Scenery

Select World, then Scenery Library (If you are in full screen mode you may need to press the ALT key first).

Areas list. This section controls – Scenery areas to be loaded & in what order they get loaded. You can disable the loading of certain scenery areas by Unticking them. Tick them to enable the loading of certain scenery areas.

Using the Move up & Move down button you may adjust the priority of scenery. The higher the priority of a scenery area the quicker it gets loaded (highest priority gets loaded first & so on). I’d recommend increasing the priority of the FS2000…… files as these will be needed almost anywhere you fly.

Edit area. Using this option you can choose to run a scenery area from the hard drive, or to cache it. Caching a scenery area (assuming it is normally run from the hard drive) can improve performance when flying in that area. Ignore this setting if you completely installed Flight Simulator 2000 to your hard drive.

Cache size. This sets the cache size (MB’s) for the scenery library. The cache size is the amount of hard drive space the scenery library uses for caching CD scenery data. A large cache file (50MB or greater) can improve performance for those who didn’t do a full installation of Flight Simulator 2000 (Data can be read off the hard drive much faster than from the CD). If however you performed a complete installation of Flight Simulator 2000 then set this to the lowest allowable setting, which is 10 MB.

Empty cache on exit. Tick this setting to have the contents of the Cache folder deleted upon closing Flight Simulator 2000. This will free up hard drive space, although CD data will need to be re-cached the next time you load Flight Simulator 2000. You should leave this setting Unticked if you intend to fly in the same areas the next time you load up (So no time is wasted re-caching them).

Weather

Select World, then Weather (If you are in full screen mode you may need to press the ALT key first).

Clouds. The further this slider bar is to the right the worse the weather will be & vice versa. Obviously worse weather can adversely affect frame rate (More to render, e.g. lightning). Depending on your system your should set this to Clear for optimal performance, although certain adventures may be intended to be played under such adverse weather conditions.

Precipitation. This slider can only be adjusted if Clouds is set to at least Few. This sets the strength of rain in Flight Simulator 2000. Much like the Cloud setting, this also affects performance, heavy rain will reduce performance (Rain drops must be rendered). Set this to None for optimal performance, although certain adventures are intended to be played under such adverse weather conditions.

Visibility. This setting controls the maximum viewable distance in Flight Simulator 2000. Beyond this distance fogging is used to hide terrain/objects. This setting directly affects performance. I’d recommend setting this to 20 or 30mi which gives a nice trade-off between performance & visibility, although set this lower if necessary. When set to Unlimited visibility you may control the viewable distance with the Maximum unlimited visibility setting.

Wing strength/direction. Ignore this setting, it won’t affect frame rate. Although it will affect how easy/smooth your plane is to control, depending on what direction the wind is blowing.

Real-world weather. Select this option to download the latest real-world weather data provided by Jeppesen. This will enable you to fly using the latest global weather conditions. Obviously this feature isn’t intended for those who will be disabling weather effects to improve performance. NOTE – You must be connected to the Internet to take advantage of this feature.

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