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Hi Imhariano, many thanks for your helpful reply. I used to enjoy fiddling about with all those Inspector settings, not sure how much difference any of it made! Looks like I needn't bother now then. FSXSE is running at a steady 50 fps with everything at ultra, photoscenery, REX4, ASN etc. - wouldn't have believed it possible a few years ago! CPU runs at 5.2 GHz and overclocks itself! Regards Alan

I've received much help in another thread to get my ancient Win 7 FSX-boxed sim refurbished and running like never before with the Steam edition. With an i9-10900k oc'd at 5.2 Ghz it doesn't half go. Everything to Ultra, unfeasible frame-rates, no stutters or shimmering effects! With its previous incarnation I used Nvidia Inspector to tweak all sorts of graphics settings, anti-aliasing and so on. Most of the posts about NVI on this and other forums fade out around 2015 or so. I was wondering whether in the modern age anyone bothers with Nvidia Inspector, or if with today's CPUs and GPUs you can just leave them at stock settings? Alan PS maybe I should adopt the same strategy for FS2020 and try a first instal in about 2026;)

Peter, yes you are a chap after my own heart! The archaeological process of recovering and re-installing all my files and programs, not to mention 'where did I put that serial number?', has been great fun. And this time I've documented everything. I'm quite touched to find how many vendors enabled me to re-download software I bought years ago - A2A, Aerosoft, REX, ASN, Flight 1 to name few, and even provided updates. Sorry to hear about your Flight1 issues. Maybe I had the advantage of having a completely clean Win 10 Pro and FSXSE instal. Once I'd installed Flight1's 'agent' it found UTxUSA and Gex, which I bought in 2015, and re-downloaded them for me. I think their installer has been re-worked since I first installed them, as it was exceptionally straightforward this time. If you could get every vestige cleaned out, inc. in the Registry, and start from scratch like I did, maybe you'd have success? You could always ask for help on SimForums.com - I built my previous Haswell rig following the advice of NickN whose "Bible" was exactly that when it came to optimising FSX, and I think he's still around. The Man. Brian, you should put your stuff together and get it made into a 'sticky', it would such a help to folks like me. Anyway, I've just made a first flight in my A2A Cub from a (UK2000) hand-modelled Nottingham airport (a mile from where I live) over VFR GenX photoscenery using REX4 + soft clouds and AS Next weather engine. As I stepped round to the garage to fire up the PC it was starting to snow. In FSX as I advanced the throttle under an overcast grey sky - it started to snow! Scary white-out cloudbase at 1000 ft. Awesome! Alan

Well I'm very pleased to report that it worked, and all my photoscenery, UTx etc. is properly installed. The combination of modern hardware and FSX Steam Edition is producing very smooth video at max settings. I'd forgotten just how good A2A's planes are. I'll defintely give FS2020 another 6 months and then review its progress. Thanks again to all of you for your support and advice. Alan

Brian, that's the most comprehensive and useful account of the mysteries of the scenery.cfg file I've ever read, I've put both parts together and printed them off for reference! Eveything is clear at last and I can't tell you how grateful I am for the trouble you went to there. Top Gun, thanks for that heads up. Fortunately I've still got both the DVDs and a copy of the actual files taken from my old Win 7 installation, so I can now see how to copy them into my new FSXSE instal and check the paths are correct from scenery.cfg. I seem to remember by the way that Earth Simulations' installer wasn't entirely user-friendly! Back in 2014 when I was setting up my FSX instal on my new 'NickN's Bible' overclocked i7-4900k, I was greatly helped, not to say rescued, by a chap called Tony Meredith and his pal Mike aka 'Tailwheel' who with infinite patience sorted out the mess I'd made. I'm very touched to receive similar generosity from you guys.

Hi TextRich, after 379 views and no replies I was beginning to get worried! Your reassurance is really helpful and I'll give it a go and report back. Since I made the post I've been looking in some detail at the contents of scenery.cfg and 'how it works' is a bit clearer now. I might just make another post to ask if anyone can point me to a detailed technical explanation of how scenery.cfg and the whole business of 'areas', 'layers' and ordering works (or worked, since FSX is nearly a piece of history now). Five or six years ago when I made my scenery.config file (I think I must have used Scenery Config Editor but I have no memory of it) I really had no idea what I was doing, but it worked. I'd just like to know why, and how! Thanks again Alan

I’ve decided to give MSFS2020 another 6 months or so before I take the plunge, and I’ve successfully installed FSX-SE in my new Win 10 Pro PC, on its D: drive (SSD). I’ve re-installed my A2A aircraft and updated Accu-sim. I’d really appreciate expert guidance regarding scenery - I want to avoid having to re-install all my add-on scenery – VFRGenX, Treescapes, UK2000 airports, UTXUSA – from umpteen DVDs etc. Even if I could remember how to do it! I had the FSX boxed version installed on my previous Win 7 PC (also on D: ), and before I decommissioned it I made an image of each drive. So I have an imaged copy of 93 Gb of add-on scenery from Win 7 which was in D:\FSXAddons\Earth Simulations, D:\FSXAddons\Playsims, and D:\FSXAddons\UK2000, plus UTXUSA files in D:\FSX\FlightOne Simulations. I also have a copy of what I believe was the active scenery.cfg in a folder copied from Win7 C: \Program Data\Microsoft\FSX. I’ve looked at this using Notepad and all the necessary links to all the above scenery files are listed, probably even in the correct order (who knows how I managed this at the time?!). So, here’s my question, if I may: (a) can I just paste my old scenery.cfg file into my new PC, at C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX\Scenery.cfg (i.e. an identical path & location to the one in my old Win 7 installation), over-writing what the fresh instal of FSX-SE made; and (b) can I just paste my scenery files in the FSXAddons folder into exactly the same location as it was before (root of D: \) so that the paths as far as scenery.cfg are unchanged? (and similarly with the other scenery files into corresponding locations). Finally, do I need to copy over any other files, or will FSX re-index things when I run it again? Big thanks for any help with this. Alan