April 25, 201214 yr 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. Keith Guillory
April 25, 201214 yr Author 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. Jehan Kateli
April 25, 201214 yr 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.
April 25, 201214 yr Author 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. Jehan Kateli
April 25, 201214 yr 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)
April 25, 201214 yr About 50 seconds with all DLC except the Mustang We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
April 25, 201214 yr About .5 seconds with 2 SSDs. Jason BocheDelta Virtual Airlines Assistant Chief Pilot, B767-300
April 26, 201214 yr 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. -- 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!
April 26, 201214 yr 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.
April 26, 201214 yr I tried the device manager test too and couldn't find the test either. All that info came from a quick googling though.
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