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As for me, I'm barely breeched yet. My first flight sim was Flight Unlimited 3 in 2008 so I was late to Flightsim.com too. I've only ever known the current appearance. I've had FS9, P3dv4 and X-Plane 10 since then but have only retained FU3 and FS9.

Umm... early version Win 10 dark theme for photographers in the evening? The standard bright white background is really bad for colour & contrast perception when photo editing. Unless I'm missing something. (Other than Windows XP, which allowed persistent customisation of individual folder windows). Why's it so big?

Thank you both. I hope it made sense -- I had to stop editing as I just kept adding bits. I could have got the important info across in about 1/5th of the words... It is worth noting (here we go again) that the loop only happens with LC.

Not quite. If you have a landclass BGL in a scenery layer, FS9 will look for the relevant terrain texture files in the local ../Texture/ folder. If it doesn't find them all then it will look in ../Scenery/World/Texture/ where all the default terrain texture files are kept. It will then take what it needs from there. FS9 won't be working from disk. In essence it puts a working copy of the relevant terrain textures into RAM to avoid the necessity of re-reading your HDD or SSD. There must be a bug in FS9, an oversight in the coding. It means if FS9 has to redirect its search from the local ../Texture/ folder to the stock folder in order to find any bits that are missing, it will continue to create multiple working copies of those default files in your RAM, until there's no space left. OOM crash. It's a specific situation: it only happens if there's a local ../Texture/ folder for FS9 to examine first, and if it has also to check the default folder. If there is no local ../Texture/ folder then FS9 goes straight to the default and the shitty loop won't happen. If there is a local ../Texture/ folder and if everything it needs is in there, the shitty loop won't happen. If it has to check two folders for textures... it will happen and your RAM will fill up. That means you either have to be absolutely sure that all the required terrain textures are in the local folder so that FS9 doesn't have to look elsewhere, or that there's no local ../Texture/ folder to prompt the loop the loop the loop the loop the loop situation. It's simplest to put your landclass BGLs in their own layer which has no ../Texture/ folder, as in my oversized picture and as Tom suggested. D I have to stop editing now. I need a break...

Tom beat me to it, offering the same solution in fewer words... I've been aware for many years of landclass causing memory problems. Recent (last few years) advice for FS9 has been to keep landclass packages in their own dedicated scenery layers and to have no associated local Texture folders. Your question prompted me to look a little harder for an explanation. This 2006 post by Holger in another forum gave the info I wanted and expands on the 'No Texture folder' generalisation: 'Land class files call land use texture bitmaps, which by default reside in Scenery/World/texture. If a landclass file is in an add-on scenery folder *without* a parallel texture folder FS will look for and find those textures in Scenery/World/texture without problems. However, if there is a parellel texture folder, empty or not, then FS will search in that texture folder first. If it finds *all* the bitmaps it needs (classes, variants, and seasons) then things are fine. If even one bmp set is missing then FS will still find the textures in Scenery/World/texture but at a price: for some reason, FS keeps loading the bitmaps missing from the local texture folder over and over again, until your computer runs out of available memory and shuts down.In other words, the memory "leak" is actually a memory overflow.' I guess it's difficult to determine whether a LC package calls only its own custom textures or if it also uses some from the default folder. So if a LC package comes with any custom textures, it may be best to put those all into Scenery/World/Texture and to create a LC scenery layer with no Texture folder. That should avoid the multiple-load overflow caused by FS9 searching two locations for textures. (How do I prevent the forum from upscaling small images?)

I've just had a look at your terrain.cfg and I think I'll adopt your approach. It's much more precise than the fs9.cfg bludgeon. It did see strange to me that Tom Gibson could be unaware of the fs9.cfg setting... ;)

Hi. You can also retain the roads but disable the poles globally by altering a value in fs9.cfg In the [graphics] section, set TERRAIN_USE_VECTOR_OBJECTS=0 D

It's either that or break down and cry. Still, it has given me a chance to spend a whole second life in Skyrim... (another reason for my reduced simming).

I wonder if everyone maxxed out on games while in lockdown, and now that life is opening up, we're all re-emerging in the real world.

