How long does Flight take to start for you?

[flyerkg 62]

I wouldn't mind 3-4 minutes. Does it matter where on your hard drive the application is installed and run from? My downloaded Flight and install both vanished before I could even start the program.

[fsxkitty 62]

I doubt a new PC will work with the load times. Maybe a faster HDD or an SSD will work.

 

That's why I'm getting a Vertex 4.

[Oracle427 45]

If anything is accessing the HDD during the load such as an AV scanner, it's going to dramatically degrade start time.

 

With a machine 5 years old, you might have an IDE controller and a not so stellar hard drive. You could have a poor sustained read rate possibly as low as ~18B/s. That will bump up your load time to very close to 2 minutes.

[fsxkitty 62]

If anything is accessing the HDD during the load such as an AV scanner, it's going to dramatically degrade start time.

 

With a machine 5 years old, you might have an IDE controller and a not so stellar hard drive. You could have a poor sustained read rate possibly as low as ~18B/s. That will bump up your load time to very close to 2 minutes.

 

My average read is 64.9 MB/s.

[Oracle427 45]

How did you get that figure? That doesn't sound right to me.

[Sarlac 0]

Lots of tools available

 

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Benchmarks/Disk-Bench.shtml

 

Or

 

http://www.steelbytes.com/?mid=20

 

Or

 

Test Your Hard Drive Speed With Windows 7′s Device Manager – You can test your hard drive speed by going to the Device Manager, Expanding the Hard Drive Controllers, select the Port and Click on the Test button.

 

Or

 

At a command prompt run the following command as an administrator:

 

winsat disk -drive c (you can substitute c with the drive letter of your choice)

[HiFlyer 9,376]

About 50 seconds with all DLC except the Mustang

[jasonboche 7]

About .5 seconds with 2 SSDs.

[Oracle427 45]

Thanks for posting that Sarlac. For some reason I can't find the HD test feature in my device manager. I wonder if that is only available in better than Home editions of Win7 64b.

 

I did use winsat and found that the read rate jived with the results from Perfmon.

 

So what I would say is that anyone using an SSD can probably expect start times in under 15 seconds. It will take a little longer than the SSD reads because Flights login to Live! seems to move about 4MBs of data to complete.

 

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Jasonboche,

 

I noticed that Flight starts significantly faster if you close it and relaunch without rebooting the workstation. In my case it takes around 10 seconds without a reboot, if I close it, wait a minute and reopen. Did you try it from a fresh reboot?

 

.5 seconds sounds like you're running off a cache. If that is performance is consistent for you after a reboot, I'd love to know your specs!

[Oracle427 45]

Fsxkitty,

 

The forum won't let me edit my last post to include this suggestion. Try defragging your hard drive. You might gain a bit of performance if you have never done this.

[Sarlac 0]

I tried the device manager test too and couldn't find the test either. All that info came from a quick googling though.