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Loading screen stays black after lots of freeware (21Gb)

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6 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

 

I have bigger size of community add ons than you, so I don't think it's an issue. However, I did experienced what you described few times because of either conflict between add ons mod or improperly installed add ons/mods in community folder. The only way to fix is to back up and empty community folder, and after reintroduce add on one by one.

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Try this: https://flightsim.to/file/1572/msfs-addons-linker

Put all of your add-ons in a seperate folder. In fact you can group your addons so that you can load all of the add-on in a seperate folder. Then when I start MSFS I select only what I need for the flight. 

MSFS loads faster and there is less chance of conflicts.

 

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29 minutes ago, sd_flyer said:

I have bigger size of community add ons than you, so I don't think it's an issue. However, I did experienced what you described few times because of either conflict between add ons mod or improperly installed add ons/mods in community folder. The only way to fix is to back up and empty community folder, and after reintroduce add on one by one.

Good idea. Thanks.

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14 minutes ago, KenG said:

Try this: https://flightsim.to/file/1572/msfs-addons-linker

Put all of your add-ons in a seperate folder. In fact you can group your addons so that you can load all of the add-on in a seperate folder. Then when I start MSFS I select only what I need for the flight. 

MSFS loads faster and there is less chance of conflicts.

 

Will DL the app and see if it has more features than the package manager .

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7 minutes ago, GSalden said:

Will DL the app and see if it has more features than the package manager .

Looks like Package Manager will help with installing packages. Addon Linker will help manage add-ons creating symlinks in your content folder with a seperate folder or folders where you can keep your add-ons. It allows to just before starting the sim to add or remove symlinks dynamically. 

I know I've had the sim take 10+ minutes to load on a non ssd drive once after adding a ton of freeware.  I thought the sim had crashed, but something told me to just leave it.  So I walked away and came back later and it had loaded.  It hasn't happened again, but I try to install freeware in smaller batches. 

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1 hour ago, KenG said:

Looks like Package Manager will help with installing packages. Addon Linker will help manage add-ons creating symlinks in your content folder with a seperate folder or folders where you can keep your add-ons. It allows to just before starting the sim to add or remove symlinks dynamically. 

Lorby Si’s Addon Organizer is as a beta also available for MSFS.

https://www.lorby-si.com/downloads.html

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That photogrammetry scenery, especially ones that are poorly produced, can take a looong time to load.  (The guy who does most of the ones in the Netherlands, though, does a pretty good job of optimizing his.)

That said, what you are describing does seem abnormal.  I can launch the sim with several of those Netherlands sceneries, totaling 50GB or so without trouble on a quick NVMe drive.

I'd do what other folks in this thread suggest and grab Addons Linker -- it is much more useful than the package manager.  Then you can just enable what you need for any flight.  It also makes it a lot easier to hunt down mods that are causing problems because you can easily enable and disable things en masse.

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