What is going on with the start up time with FS2020. It seems to be getting slower every time I start. It’s just taken 10 mins. Before the last update it took 3! Nothing has been added or changed on my PC. Very annoying.
Server load? Network load? that nasty trojan I planted on your machine <‘jk’>…
Try resetting your cable modem / router / machine and see if it gets better…
I suspect the Azure servers are busy today, but 10 minutes is the same time it took FS2 on a Commodore 64 to load.
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Yeah its been slow as dog snot today for me here as well. To bad it relies so much on network connectivity to perform…Be nice if the Bing Maps part of it could be stored local Im sure it would make a world of difference…
Loaded nominally (about a 3-4 minute startup) and I’m 20 minutes into a flight right now. It might be your community folder.
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It can - that’s the cache settings. Still have to download it once, though.
Have a look here perhaps, it might help.
takes 10mins X 3 for me. Twice loads to end of blue load bar then hangs (no ‘not responding’ message, just an expensive wallpaper). Third time it works. So 30 minutes to load in all. No problem until the Nordics got a look in 
Still, gives me a bit of time to make a coffee, cook a burger and have a pee 
The cache is great for a couple of things.
- Flying in the exact same tiny area.
- Excessive ssd wear
There is really no point to either type of cache if you fly randomly around the world map.
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The tiny area will depend on cache size - with a big cache it could be a big area and less churn.
If all you do is fly random flights and don’t refly any areas, there isn’t much or any benefit to cache and instead might want to just disable it. A big cache will reduce that effect, though. It’s a balance between bandwidth, how much data you want/have to download, disk space, and SSD wear though SSDs wear level.
It’s not rocket science.
Mine takes nearly 5 minutes to load. Only one and a half minutes if I empty the community folder.
I have a lot of libraries in my community folder plus ship traffic and all my uk scenery. If i fly antwhere else, i swap my uk scenery out for the scenery of the country i am flying in.
Photo scenery is the worst for increasing your loading times
I have no cache, because for me (1) does not apply. I fly everywhere. But how do you know (2) ? maybe I interpret (2) wong and you’re saying “great for ssd wear” ?
I’m not sure that without cache, downloaded material is first stored on file, before it reaches the GPU… If that is the case, SSD owners should put a cache. But when not, the opposite would be true ! When you use cache on SSD, it will cause a write (updating the SSD) when flying forward outside your “tiny area”… and people using SSD should not put a cache…
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