When I load the -not yet registered- NG panel in the 2D panel only version it takes exactly 3 minutes on a default airfield to load no matter if I load from PIC 767 or the default Chessna. The average loading time for any other high-end add-on (look at my forum name :-) ) is 30 to 45 seconds on a rather well performing system (1,8 GH processor, 512 RAM, 64 MB nVidia graphic).Loading the supanels like the overhead takes about 2 seconds, so this is not a problem.Do you have any hints how to accelerate this initial loading time?

Other simmers having the same problem?

Yes andreas! I too have to wait significantly longer for the panel to load.Subpanels take also a wee bit longer but only for the first time.It never bothered me that much though.//Mike

Most likely IMHO related to the 300M+ of main memory that is being eaten by the plane when you load it. See NUMEROUS other messages about this. System is probably setting up your paging file to accomodate this requirement.- Pete

Sorry, didn

I have the same problem.

--Andreas,You can't! It's not something which you did or didn't do, its an inherant thing (or problem depends on how you look at it) of the panel.It should ,however, be adressed in the next patch (at least I hope so).Regards//Mike

Maybe there is a possibility to leave the whole eyecandy stuff (that I don

OK, so we have to wait patiently until the aircraft is loaded and awaiting the patch possibly adressing this issue..

Only 3 mins. ?? ... You are the lucky one - here it takes 6 minutes from the moment I press "OK" when the aircraft is selected, until I can do anything thing else in FS. So annoying !NO other panels here take more than 2 seconds to load (767PIC, PSS airbus etc.)Seems PMDG737TNG has a serious memory leak problem :-((1400 T-bird, 512 DDR, GF4 128 Mb)Martin

Martin,If it's taking 6 minutes to load the PMDF737 then there's something very wrong with your system assuming you don't have lots (and I mean lots!) of scenery addons.I've just timed things on my system (Athlon 2000XP,1Gb RAM, Ti4600) and from the Create Flight screen it took 24 seconds from the selection of the 2D only 737-600 to when it it appeared in the Create Flight window. A further 30 seconds elapsed before the flight was loaded with that aircraft. Less than 1 minute all told.You should check the size of your page file (XP) or swap file (Win9x) and ensure it's large enough. Min 700Mb, Max 1Gb will suffice. Also perform a defrag on your C drive and that where FS is loaded. The t/bird processor is a bit older than mine but not 6 times slower!Cheers,

The same here- about 30-45 seconds fopr the 2D panelled plane to load. When I go to fly, loading up the sim takes the same as the Cessna (maybe 10 seconds at Meigs).Bruce.1.8G P41G PC-2700GeForce 3 Ti200

I would very much echo the comment about defragging whatever drive your swapfile is set up on. I was extremely sceptical when it was suggested to me by PMDG, but it really did make a difference. And I had last defragged only 6 weeks before and Norton was showing extremely low levels of fragmentation. Nevertheless, after using Norton Speedisk it now takes about 1 minute to load as opposed to about 1.5.-2 minutes before and overall performance is considerably improved, probably because the page file swapping is just a whole lot more efficient. Try it - it's free ;-)Cheers,

Thanks for that hint! I will defrag later on this evening. Hope it will reduce loading time..

Also, given the extreme memory usage we're experiencing, it may be worthwhile to go with a fixed-length swap file. That will keep the file from re-fragmenting after the defrag is completed. Can't hurt, could help.Doug