I hope MS does something to improve loading times, this is unbelievable. Just getting to the main menu takes an eternity. It is taking even longer today than yesterday. How can this be so slow?
 

Cheers, Pete

Yes it is a pain.

When I look at the performance tab under task manager during loading it appears that disk usage and Ethernet are minimal. I wonder what takes so long.

It does take awhile to start but in game load times after clicking FLY are not to bad. FSX load times were extremely long at launch.  

I'm seeing the same thing, after initial launch and landing on the "press any key" screen it will take between 5 and 10 minutes to get to the main menu yet in Task Manager, Resource Monitor and Process Lasso there is very little to no activity for disk and network but I see Task Manager shows CPU at around 50% and GPU at near on 100% a short time after leaving the "press any key" screen and this continues until the Main Menu is displayed so I am wondering is it compiling shaders at each startup and not caching anything?  

I would think this would definitely been advertised to the devs during all the pre testing before formal release and there should be more info out here on the web with people having the same issue during all that time.

Maybe the devs have really "pushed the boat" out in terms of realism; I mean, how long do you have to wait to board a flight, get in the air and on towards your destination ;-)

For the record, my system is all up-to-date in terms of Windows updates and all drivers.  My Win10 installation is on its own dedicated SSD and I installed MSFS on a brand new unused 240GB SSD and my broadband is between 60 to 75Mbps.

Edited August 20, 20205 yr by Golf-Uniform-Yankee

1 hour ago, Golf-Uniform-Yankee said:

I'm seeing the same thing, after initial launch and landing on the "press any key" screen it will take between 5 and 10 minutes to get to the main menu yet in Task Manager, Resource Monitor and Process Lasso there is very little to no activity for disk and network but I see Task Manager shows CPU at around 50% and GPU at near on 100% a short time after leaving the "press any key" screen and this continues until the Main Menu is displayed so I am wondering is it compiling shaders at each startup and not caching anything?  

I would think this would definitely been advertised to the devs during all the pre testing before formal release and there should be more info out here on the web with people having the same issue during all that time.

Maybe the devs have really "pushed the boat" out in terms of realism; I mean, how long do you have to wait to board a flight, get in the air and on towards your destination ;-)

For the record, my system is all up-to-date in terms of Windows updates and all drivers.  My Win10 installation is on its own dedicated SSD and I installed MSFS on a brand new unused 240GB SSD and my broadband is between 60 to 75Mbps.

Make sure Process Lasso isn't assigning Flightsimulator only a few cores.  Make sure it is using all cores.  I had this as well.  I found my issue was that Process Lasso was only assigning it to cores 6-7.  I am assuming I had set that up for P3D.