Rolling cache

During my troubleshooting period one of the questions asked of me was

“Do have you have Rolling Cache set up?”.

I replied that I did not know and just forgot about it.

Well I did have it set up and the size was 8GB.

I increased it to 12GB

I looked at the “MANUAL CACHE” and it was set at 0.

I increased it to 12GB

It said I could change it later.

Since I have plenty of free space (for now) I figured what the heck, the more the better.

I don’t know exactly how that stuff works but………

VFRguy

If I am correct (big if), lol, the rolling cache is used to store local scenery for times when you don't have Internet access but still want the eye candy. You have to select the areas you want stored, it goes down to street level.

Course, I could be wrong :) It is a Tuesday

The rolling cache is primarily there to minimize the amount of data downloaded, though could be used if you don't have an internet connection. If you regularly fly in the same areas, the sim can use the locally stored data rather than downloading from the server again. It will refresh itself based on where you're flying, so moving to a new area could mean the data for previous ones is automatically dumped to make room. Manual caches, on the other hand, are specifically chosen by the user and won't be automatically removed and, as with the rolling cache, can be used offline.

Here's a guide for the manual cache.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/how-to-create-and-manage-manual-cache-regions/136740

If you cut off the panhandle of Oklahoma leaving the rest to form one

big square, that is the area that I do 60% of my flying.

Sounds like that might be useful for me.

You think?

Just as well.

Last night I was gimping around in that area when a warning appeared

and said my package was out of date and that I have been logged off.

I saw that warning before when I got myself in big trouble.

I quickly put things back the way they were before, rebooted my computer

and fired up FS to see if I still could fly.

Things looked good and for a better check I flew a flight pan from Norman Oklahoma to Wichita Kansas.

All is well.

That ends my fooling around with Rolling Cache.