14 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

That’s with the computer already running. No point starting from the time I press the power button since that’s pretty short anyway. Less than a minute.

15 minutes is very slow. List your kit.

I can accomplish Ray´s timings. Mine is a minute longer from the scenario screen to fully loaded, but this is driven by a very high setting for the terrain view range in my config, and the huge ammount of terrain tiles that need to be loaded.

I think the killer for loading times are Orbx True Earth packages. I don’t have any but I’ve seen loading times on PCs that have them and it’s considerably longer.

17 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

I think the killer for loading times are Orbx True Earth packages. I don’t have any but I’ve seen loading times on PCs that have them and it’s considerably longer.

that makes sense.  I have true earth florida.  Also various megascenery earths

I have True Earth Florida as well as all the ORBX Global stuff and dozens of add on airports. I’ll list my kit later. Just got in from my A.M. walk.

3 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

That’s with the computer already running. No point starting from the time I press the power button since that’s pretty short anyway. Less than a minute.

15 minutes is very slow. List your kit.

intel(R) core (TM) i7-7700 [email protected] RAM 16.0 GB 64bit operating system

GTX 10708GB RAM

4 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

I've just timed it. My setup is FTX Global, UTX Europe, North America and Caribbean and FS Global plus lots of 3rd party airport scenery.

From launch to the Scenario menu takes 48s. From Scenario window to fully loaded takes a further 55s. So 1m 43s in total.

According to Ai Companion I have 994 BGL files plus an additional 120 aigfp files for AI Traffic Controller. Load times are really not an issue.

With about 50% AIG but Orbx TE all UK and Netherlands. To Selection screen 2:00 and then using default everything to actual loaded 4:19.

1 hour ago, Patco Lch said:

intel(R) core (TM) i7-7700 [email protected] RAM 16.0 GB 64bit operating system

GTX 10708GB RAM

I could understand why loading P3D could take longer.

41 minutes ago, IanHarrison said:

With about 50% AIG but Orbx TE all UK and Netherlands. To Selection screen 2:00 and then using default everything to actual loaded 4:19.

Not surprising. TE takes a while.

21 hours ago, micstatic said:

don't even want to ask how long it takes you to start p3d each time

If you run P3d V4 or prior the load times go up dramatically but thats due to the number of AI Aircraft and has nothing to do with the number of traffic bgl's. In P3d v5, LM fixed the load time issues with AI aircraft now even with nearly 30,000 ai aircraft and approx 2000 traffic bgl's my sim gets to the main menu in around a minute. Just for reference, before V5 it would take 15-20 minutes to load depending on what AI aircraft I had enabled.  One of the many bonuses when they released V5.

2 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Not surprising. TE takes a while.

But quite acceptable. Gives time for coffee and and couple of rusks.

3 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

I could understand why loading P3D could take longer.

A bit of that British hardware snobbery huh.🤣

Just kidding. I still have fun.

39 minutes ago, Patco Lch said:

A bit of that British hardware snobbery huh.🤣

Just kidding. I still have fun.

Huh? You have a CPU running at 3.6Ghz compared to mine running at 5.2. Not snobbery, logic.

9 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Huh? You have a CPU running at 3.6Ghz compared to mine running at 5.2. Not snobbery, logic.

You win.

Just now, Patco Lch said:

You win.

Vic, it isn’t about winning or losing. A CPU running at a lower clock speed will take longer to process data. Have you considered overclocking your CPU.

I've installed all of them. When I first started with AIG, I installed quite a few at one time (can't remember how many ... 10? 30?), and I did that over a few days.

Even now, I run AIG every now and then to check on what's new and install whatever airlines and private jets have been uploaded recently. I fly all over the world, and it's really interesting to see all the different liveries--many of which I don't ever see where I live (Greater Vancouver, so CYVR). Like @Ray Proudfoot, I'm never alone at airports, and I agree that it's a great addition to P3D.