In the Addon Manager there is a tick box that says "View Optimization" if I remember right. Not sure if that box needs to be clicked or not?
It's a setting. If it "needed" to be always checked, as if one option was good and the other bad, we wouldn't have made it user-settable, but rather have it always set in the "correct" way automatically.
So, clearly, is something that might give different results on different systems, that's why it's settable.
It adds a further optimization, that will make objects (only for sceneries handled by the Addon Manager) that are behind the user, to be entirely unloaded.
It's more orr less an experimental setting so, the default value is not to use it. It *might* help with lesser system, but it might be worse if you have a fast system with plenty of ram and vram.
The rule it's always the same, basically: the more powerful a system is, the more stuff you'll want to have it thrown at the video card and leave it there, instead of costant swapping in/out. But, of course, lesser systems don't have such luxury so, they HAVE to constantly swap in/out objects, because in *that* case, the overhead of swapping in/out is less than the actual impact those objects (assuming they *fit* in video memory in the first place) requires to be drawn.
I usually left it to off. But it has no relationship with the other settings.
I hit the button to the left that says "Save to FSX" and noticed that when I opened mf FSX.cfg it added a bunch of enteries like Bufferpools, Dirtyparticles, etc. I would rather not have all these other enteries since after Michael at FS-GS set me up, we weren't using them.
Well, don't think that, just because you don't see the entries in the FSX.CFG, FSX do not use those settings. It always use them with some value, it's just that, if they are not in the FSX.CFG, they'll be initialized at their default value, otherwise what is written in the FSX.CFG will take precedence. The default values for the Adddon Manager should be the same as in FSX so, basically, there should't be any difference compared to not having this settings in the FSX.CFG, unless you start playing with the sliders and save them.
So can I just delete all the other enteries the the Addon Manager added and just keep the [FSDREAMTEAM]AntiPopup=4 entry and edit it in the cfg going forward so I dont get all the other edits posted to the cfg?
Yes, this will work too.