6 minutes here

GSX is the main culprit for long load times.

It's almost 75,000 files and doubles my load time from 3 minutes to over 6 minutes.

1 hour ago, Tuskin38 said:

I usually just go make food, or browse the web while waiting for it to load.

I usually read the avsim forum on my laptop and threads like " #1 reason why I get discouraged using MSFS" while MSFS is loading. By the time I have LittleNavmap, Skyvector up and running and checked latest real weather, co-pilot has pulled out the aircraft from the hangar and "we have lift off".

I always have to read Avsim every day, so I know what is currently wrong with MSFS.  😉

1 hour ago, Drebin27 said:

GSX is the main culprit for long load times.

It's almost 75,000 files

I guess MSFS is going through a lot more files than that, but it performs more efficiently than most 1-man 3rd party developers can do. keyword: multi threaded asynchronous loading. and that's on all 8 cores.

Edited August 3, 20241 yr by turbomax

6 hours ago, turbomax said:

FS 2 (in an APPLE II emulator) loads even faster than x-plane 12.

no word not allowed... did you expect loading 64KB max, and on an emulator that pretty much does it instantly, would be slower..?

 

some ppl...

Since we are talking load times: mine is 10:22, I can not only get a cup of coffee, I can drink it too and then fetch me another one.
Official folder: 570 GB
Community folder: 1.27 TB

54.1 GB in Community Folder.  3 min 45 sec. to load.  Then it take that much time or longer to load the flight.

Coffee time.

Roy

The two add-ons that add minutes to load times for me are AI Traffic & GSX Pro.

Without the above load time to the menu is about 2 minutes.

With the FSLTL fleet enabled it jumps to 3 and a half minutes.

When I load with GSX Pro, it's about 6 minutes.

I use the add-on linker to speed up load & to disable what I do not need for a flight. When I need to load everything, I do some flight planning while the sim is loading. So it's not that BIG of a deal. I'm more discouraged by AI airline traffic flying over me on final. 😀

It DOES load considerably quicker than driving to the airstrip, doing a walk around and starting that group share plane that nobody could be bothered to service. 😏

So you know, a sim flight is an event not a quick angry birds game so loading is the perfect time to read a few pages of a random wna manual 📖😎

12 hours ago, willy647 said:

I have 25 GB in my community folder. My not so new PC takes about 2 min to bring up the MSFS selection screen.

6 hours ago, Daube said:

Concerning the loading times, please keep in mind that there exist a bug/incompatibility in MSFS with some sceneries which will cause a very long loading time. It doesn't depend on how many addons you have, it just depends on how many addons suffer from that bug.

The only example I have in mind is the freeware scenery for Lake Hood in Anchorage Talkeetna PAKT, which alone made my loading time jump from 1:30 minutes to 6 minutes. The author even explains it in the description of the addon in the .to website. It's the only example I know but I suppose there are other sceneries suffering from the same bug.

Talkeetna is PATK. Ketchikan is PAKT. I'm not sure which you have.

1 hour ago, orchestra_nl said:

mine is 10:22, I can not only get a cup of coffee, I can drink it too and then fetch me another one.

ooooh what a lucky man, he was.

 

"mine is 10:22"

I suggest exchanging your hard disk ?  for an SSD or NVMe, that would cut your loading time in half or less. but then you wouldn't make it even to the first cup of coffee. priorities.

 

Edited August 3, 20241 yr by turbomax

I have Orbx PAKT and PATK by Northern Sky (sold on Orbx). I don't see that they slow down loading.

382 GB Community

769 GB  Official

7:30 minutes to load MSFS.