Hi. I believe there's no direct solution specifically for the CS version, but read on. C-130 support ended... then they changed their server. With no more support the installer wasn't updated for connection to the new server. The only solution I've found is... the CS addon was marketed by Just Flight for a while and released on DVD. It doesn't need authentication or registering. There are several for sale on ebay. The only downsides are 1. the IAS hold doesn't work and 2. there's no J variant. Otherwise, it's exactly the same addon. (The missing gear & gauges & props is part of CS's copy-protection: something somewhere must be written to the registry. It's why enquiries on their forum re. the missing parts were frequently met with blunt replies) D ------- Incidentally, here's a very recent thread. You might have some luck at SimMarket, but their Requirements list notes that XP is required and Vista is not compatible. Infer what you will about newer operating systems...

I thought you might like a bit of a laugh. I started this round-the-world flight in November 2009. I got side-tracked. So far I've clocked up 216 landings in half a dozen different aircraft. I guess I'll be living the afterlife long before it's finished. I'd been stuck in South America for nine years where it's done little but rain like a cow pissing on a flat rock (thank-you Mr Gann). Finally made it to sunny Mexico yesterday. I didn't hold a coming out party because I'll be back before long, inching my way down the Amazon when I'd rather be yarding my way up to Florida. I wonder if I'll finish before PCs cease to be a thing. Or before I cease to be a thing...

I'm quite enjoying this potential war but there's no need for the xenophobia. It seems to me there's a language barrier here as this, to someone whose first language is English, does quite clearly say they all fly with the same config & air file... The OP also stated that he doesn't understand most of your explanation. If you show a little more tolerance then perhaps everyone can benefit from your knowledge.

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But Realtime Protection (intervention scanning of all files being accessed) turns itself back on after a few hours. The OP asked how to turn Defender off permanently, implying that the automatic re-enable feature is the problem. I feel hack is a rather prejudicial word but in any case there's no need to edit the registry directly. I've suggested two alternatives, both of which are perfectly safe & legitimate. As in fact is editing the registry if you know what to do and why to do it. I've found that adding my FS9 folder and all the addon folders to the Exclude list makes no difference at all. Realtime Scanning seems to ignore the list, which I guess is only applied to manually requested scans. I don't think it's possible to uninstall Defender. Fine on a standalone machine. All the foregoing notwithstanding, my preferred solution is temporarily to turn off RTS & tamper protection as a part of my preflight routine. A few mouse clicks hardly constitute an onerous task.

If you've had poor service from ebay sellers in the past, I can understand your reluctance to use them. The five SimMarket packages I listed above are all downloads and might be a better option. D

It takes a couple of registry changes. You can do it through the Group Policy Editor but far simpler is to download & install Winaero Tweaker. The version I installed has a dedicated and reversible 'Turn Defender off' button. I did it through GP Editor for a couple of years just because I was so offended by the inbuilt re-enable behaviour. Ultimately though, I found that having Defender permanently off was a bit of a nuisance because I do occasionally connect with the rest of the world. Security Center or Intelligence or whatever other fatuous name Defender now takes does a good job but its real-time protection absolutely hammers framerates & launch times in everything. Now I make do with checking after booting the PC that it's in the state I want. It only takes 3 mouse clicks. (GP Editor also allows other useful modifications of behaviour -- such as proper sorting of filenames in folders -- all of which make Win 10 a more amenable OS. All I want now is permanently customisable folder shapes, sizes and background colours.) D

Hi. Something similar perhaps: stutters the first time I pan around when over or on photoscenery, in the VC or in spot view. It happens especially where there's photoscenery with associated 3d objects (hand-placed autogen trees et c.). It only seems to happen on the first 360° pan so I suppose it has to do with loading textures, or calculating the positions of objects, or something like that. Beyond my ken anyway. If you taxi round 720° or more, do the stutters reoccur at the same point in each circle? D

Hi. It's not complicated: my previous post was ambiguous. There's no problem with installing the plane using JF's disc: buy the disc, put it in your DVD drive, double click. No registration required. Possibly. I see in the product details that "This product requires activation, see notes" and the notes say "The computer you install this product on MUST be connected to the Internet: no refunds given." I don't have any experience of SimMarket so don't know if the installer will retrieve a key from SimMarket or if it will try Captain Sim's server. If it's the former, it should be ok. If it's the latter, the installation won't work. A quick search of SimMarket did turn up the base pack and four expansion packs. If you do buy, let us know if the installation goes ok. I'd really like to have the J variant (and a working IAS hold...) CAPTAIN SIM - LEGENDARY C-130 PRO CAPTAIN SIM - KC-130 EXPANSION MODEL CAPTAIN SIM - AC-130E SPECTRE EXPANSION MODEL CAPTAIN SIM - LEGENDARY C-130 EXTRA PACK CAPTAIN SIM - C-130J EXPANSION MODEL D

