Hi there, Paul,
What a simple solution. They always say you never see it if it is staring you in the face. Like you, it boils down to only about six planes I ever fly. I am going to shift mine out of the game to a spare folder. I assume that if you then select aircraft, it will load quicker?
With addon scenery, why is it that some really detailed airports do not affect my frame rate, but others, ie Liverpool that I installed yesterday, which is not highly detailed, make my computer stand still? Forgive my ignorance, but I am not a 'buff'.
Changing subject, with ref. to 'Keeping down the kilobytes' thanks for the replies, and they certainly were of help!
Regards,
Tony C  (Bucks, UK0

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Hi Tony...!
I don't think removing the planes to a seperate folder affects the loading times, It just reduces the list of planes in the "Select Aircraft" drop-down menu and makes it quicker to find the one that you want... ...!
..."quicker" I like... ...!

Re: the scenery complexity over certain built-up areas...
I find that my settings give me around 25-35 FPS over fairly sparse areas.
When flying low around San Francisco city, (full of buildings), my frame rates drop to around 10-15 FPS which is fine in straight and level flight.
It is only REALLY noticeable when banking hard over in flight that the scene stutters, 'cos the computer has a difficult time processing the X-Y co-ordinates under those conditions. (...Gave terrible problems with the Spectrum Computers*..... ....)...!

Cheers mate...
Paul.
(Hereford).

P.S. ..*long live Uncle Clive... ...!

Hi Paul (Fozzer),

Nice to see where you abide, better than talking to total strangers, makes it kind of homely. Did not get the relevence 'I like "quicker". Call me thick if you like, but our local saying is Bucks born, Bucks bred, Strong in the arm, Thick in the head. . I do not have the luxury of a re-writer, so will have to store in a folder. Being as this folder will be a fair size, would it be best to store it outside of fs2002?
Like the ref to Clive. My S/Spectram would have had a frame rate of about 10 FPD (frames per day)
See you,

Tony C ( High Wycombe)

Planespotter - where can we get that prog? It sounds very useful.

Fozzer - your specs match mine pretty close - I have a 900 Duron - but you have a way better vid card - I use the USA Mesh available on this site and it does great things on the country side - a lot more realistic - frame rates - not too bad - 14-29. When over a city though it drops to 12 or so - but I have the autogen for buildings set to the max. Download the one for Los Angeles - it will give you SoCal and give it a go - I think you will like it - greatly improves the coastline.

I liked it so much I downloaded the whole set.

I will post a couple in the "raw screenshots" for you tonight.

Good points Tipster, how-ever Fozzer did state that it merely gave him a smaller menu to select his plane from and I know what he's getting at.

I am clawing my way back from a major Hard-drive crash followed by inexplicable dramas in the weeks after the re-build.    I also have the luxury of a CD writer and so I have all my aircraft intact.   For reasons (bordering on stupidity) I have decided to say goodbye to my scenery and start again.    I haven't been happy with the way some of it was running for some time now and am going to take the opportunity of a fresh start.   At least I know what was hot and what was not.

Do I presume from Fozzer's remark that shifting the defaults out (most of which I never use) would mean no 747's etc in the traffic ?    Never thought about that before.?

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Good idea Fozzer. I would just like to make a couple of points. This is something I've been doing for a long time. Never thought to mention it before as it's common practice with CFS2 due to the limiit on number of aircraft installed at any one time.
"Planes I rarely fly seems" a tad long for a folder name to me. It's a matter of preference but I call my spare folder Hangar. In fact I have several named Hangar 1, Hangar 2, Hangar 3 etc. in all my M$ sims This enables me to sort the aircraft into various categories.

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This is fine providing it's done via the Scenery Library. Deactivate 3rd party scenery areas by unchecking the boxes beside them. This is quick & convenient. Please delete areas from the Scenery Library first before attempting to removing the actual scenery files. Not doing this properly will almost certainly cause those dreaded "Scenery File not found" error messages.

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Good suggestion Ozzy. I'm not sure everyone knows that burning files to a CD will convert them to Read-only. This is not a problem unless you want to edit them at a later stage. For example, CFG files or textures will need converting back manually from file Properties before any changes can be saved. Zipping the files or folders you wish to back up first will avoid this problem.

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I'm sure this is a good utility which might suit many people. I'm not keen on aircraft organisers or automatic aircraft installer utilities as I've found they can cause problems. I prefer to install & organise all my files manually.

Thanks for the clarification. Anything that makes life easier is OK by me.