Memory leaks...

[birdguy]

I have adding MAIW military traffic to my contemporary FS9 installation. I came across in the traffic scenery for Elmendorf.

We are now placing all MAIW land class scenery files in the FS9/Scenery/Base/Scenery folder. A known bug in the FS9 code allows a memory leak to occur eventually causing a hard crash to desktop if a land class file is not isolated in certain scenery folders. Therefore it cannot be located in the same folder as the rest of the Elmendorf scenery. Placing it in the above mentioned location keeps in it a safe folder that is already active on your system and will prevent any kind of memory leak problem from occurring.

Although I haven't noticed any memory leaks (I wouldn't now one if it bit me) I have moved all my landclass files to FS9/scenery/base/scenery and everything loooks normal. (I have not done it on my CalClassic installation.)

Anyone who knows more about this stuff than I do have any ideas on the subject?

Noel

[Tom/CalClassic]

Hi,

They cannot be in a folder that contains a texture folder. That's why we have a special CalClassic Landclass folder (and scenery layer) that doesn't contain one. Placing files into the Scenery/base/scenery folder is also an option (but a poorer one) since you are mixing default and addon files - you may have problems figuring out which is which later. Also, our landclass files are designed to have priority over other landclass packages (like FSGenesis, etc.) because we often reduce the size of cities, etc. for our retro sceneries. Placing them into Scenery/base/scenery will eliminate this desired effect, and you will always fly with modern landclass.

Hope this helps,

[PeteHam]

On the subject of Landclass bgl's .... is it possible to have a dedicated Landclass Folder ( containing the scenery folder ) and add it to the FS Scenery Library ?

That way all the various addon landclass files would be contained in one place.

Not sure of the priority the folder would have though.

Pete.

[Tom/CalClassic]

That is exactly what the CalClassic Landclass folder and scenery layer is. So the answer is yes. And you can have as many as you like.

Priority among landclass folders works the same way as other scenery - the higher the layer, the higher the priority. There is no interaction between landclass layers and regular scenery layers, so there is no worry about those.

Hope this helps,

[PeteHam]

Thanks Tom

Pete.