NZFF

How to make a manual scenery cache in MSFS, if your internet is not the best, or if you want to fly a specific region such as only in New Zealand ALL the time, you can create cache of higher quality scenery for that area, and fly it offline.

Watch this non flying User Interface tutorial a 15 minute video from BelGeode's You Tube Channel, he will show you how to make a manual scenery cache. Using his native born country, the entire island of Jamaica as an example, at various quality levels.

[MSFS] Microsoft Flight Sim Short - Creating A Scenery Cache

This seems to be big problems at the moment with manual caching. You can have a go but I tried to do the top of South Island all the way from West Coast Nelson to Blenheim to Wellington in high resolution took ages to highlight then the download took an hour then only was like 1.3 megabytes and slowed my system write down to 1 or 2 frames i will be doing it again once they fix it i may even do all nz one night.

Also check Microsoft Flight Simulator Forum about all the troubles people having with manual caching.

I have downloaded all of NZ and Chatham Islands, 104,857,600KB
But now how do I fire up MSFS2020 in the offline mode?

Wow Doug this must of taken you a day or so to highlight? Try running it with the internet off would be good to know.

waka172rg wrote:Wow Doug this must of taken you a day or so to highlight? Try running it with the internet off would be good to know.

Yep it took about 8 or 9 hours to do the lot all in low res with most main towns and cities in medium and heaps of airports in high res then the download I started and went to bed was done when I got up so don't know how long it took.

dbcunnz wrote:I have downloaded all of NZ and Chatham Islands, 104,857,600KB
But now how do I fire up MSFS2020 in the offline mode?

Try looking at Options, General, then Data under Data Connection, look at Online Functionality if it's set to On then set to OFF

Fly with No Internet - Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

Thanks Andrew
Just done a quick flight from NZWB to Omaka using the saved cache all went fine.
Have even got my thousand yr old Microsoft Sidewinder joystick working.