Hi. tldr: buy the Just Flight disc from ebay: same addon, works fine. This plane and the impossibility of installing it into FS9 on Win 10 was the only reason I invested in P3d. I don't think there's any compatibility issue with the aircraft itself but the CS server doesn't answer the installer & despite weeks of trying different avenues, workarounds & online suggestions, I couldn't get the installer to complete. Or even really to start. I think the server changed some years ago. I then remembered that Just Flight once marketed the same addon on CD or DVD, and that I still had it. Sadly, the JF disc doesn't include the J variant, which was my favourite. That seems to have been a Cap'n Sim bonus pack, which also doesn't install.. The only other niggle is that in my murky memory the CS had a functional IAS hold (by pitch control I think) and in the JF it's non functional. I may only be imagining it. Copying the aircraft from the Win XP backup didn't work -- I came up against the invisible aircraft parts registry-copy-protection thing. I only wanted the RAF grey paint so didn't try copying repaints from the backup but as the two are essentially the same addon, I should think they'd work ok with the JF offering. If you want the non-J variants, try searching ebay for 'just flight c-130'. Looking at ebay uk, there are several for sale there right now. And, if you find a way of installing the J variant, please let me know. I'll be forever in your debt. Incidentally, I've recently deleted my entire £600+ P3d installation, install files and addons because this works fine in FS9 on Windows 10 Pro. The money was spent on trying to make it into something I wanted to play with but the stock P3d C-130 is largely non-functional: even the engine-start buttons didn't work. Instant immersion killer. I'm much happier for doing it and also regained a squillion gig of disc space. These screenies are all from FS9 on Win 10 Pro.

If there aren't many airfields in the bgl (you wrote original so I assumed stock), then it might be easier to look at the problem from another angle. You can disable the relevant flatten bgl, having recompiled each airfield in the stock bgl with a manual flatten added to each. I have just enough patience to deal with stock bgls up to about a dozen fields and have a few dedicated (continental) scenery layers for such corrections. D

Hi. What do you want to convert it to? Also, the aircraft download and texture download names might be useful... D

To paraphrase Richard Bach, "Maybe my perfect plane is many planes". I guess I still haven't found the right one...

I'll just throw my penn'orth in... Mesh dictates the shape of the ground's topography. It has only a very slight effect on performance. An addon mesh package would probably increase the level of detail as Larry stated. If you've already tried an addon in P3d v5 and haven't noticed a difference then the stock mesh is perfectly adequate. Photoscenery is just that: aerial or satellite photographs draped over the topography. The detailed individual textures can have a much bigger impact on framerate. Also, each image takes much longer to load to a high level of detail than does any mesh. As il88pp indicated, a horizontal mismatch between mesh & photoscenery can look strange if you prefer low & slow flight. The problem also affects coastlines and lake-shores. if you're thinking of Orbx True Earth photoscenery (my assumption as you mentioned P3d) then you shouldn't have a problem: the packages already include matching mesh and reworked coastlines. Similarly, Just Flight's UK Next Gen photoscenery includes its own mesh, as does France VFR. If you're looking at a freeware download photoscenery, you may end up hunting around for a suitable mesh but in any case, as above, if you fly high it won't matter. D (I know you understand what the two scenery elements are, but for anyone else doing a search...)

That's a nice, clear website and I particularly like the examples & keywords in the help page. I sim mostly offline but I think it will have a lot of takers when MSFS2020 is released: at a glance I didn't find a single reference in the hype to non-realtime weather in the new sim. D

One of the (many) great things about Flight Unlimited was the ability to attach sounds to moving scenery objects and to set the object's speed to zero. It was a very effective way of adding ambient sounds to an airport as the volume of each different noise (birdsong, cafe chatter, road traffic etc) would change as you moved closer to or further from the source. Machinery louder at the maintenance hangars, birdsong clearer out on the grass, street sounds from beyond the terminal... Ahh, great days. I'd also love to know if it is possible in FS2004. It's one thing I've really missed.