Every file used by MSFS is on a NVMe device and my internet connection is a 900+Mb/sec fiber of very high reliability

With an empty community folder the 2024 sim constantly needs 4' 40" to load and then another 1' 15" to go from Free Flight to Ready to Fly.  That is a total startup time of almost 6-minutes and a full minute longer than MSFS 2020 needs with a Community folder holding 25 addons.

Timings for 2024 are:

57" to get to 11% Activate Packages
1' 12" to get to 14% Activate Packages...and then nothing happens for the next 2-minutes there is very little disk or file activity and one CPU is at 90% with all the others at idle
3' 45" End activating 
4' 16" End loading sim objects (1161)
4' 40" End loading World data 

Are those timings about what one should expect?

 

Edited January 7, 20251 yr by TacomaSailor

There's something wrong there i am afraid. I'm on a AMD 7800x3d, MSI Tomahawk M/B, 65gb DDR5 6000mhz, Radeon 6800 GPU 12gb, and FTTP 1gb Broadband. Community folders got about 120gb loaded into it at the moment and it takes 4 mins exactly from initial start to the sim fully loaded .

By any chance is this installation you have the original from when the sim was launched, as i saw MS suggesting not long after if you were experiencing long launch times, some files wee corrupted during the server issues, and recommended reinstallation of the sim.

 

Edited January 7, 20251 yr by Simselli

Interesting. I haven't fired up my PC today but after reading this thought I'd give it a try.

Fired up PC, hit the 2024 icon; 

3mins 22sec to fully loaded.

Tried a second time, hit the 2024 icon;

2mins 51sec to fully loaded.

I wonder if the first, longer load time was due to the career update loading? I have a couple of airports, a Spitfire and the Kodiak in my community file atm.

This is with a i7 12700k, 32g of DDR5, 2TB Nvme and BT 60mb broadband. 

I don’t have the exact numbers any more but I am sub 4’ start to flying.

Sim startup to main menu: around 3 minutes and 15 seconds. From free flight menu to ready to fly: around 15 to 30 seconds. I only fly the Vision Jet though and often on small to medium airports.

EDIT: bigger difference is the install time of MAFS2024. It's installed in around 3 minutes. MSFS2020 took around 2 to 3 hours.

Edited January 7, 20251 yr by mistolip

Do you by any chance have your frame rate locked in Nvidia's Control Panel? After the third update, it was taking up to seven minutes to load for me, but once I disabled the locked frames, my loading time dropped down to two minutes. Also, make sure your system time is synched with internet time. My Community folder only contains the A2A Comanche.

Edited January 7, 20251 yr by Bones62

As already mentioned in other forums and posts - after moving the MSFS2024 back directly to the C:\ SSD hard drive (to the default folder), was also on an M2 SSD earlier (not now) - and after deactivating Nvidia Filter and FPS Limiter (at least until the main menu) I'm almost done under 3 min ! 150 Mbit cable
In addition, now, even on the non-streamed, i.e. installed ADDON airports, the stutters have suddenly stopped, even in the loading videos (except of course small ones when reloading), but not comparable to before!
So it can run as ‘promised’ after all - the only problem is, as with MSFS2020, that it is so sensitive to various system settings, configurations etc. and often results in completely different experiences with similar systems

I think the OP has something wrong also... My total time to flight is under 3 mins.

About 2 minutes to get to the World menu, and less than a minute to Ready to fly.

1 hour ago, TacomaSailor said:

Are those timings about what one should expect?

Given that you said you did some hardware monitoring during the start, and one cpu core got jacked to 90%...tells me that 2024's startup process does in part depend on your cpu hardware, maybe more than 2020's does.  A 9700K was at one time a fine cpu, but now is a bit behind the curve.   That may be one factor slowing it down for you.

For me 2024 loads faster than 2020.

Yea, I consistently launch to the Menu screen in 1:50 to 2:00 minutes. It then takes about 30 to 45 seconds from the time I selected my departure airport to being spawned in the sim. And it has been very consistent. Now, I have only 4 planes and about two dozen airport sceneries in my community folder. No other programs, no Active Sky, No GSX, nothing like that. I mention it because GSX seemed to add at least 2 if not 3 minutes to my launch time in 2020. 

Edited January 7, 20251 yr by Cognita

Would it not depend on how much data one has in the MSFS2024 Community file? 

How about the number of aircraft the user has to pre-load?

With a large number of apps, surely things will take longer to load?

Edited January 7, 20251 yr by Beagle12
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"With an empty community folder the 2024 sim constantly needs 4' 40" to load and then another 1' 15" to go from Free Flight to Ready to Fly. "

With an empty community folder in 2024, starting on day 2 of 2024 release, the sim takes 2" and 34" to load. Maximum. Every single time of dozens and dozens of flights. 2020 takes 5' 30".

Free Flight to Ready to fly takes  40 seconds (which is almost 3 times faster than 2020 still takes me).

The best thing for me about 2024 is how lightning fast things load compared to 2020. And how stable the scenery is, stuff doesn't pop in and out of view nearly as much as in 2020, as I fly around.

Yea agree with most people. Anywhere from 3- 5 min to go from the desktop right into a flight. usually closer to 4 min, sometimes a min longer. 
 

however I have had the odd occasion (maybe 5-6 times out of 50-60 or more launches) where it does in fact take like 8-12 min. Never longer 

54 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

I think the OP has something wrong also...

9700K

28 minutes ago, Beagle12 said:

Would it not depend on how much data one has in the MSFS2024 Community file? 

How about the number of aircraft the user has to pre-load?

With a large number of apps, surely things will take longer to load?

Empty Community - when I load my normal Community addons - the sim only takes 40-seconds longer