Best use of the manual cache?

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I have decent internet speeds and no caps, should I bother with the manual cache? I set a rather large rolling cache.

Doing some experiments downloading some airports and surrounding areas I frequent… Seems to download quite a bit of data for the photogen areas. Problem I’m having is the more regions I add the slower, and slower the interface is to use. It’s getting almost impossible to use at 6-8GB. Is that too much for a manual cache? Seems keeping the selected areas max 1.6GB helps, and going easy on high detail. Anyway, is this even worth the effort? Will I see much visual difference, is this just for people with poor internet and I’m wasting my time? thanks

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I want to use it for my fav airports and regions and maybe the highest detailed regions where i frequently fly, but the GUI is very slow.

  • it is not nessecary to display clouds in the manual cache dialog
  • aggregating overlapping regions would be usefull too
  • or a function to write an airport name or city name and the surrounding will build into a cache unit without selecting the tiles
3

I like it for the increase in details and “reality”. Makes sight-seeing much better, when you can recognize what you’re seeing..

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I’ve only tested it a little but it does seem to improve the visuals, and the sometimes late texture “pop”.

But the cache editor tool could use some work… I’d like a feature like Sammy mentioned, check off an airport or city name and it downloads the scenery for X miles around it.

5

Best send that info to the Wish List forum, or a Zendesk. Better for devs to look there.