jimjones
October 14th, 2009, 23:58
When scenery.cfg goes south, the FSX OldScenry.cfg may not be enough. Have another backup somewhere.
During conversion of fsx scenery, three programs were being used alternately, when fsx frame rates went from 30 to 3. That to us simmers is intolerable, so I exited fsx and tried again. When bringing up the scenery library I noticed all the titles were gone, yet I was able to select different flights at different places and the new sceneries would appear. A look at the scenery.cfg showed all the sceneries listed in the proper order scenery wise, but the lines that make up the scenery were scrambled and the scenery title lines were missing. Before I had realized the problem, entering fsx more than once caused fsx to copy the scrambled file into the backup OldScenery.cfg. Argghhh.
Fortunately I had another backup and was saved from having to rebuild 250 sceneries. The thought of doing that was agonizing until I remembered I had the backup.
During conversion of fsx scenery, three programs were being used alternately, when fsx frame rates went from 30 to 3. That to us simmers is intolerable, so I exited fsx and tried again. When bringing up the scenery library I noticed all the titles were gone, yet I was able to select different flights at different places and the new sceneries would appear. A look at the scenery.cfg showed all the sceneries listed in the proper order scenery wise, but the lines that make up the scenery were scrambled and the scenery title lines were missing. Before I had realized the problem, entering fsx more than once caused fsx to copy the scrambled file into the backup OldScenery.cfg. Argghhh.
Fortunately I had another backup and was saved from having to rebuild 250 sceneries. The thought of doing that was agonizing until I remembered I had the backup.