Simviation Forum - Default scenery on disk ?

Jul 6^th, 2009 at 12:04am

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I have a slight problem. I have tried a global scenery upgrade, and while things do look better for the most part, my frame have taken a HUGE hit for the worse, and I want to reverse what I did.

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I installed it to a temporary folder so that I could pick and choose what files i wanted to install.... so, UNINSTALL will not work in this case.

I need to know ... on what disk are the DEFAULT SCENERY files located on? or.... am I just looking at a uninstall / reinstall???? If you say uninstall... im gonna slap someones post back to their firewall. lol

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Reply #1 - Jul 6^th, 2009 at 4:45am

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Delete the install that you made to a temp folder. Reinstall to that folder once again. Go through and find each file that was copied and/or modified. That is the only way to get things back to normal. If you can't, you only have yourself to blame.

Any time I come across an installer, I install to a different folder. Then, any time I run into a file that needs to be replaced, I make a note of it and zip it before I replace it. That way, I can replace individual files to retain a good sim.

Otherwise, you ARE stuck with reinstalling. No one's fault but your own . . . Wink

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Reply #2 - Jul 6^th, 2009 at 8:31am

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Reply #3 - Jul 7^th, 2009 at 4:39pm

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Thank god for WINRAR being FREE!!! Roll Eyes

i am almost done un-CABing Disk 3 and 4, and putting those cabs in a folder on the desktop, to which i will have to move to the FS9 main folder to re-write everything...... AGAIN.

Hopefully my 4 hours of doing this will give me back my 25-50 fps even with the Real Environment Pro weather on "real world" and flying in a hell storm.

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Reply #4 - Jul 7^th, 2009 at 5:29pm

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For future reference, the easiest way to back anything up is to take a copy of it. For example; if you want to back up the FS9\Scenery folder, right-click on it & select Copy. Then Right-click in a clear space & select Paste. After a couple of minutes you will have a duplicate of the folder named 'Copy of Scenery' sitting alongside it.

You can now safely modify the Scenery folder as much as you like. To revert to the back-up if anything goes wrong simply delete the Scenery folder & rename the 'Copy of Scenery' folder to Scenery.

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Reply #5 - Jul 7^th, 2009 at 8:16pm

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yeah...... in hind sight, i should have selected COPY.... renamed Scenery .... to Scenery.BAK (BAcKup), then pasted the Scenery folder back in just in case i didnt like how things were...

BUT.. at the time I wasnt thinking of actually going back. I wanted to have my sim look better than what it did, cause my default scenery looks like $#!T. well. in the name of FrameRates, it looks/Looked a 1,000 times better. But i can NOT fly in a major thunderstorm, blowing 50-75, 1/4 mile visibility IF THAT!!, and have 3-7 FPS. When i only had default scenery (other than specific addon areas -- KDVI Cool

) same situation, i was running 17-30 FPS. ... I want THAT back.

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Reply #6 - Jul 7^th, 2009 at 8:43pm

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Remember that the HW package made other changes other than just textures.

The following were changed and/or added to:

the Effects folder
The Flights folder
The Uries folder
The Weather folder
The main texture folder
The texture folders for all of the subfolders under Scenery

and the stars.dat file, the suneffect.cfg file and the terrain.cfg file.

The bottom line is that restoring your system to what is was is a bit more complicated than just restoring some of the texture folders.

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Reply #7 - Jul 7^th, 2009 at 10:05pm

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i never ran the self installer directly to the FS9 MAIN. i ran it to a temp folder and then moved what i wanted where i wanted.

i needed to know where the scenery files were on the disks, so that i could replace just the scenery and now that is done.

i never messed with the Weather, due to i like Real Environment Pro's Clouds and sky textures....

did not mess with the Uries cause I like what i already had.

Effects... mostly water spay and contrails (I will be fixing the contrails shortly)

I dont do "select a flight" ..... I fly my own flights through MP or "Create a flight". � If i could, I would just UN-CODE the "Select-a-Flight" because TO ME it is a waste of disk space due to code. I never use it, probably never will.

as for the Main Textures.... still using Real Environment Pro textures

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Reply #8 - Jul 14^th, 2009 at 7:53pm

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well..... the last 3 days have been HELL on me thanks to FS9. Angry

UGH!

right now is the 3rd time that i am having to RE-install it.

What its doing. :: well, i tried to get all the scenery files from the disks - no joy. missing 1/2 the files which made the sim not want to load up.

reinstalled.

starting putting my craft and 'modules' back in...... CTD (Crash to Desktop) wont even let me get to the Select a Flight....... Started going through the craft and Modules deleting things 1 thing at a time... no go. still CTD.

have done this 2 times already. This time, I see that I am going to have to take the next 2 weeks and install EACH AND EVERY CRAFT / Program / Scenery and try to run the sim to see if it will boot up with the new addition. If not, then I know where the problem is.

Roll Eyes

UGH.... WHERE'S MY BASEBALL BAT!!!???? Angry

no FlightSim tonight Cry

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