If you aren’t near the scenery, the object isn’t loaded into VRAM. So….no.

If you use the digital download edition, that’s basically what you get now. If nothing goes wrong, you’ll never enter the key again. I mention entering the key occasionally because if anything goes wrong with the system (like wiping out preferences) then the key is needed, so I don’t want any user to say “hey, you promised it would be only once, so I fed the paper with my key written on it to my dog.” But the system should be interruption free normally.

Hi Ben,

Some freeware scenery packs come with loads of objects so our Scenery folder will become congested with repetitive objects in no time, so say goodbye to VRAM if you downloaded too much sceneries.
Will it help VRAM if we temporarily move unused scenery folders to another folder and keep only the ones we will be flying between?

Rgds,
Hayri

That’s not a must-have feature – that’s a must-never-have feature!

Here’s why:
1. Those libraries have some kind of copyright terms and licensing terms, and those terms are probably -not- “copy this stuff INTO your scenery pack.” The whole point of libraries is that you can use other people’s work by reference, without actually copying it.

2. Copying the items would be super-inefficient for performance. X-Plane loads each object once, each texture once. But if you -copy- a texture into another scenery pack, X-Plane doesn’t know that it’s a duplicate, and loads -each- file once.

So if all airports copied the art assets from the packs they used, a user going to an area with a lot of airports would have much higher VRAM use since the library objects would have their textures loaded over and over and over.

cheers
Ben

It’s offtopic but, as a feature of the WED editor, it MUST have a function that exports the used objects from the libraries and copies them in a folder which is called “library” in the Airport directory. Thus, it is no longer necessary always be installed hundreds of different libraries, because you usually use just a few files from it.

Done! Actually so far I have not had any issues though during using the reply scrubber bit in flight to watch my take-off I did have a crash but I don’t know if that is Windows 10 related or not. But that was my only issue so far (I did submit a bug report)

I nominate you! 🙂

Welllll someone needs to try it first. If no one else tries it then how will anyone else be able to wait and see 😉

I did the same on my Win7 box.