed. I hope this helps.

[llivaudais]

In the scenery library window there is a checkbox that says "Empty scenery cache on exit". If yours ISN"T checked, perhaps you should check it and see if the message goes away. I've ALWAYS had mine checked for as long as the option has been there ( FS4? FS2000? FS2002? FS9?) and never seen the message you are seeing.

THERE IS a folder C:\Users\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\FSX\SceneryCache- and mine DOES have some addon scenery in it that I was just flying but it all went away when I closed down FSX. If you have stuff in that folder, how many Gb is it - are you running out of space in your OS partition because of the scenery that it is holding on to?

Coincidently, this addon scenery region is the ONLY one that was originally (and accidently) set up with "Cache this scenery" selected instead of "Use this scenery directly".

Hope this helps

Loyd

[scott967]

Back in the day, scenery was loaded off of Floppy after FS was started. The data was "cached". Eventually, this cache was located on the system hard drive. Today there is no need to cache scenery, nor empty the cache, unless for some reason you are loading scenery from a DVD/USB drive or maybe a NAS. I suppose you might want to play around with a scenery cache if you have an SSD, though my guess is to allow the OS to handle caching at the OS level rather than within FS (well, maybe Win XP users could take advantage of this). Maybe those who do photo tile servers have a different take on this.

scott s.
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[ninlves]

Im sorry,

I did not mean to mislead, "I" am not getting the measage to "clean out my cache" I have seen this message to people having problems in various threads at different forums as a recommendation to solve various pronlems for them.

Never paid much attention to seeing this in various forums but most seeing it recently at the FTX forum I became curious.

I will try to go back to the FTX forum to find the thread to see what kind of a problem a person was having that led to someone reccomending that he should "clear his cache"

Larry

[ReggieF5421]

FS2004 creates a temporary cache index file for every scenery folder - it is named scenery.dat. It references the .bgl files in the scenery folder and has some data about when they are used.

The problem is that FS2004 has a very bad process to clear old data from those temporary files. When people have problems like a scenery not loading properly, AI aircraft appearing thousands of miles off course, texture issues with some addons, AFCAD files acting funny - deleting the scenery.dat files will often resolve those issues.

One thing which does cause a problem is when people load a scenery file into a scenery folder and over write their scenery.dat with one which came from the developer's computer.

That might be what the folks are talking about.

Personally I delete all the scenery.dat files at least weekly and let FS rebuild them. Whenever I modify the files in my Addon Scenery folder, when I add new AI files to the Scenery\World\Scenery folder - I delete the scenery.dat files for those folders so that the new files will be properly recognized.

I never, ever, allow a scenery.dat file from any download into my FS folders.

[ReggieF5421]

I might also add, FS uses Internet Explorer for several functions - mainly display of windows like the kneepad. I've found at times that deleting the IE temporary files helps improve FS performance.

[Paxx]

Unless ...

The "cache" you are reading about in the various forums refers to "Shader Cache", which at times can become corrupted when changing the fsx.cfg file or when switching back and forth between FSX DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 Preview mode. Funny looking colors, wonky fonts, absent Anti-Aliasing, wacky disco lights are but a few symptoms of a FSX shader cache problem.

The fix for such disturbing visuals due to a shader cache problem can be found here.

[Blades]

Possibly also your java cache which holds temp files..easy to clear...go to control panel...select the java icon.. java control panel comes up, last box says temporary internet files, click on settings, another box comes up select clear, another box says delete files click on it, click okay, okay again, and your cache there has been clear.

Blades