This is not a rant or complaint, this is a genuine question.
It takes me a good 15 minutes to get to the main menu every time I start the game. Most of the time my internet connection is downloading at full speed. If you need that much data to just load the main menu, is there ANY way to save those gigabytes and avoid loading them every time? This is so annoying and it seems so unnecessary.
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What is Streaming & How Does It Work? The Technology Explained
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Also this one.. Streaming media - Wikipedia
If you are waiting 15 minutes to get to the main screen every time, you are having issues between you and the MSFS servers. Could be nothing more than a bad route if you feel your internet connection is good.
My connection is 40 Mbit/s and it’s going at full throttle for most of the loading time.
My question is WHY. Since it’s loading me into the main menu, it doesn’t depend on where in the world I will be flying. So the only explanation is that it’s downloading the same thing every time I start the game. I just want to confirm that that is indeed what’s happening.
It’s not just loading you into the main menu. It is also verifying files and updating as needed as the sim is booting up. It is not downloading the same files everytime. As I said before, if it takes you 15 minutes to get to the main screen every time…you have an issue.
I don’t know what is downloaded when you start the game, but I can say that it takes my system a PC on a 100 Mb/sec download speed about 1 minute 30 seconds.
(Currently, I’m testing the latest beta release and this speed is typical of my start-up speed all the time.)
I must agree with BoboSkypark, that if it takes you 15 minutes to get to the main screen every time…you have an [internet connection) issue. Sorry, I can’t give any further advice.
Maybe when starting it could scan the drive locations and compare the sizes, then if a discrepancy is detected it could redo the download.
Hmm, maybe it is on my end. Any ideas what the issue might be?
First test should be with an empty community folder. That definitely can impact load times. Although 15 mins is excessive regardless.
Try deleting your rolling cache and set it to 64 GB if possible. Maybe this will change something
And it is certainly possible to play with slow Internet. I tried it with 20 Mbits and it works but everything is really slow.
Have you installed the sim in the default path or in one of your own choice? If so, I recommend deleting the sim completely and reinstalling it in the default path. It looks as if the sim cannot find its own installation, so to speak, and therefore thinks it has to reinstall components.
Doesn’t take me 15 mins, but it’s not really much quicker than FS2020 took, and that was with a lot of installed add ons in the Community folder. Wasn’t one of the main justifications for the increased streaming better loading times?
Launching a flight also takes a while. While in some cases it doesn’t necessarily take longer than 2020,.the absence of a loading bar makes it really annoying.
What I find most frustrating is seeing the cockpit load in bit by but over many seconds. In a plane I’ve already flow twice that session. It’s re-downloading COCKPITS, really? Why?
And the clarity of cockpits seemed better in 2020 too. So many steps backwards.
With my internet connection (50MBit/s) it takes less than two minutes from start to main menu. I didn’t notice any reload delays during runtime or flytime.
I have a loading bar at the bottom of my screen. Everyone should see it.
If you are running in full screen and not seeing the loading bar then something’s wrong with your installation.
Really? When launching a flight? Or do you mean the initial game load? Obviously I have a bar there.
Pretty sure I just have the whirly circle on the bottom right. While the screen shows the “map”. I can check again though. Screen settings are definitely as they should be.
No, game does not download everything again during game launch nor deletes content after you quit. Data is stored at the rolling cache until its size allows that. It takes so much time because it still needs to read the data and process all content, no matter the data source (server or local files). I did a streaming test some days ago and it shows the following:
Details about streaming test here:
Cheers
Sorry I misunderstood. I only have the spinning circle when loading a flight.
Right. In 2020 there’s also a bar when loading a flight. Quote helpful when trying to decide whether it’s crashed or otherwise hanging.
OK, I think I found a solution to my issue. I deleted MSFS, waited two months for SU2, and then did a clean install. The first time it once again took 10 minutes to load, but subsequently it loads to main menu in about 3 minutes, I can live with that.