Hi all,

Now that I am trying the Prosim beta version over the Netherlands I have added a lot of freeware for the Netherlands (21 Gb) from Flightsim.to.
I now experience the issue that as soon as the black loading screen appears after startup it remains black. 
Tried it 3 times and after 7 minutes still black.With just a few freeware it starts up very quickly.

Is it normal that with 20+ Gb it might take a very long time ?  Never had that with P3D so I do not know if this is normal behavior.

All advices are welcome.

regards, Gerard

 

Edited January 17, 20215 yr by GSalden

You might need faster hdd. I have 130+ gb in my community folder and never had a problem with loading. Loading takes 2-3 minutes max to get to the world map. I'm using 2 1tb nvme m2 ssd

55 minutes ago, devgrp said:

You might need faster hdd. I have 130+ gb in my community folder and never had a problem with loading. Loading takes 2-3 minutes max to get to the world map. I'm using 2 1tb nvme m2 ssd

Here I use a 2Tb SSD M2 so that should be fast enough imho....

Hi Gerard - great to see you in MSFS for a change!

Have you added all the MSFS folders to your anti-virus scanning exclusions?

31 minutes ago, GSalden said:

Here I use a 2Tb SSD M2 so that should be fast enough imho....

Adamski might be right in adding the community folder to your exclusion list in windows defender. I also have done this so it might help 

Edited January 17, 20215 yr by devgrp

18 minutes ago, Adamski_NZ said:

Hi Gerard - great to see you in MSFS for a change!

Have you added all the MSFS folders to your anti-virus scanning exclusions?

Hi Adam,

When flying I have no AV running. Yesterday I made 3 sightseeing flights over the Netherlands and everything worked great. OC situation.

Today I have tried 2 times : first time with all freeware I had the black loading screen.

Second time (no freeware) I was flying for 15 minutes and out of a sudden MSFS froze and after 20 sec it crashed to desktop. Fair weather situation.

In the log I only see that MSFS.exe has crashed.
More experienced MSFS flyers might know what to do.... ?

Edited January 17, 20215 yr by GSalden

It is possible that one of your freeware's is acting erratically.

I'd recommend you use one of those addon manager utilities to uncheck (disable) each addon one by one until you can zero in on the specific addon that's causing these loading issues and remove it.

1 minute ago, FAZZ3 said:

It is possible that one of your freeware's is acting erratically.

I'd recommend you use one of those addon manager utilities to uncheck (disable) each addon one by one until you can zero in on the specific addon that's causing these loading issues and remove it.

Great idea ! Thanks 

2 hours ago, GSalden said:

Hi all,

Now that I am trying the Prosim beta version over the Netherlands I have added a lot of freeware for the Netherlands (21 Gb) from Flightsim.to.
I now experience the issue that as soon as the black loading screen appears after startup it remains black. 
Tried it 3 times and after 7 minutes still black.With just a few freeware it starts up very quickly.

Is it normal that with 20+ Gb it might take a very long time ?  Never had that with P3D so I do not know if this is normal behavior.

All advices are welcome.

regards, Gerard

 

You need the linker ap so than you can enable mods you want to use before loading. This will speed up your load times and help you find the problematic mods.

Gerard,

Where's the Prosim Netherlands scenery you refer to on this thread?

3 minutes ago, DJJose said:

You need the linker ap so than you can enable mods you want to use before loading. This will speed up your load times and help you find the problematic mods.

Yep. @GSalden here it is: https://flightsim.to/file/1572/msfs-addons-linker

1 hour ago, FAZZ3 said:

Yep. @GSalden here it is: https://flightsim.to/file/1572/msfs-addons-linker

Is this better than the rw29 Package Manager  that I am using now ?

1 hour ago, DJJose said:

Gerard,

Where's the Prosim Netherlands scenery you refer to on this thread?

Prosim is a cockpit suite
 

https://flightsim.to/by-country/NL/

This is where you can find the scenery for the Netherlands.

More than 70GB of stuff, mostly freeware, in my Community folder and the sim still loads almost normally. It certainly takes a bit more than in the beginning, with a lot fewer add-ons, but it never takes more than 1 minute in each of the screens during the startup process. Maybe I'm just lucky. Sometimes it takes hours to chase down the add-on that is causing trouble, but you have to do it.

I installed days ago a freeware airport from Flightsim.to that inadvertently caused that all default airport objects (static aircraft, fuel tanks, trucks, ground people) were not displayed in the default airports and payware that use default objects. It took me one hour and a half to chase down the offending airport. Finally I was able to post the findings to the creator and he quickly addressed the issue with a fix the same day.

These are the type of things we are exposed to when we download the lots of excellent stuff available for enjoyment from Flightsim.to or from any other similar site.

By the way, Lorby-SI, the same developer that made it for P3D, has developed a MSFS version of its Add-on Organizer, already available as prototype. It maybe help.

Cheers, Ed

 

 

18 GB in mine and no issues with loading at all. As FAZZ3 suggested, if you have a black loading screen, or freeze ups or crashes on start, something in your Community folder is likely not playing nice with the current sim version. Spilt your Community folder in half and load the sim with each half separately. Assuming there is only one problem mod, you will then immediately eliminate 50% of your mods. Then repeat with the the problem half, splitting in half. You will quickly isolate the gremlin - then either check for an update to that mod or delete it as a bad mod.

A lot of that Netherlands flightsim.to stuff is Google imports. That can also be a problem as some modders do not optimize properly. It can also be very hard on FPS if you have large areas of it. 

Edited January 17, 20215 yr by RaptyrOne