Doing it right now with NYC.
As another person posted, above, it does get a bit weird when you zoom in/zoom out or move… the squares no longer stay over the original area. But managed to figure it out. Will see how it goes!
I have
OffscreenTerrainPreCaching quality = ULTRA (3)
and around Lukla, Mt Everest, I don’t see any (hardly, tiny spots) morphing
Neither in flight LOWI to St.Gallen (flying VR)
i don’t want you to feel uncomfortable A/M, but yes, the manual cache block selection grid parallaxes along the y-axis wrt the map.
and i spent 1 to 2 hours selecting manhattan,ny, in highest detail and waited some minutes for the download to complete, it did, occupying around 5 MB * on disk.
(* value form my memory, could habe been 80 MB, the unfortunate point is 80 MB download after 2 hours selecting is pointless (also those surely not is the data?))
I second mc from flight plan (i ticketed this to ZD indepently some weeks ago).
(is rc working at all? mh looks “horribly” disfigured (high settings, 2 MByte / s down) the first time i fly over it, and each time after)
Last time I tried the download size was in the many Gb range. A few subsections of Manhattan are ~1.5 Gb each (see post referenced in my linked post below). For me ~300 sq mi around Manhattan was 45 Gb about a year ago in highest level detail. Since then, I’ve given up on the manual cache and I am purely going with my rolling cache and the new preload cache option in the sim put on ULTRA. The Manual Cache Should Be Redesigned From the Ground Up, Possibly Connecting Designing a Flight Plan With Manual Caching if Desired - #11 by Weiwei20050623
Such values are more in line to what I would have thought.
My MC is / was set to either 200 GB, 100 GB or 50 GB (I don’t remember, one launch of FS it got lost (“path invalid” or something around this line) although it was very present in the fileystem where I created it; i did launch FS on another, my portable machine, though recently before which does have a different path. Perhaps ((M)C) location settings are synchronised to OneDrive / the account which would explain why “it changed”, my “My Documents” are sync’ed to OneDrive) and I selected Mh @highest, NY @medium and surroundings @lowest.
Perhaps the MC size wasn’t sufficient and the download bailed out.
Notes to developers:
- does MC bail out when not sufficent space? (makes sense) Inform the user about it!
- does FS sync (M)C locations across accounts / OneDrive? Please don’t (particularly file paths, free space are likely to be different across machines (hw performance might be as well but hardly for me (also anyone flying might actually want to experience the same look across machines and even take note of the hw perf capabilities rather than having the same perf))).
It would be a nice Feature to have the ability to cache the scenery according to the Flightplan.
So kind of a manual cache based on the flight you are about to start.
In best case it would happen during preparing the Aircraft for the flight. In the FBW it is for me about 30 minutes.
Maybe it would also eliminate some sources of problems.
The scenery which has to be downloaded could be a narrow band, with the option to revert back to streaming, if you for example have do difert.
The whole Feature should be optional
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Did they get rid of the manual cache? You could use the manual cache to cache your route when it worked.
For me it never seemed to really work (manual cache)
Also with the interface it would be a Nightmare to do it for a 1000NM flight
It’s an interesting idea and I also thought about a similar feature but never created a topic on it.
Some places I could cache and some places, normally cities, I cannot for the life of me cache as it CTD’s after a few seconds. Cape Town South Africa, refuses to be cached on my system aswell as OR Tambo airport (FAOR). Both result in CTD
Hi everyone, 5 topics requesting improvements to the Manual Cache have been merged together into this thread. As a result some continuity may be a bit jumbled up in places.
The good news is that this wishlist request has increased to 190 votes because of the merge!
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Manual cache KSFO, KATL… KLAX in high resolution was created normally, at numerous attempts to similarly create LTFM and some others - CTD !
Seems to be working fine in north america…
Personally I think the manual cache should be simplified so all you have to do is select whatever area you require, and you should be able to do that at any zoom level. Once selected THEN you selected whether you want Low/Medium/High res. Having to create an area with high level at such a zoomed in perspective is what makes it tiresome at the very least.
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To select a large area with high resolution at once, there is a small trick 
:
- zoom in to get high resolution selection box
- start drawing a box
- zoom out while keeping your right mouse clicked.
- go to the end point using the zoom
- release your right click
voila
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I was just to write down this request, pre caching based on flight plan, great idea, I hope they can implement somehow. Kinda like a internet movie stream cache…
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Just tried the Manual Cache for the first time in a while after someone advised me to try it and all I can say is it works and works very well! Tried Caching a smallish area Brighton U.K and after an hour or so due to slow internet 35GB later it was downloaded. No crashes or errors. Flew in the area straight away and was blown away by how good it looked! No Stutters or popping in scenery. I’m currently Caching other areas now without any problems at all. So all I can say is thankyou Microsoft/Asobo!