Heres a video of MSFS2024 starting up on my computer on day two of launch at around 4pm EST US. I speed up the video to 200% and there is a timer on my cellphone at the bottom of the screen. If this is on day two and load times could possibly be even faster as their servers get smoothed out, I will say I really like the new load time.  I get to the main screen in about 1min and 49 secs. Pause it while I decide where to start and then restart the timer which brings me to just over two minutes on the sims workload side of things.
 

 

The best part is how fast it is to leave a flight, go to the main menu, and start a new flight. No more multi-minute delays just to try a new plane. 

Lucky you.

I've yet to even get to the main menu let alone complete a flight.

4 minutes ago, Tom Wright said:

Lucky you.

I've yet to even get to the main menu let alone complete a flight.

UK? Try a VPN if you can, and go through the US. This seems to help; they must have fixed US/CA today and will likely work on the rest of the world soon.

6 minutes ago, Tom Wright said:

Lucky you.

I've yet to even get to the main menu let alone complete a flight.

Sadden to hear that from all fellow simmers. I'm on Starlink and using wifi for my connection. I'm certain it will all get worked out in a few days (hopefully sooner). I just wanted to share that it is a quicker load time than 2020 and has only improved for me since launch. With the timer going, one can base their times comparatively. 

30 minutes ago, Ident said:

really like the new load time

Some get it faster the other way around from cockpit to desktop

but glad you like it, me too. Loads much faster - once it does

I can get to the main menu but selecting a default aircraft and airport in free flight never loads.  I’ve watched that wheel spin for hours. 
 

Sure would like to know how people are getting it to work. 

Same load times for me, 1:45 to 1:50 from launch. Really nice improvement. 

Slower [email protected] nets me 2:30 to menu then about another 1:45 to get into the cockpit, so 5:15. SSD drive btw.

Of course the loadtimes are faster. You haven't clogged up the sim with add ons and especially AIG or FSTL AI models.

I bet you that once you do, you'll be back to 10 Minute loading times.

I'd go ape if I had a 10 minute load time.

27 minutes ago, Farlis said:

Of course the loadtimes are faster. You haven't clogged up the sim with add ons and especially AIG or FSTL AI models.

I bet you that once you do, you'll be back to 10 Minute loading times.

I'm comparing to a vanilla MSFS 2020 experience, not a fully loaded one. This is much, MUCH faster. Have you tried it (and has it worked properly for you yet)?

Also, the sim has native models that seem to be really good. Not all the liveries yet, though, but plenty of high quality models. Feels like AIG may have helped out - I recall the developer (Kai?) saying that he couldn't talk about what he did a few weeks ago.. maybe now that it's released, we can get an update

I was right about the loading times.

Just to test it, I installed all my MSFS sceneries for just Germany into the sim. That's about 130. Loading times are back to 10 minutes initial load. Activating packages takes forever.

So we all will be back to taking coffee breaks during initial load in no time.

Edited November 22, 20241 yr by Farlis