Hi,I have fs2004 and it takes like 2 minutes to start up. I have taken things from control panel and it still takes 2 minutes or 1 minute andd 45 seconds max. My computer is a:HP PavillionWindows 73 GB RAM2.70GHzDoes anyone know how to make it faster to boot up and I don't want to take load from my FS2004, is there any other way?Thank You

The main thing that seems to make a difference to the startup time is how many aircraft you have in your aircraft folder. Try clearing out any you dont use.

Buy this and it will fix that issue for sure.. :( Intel X25-M Mainstream SSDSA2M160G2XXX 2.5" 160GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) For fs9 and OS

The main thing that seems to make a difference to the startup time is how many aircraft you have in your aircraft folder. Try clearing out any you dont use.

Thanks this kind of worked I deleted some aircrafts and it took me 42 seconds to load up anyway you can make it anymore faster?

Thanks this kind of worked I deleted some aircrafts and it took me 42 seconds to load up anyway you can make it anymore faster?

Defrag.Buy better hardware. The solid state drive above sure would do it... at a cost.I also run heavy AI traffic. That made my load time go up considerably.Besides removing aircraft, that's about it...Also, for future reference, stating your CPU speed is 2.7Ghz isn't enough information. Is it a Pentium 4? Core 2 Duo? Maybe it's a Celeron?! :(

Defrag.Buy better hardware. The solid state drive above sure would do it... at a cost.I also run heavy AI traffic. That made my load time go up considerably.Besides removing aircraft, that's about it...Also, for future reference, stating your CPU speed is 2.7Ghz isn't enough information. Is it a Pentium 4? Core 2 Duo? Maybe it's a Celeron?! :(

I'm sorry its a AMD Athlon II and I'm mainly looking to make it faster by doing it for free not buying things thank you

Defrag.Buy better hardware. The solid state drive above sure would do it... at a cost.I also run heavy AI traffic. That made my load time go up considerably.Besides removing aircraft, that's about it...Also, for future reference, stating your CPU speed is 2.7Ghz isn't enough information. Is it a Pentium 4? Core 2 Duo? Maybe it's a Celeron?! :(

There is freeware called BBQHideAI available which will enable you to 'hide' AI aircraft during startup and seems to speed things up a bit!Bill

There is freeware called BBQHideAI available which will enable you to 'hide' AI aircraft during startup and seems to speed things up a bit!Bill

Where do you get it from?

Where do you get it from?

The Library ??http://library.avsim.net/search.php?Search...t&Go=Search

For truly speeding up loading of flights there is one solution that is an SSD drive. I went from close to a minute to around 10 seconds when loading a flight. Boot up to FS takes about 5 seconds. It's a worthwhile investment for FS.

My FS9 takes about 2 mins to load. I just go get coffee -- it's a huge program, and that's just the way it is. Unless you want to invest in an SST drive or something like that, but to me it's just not worth it.

I have fs2004 and it takes like 2 minutes to start up.

Only two minutes?!:(

Only two minutes?!:(

Can't believe no one suggested this... :( Go into your scenery.cfg and disable the scenery areas not relevant to that flight... For example, I use FSM and before every flight I just enable/disable the correct scenery add-ons for that flight. I obviously leave all the default, leave the base layers like UT/ FS Genesis etc... but if I am flying KEWR-LLBG like I am right now I don't need FS loading scenery in Hawaii and Honk Kong...So my scenery.cfg has all my add-ons disabled and I just enable what i need for the flight.I load in under 30 seconds... :( Cheers guys,-P

Paul: I actually used to use Flight Sim Manager to do this, but found it was way too much a pain in the a-- for way too little benefit. Trying to remember what was activated, what wasn't, where I was going, where I was coming from. I just decided to activate everything again and just let FS9 take it's time loading. That's why I didn't really recommend it.But you DO have a good point, as always.

2-5 minutes on a 3.0ghz Duo Core. But then again considering my FS9 folder is 44.5 GB I would say that's pretty good. Remember: Do everything you can to streamline your folder. Look up some tips from FengZ on this.