Completely removing 3rd party scenery from MSFS

Hi,

Very new to MSFS2020. Have tried adding some scenery enhancements into the 'community' folder. Most have worked well, but one really hasn't.

It is some Sydney scenery which completely killed my framerate over the harbour area and city. I naively perhaps just removed the whole folder AUSydney from the Community folder thinking this would revert back to how it was before. Drop a folder into Community - hope it works - doesn't work - delete it out. Whilst the scenery has reverted to default or so it seems, the framerate problems are still present and becomes a slide show over Sydney. I'm worried that I've somehow broken Sydney now in the game and it's completely unplayable. I deleted the game cache file as I read that somewhere. Had no effect unfortunately.

Any help greatly appreciated please? What else do I need to do other than take the folder out of community?

Thanks,

Hi,

assuming all you did to add the scenery was to place it into your community folder (no actual installation) then you’ve done it correctly. You simply remove it from the community folder.

I take it..you then exited and restarted the sim?

If the fps is still low then you could try deleting the rolling cache (assuming it’s enabled).go into the options/general settings and click the Data tab. Scroll down and you should see rolling cache. You should also see “delete rolling cache file”

Again, quit the sim and restart it.. and see if that fixes things. I’d probably be tempted to reboot the pc too.

What sort of fps were you getting over Sydney before you installed the addon? Depending on your computer spec you may struggle in built up areas anyway. What spec is your pc?

Regards

Steve

Something Nick from ORBX recommends doing when issues with add-on scenery...

1. Delete any rolling cache

 

2. Delete the Content.xml file

 

(AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Content.xm)

 

3. Delete the simulator .dat files (Select ALL then delete)

 

(AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\SceneryIndexes\*.dat)

 

4. Do not add anything to the Community folder

I have a 1Tb rolling cache and skip step 1 because it takes too long to rebuild a new one. Just fly in a different area.

Step 2 and 3 only takes a few seconds. You can delete to Recycle Bin first as a backup, then restart to rebuild the Content.xml and .dat files. Once you restart, empty out the Recycle Bin.

Step 4 is just the first time you restart (You can just rename the Community folder as Community_DISABLED or something to prevent it from being active.) Then you can add your add-ons back or rename back to Community.

Thank you all.

Deleting the rolling cache file and restarting the game several times seemed to do the trick. Framerates back to normal. The reason for the attempt at improving the Sydney scenery was the absence of the Harbour Bridge from the default MSFS. Words fail me sometimes ;)