Loading Takes Forever after Clicking "FLY"

Bug Reporting Hub Install, Performance & Graphics
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My MSFS is a clean installation, without any mod/3rd party content.

After setting up my flight and click the “FLY” button, I entered the loading screen, where the first 2/3 of the blue bar loaded fairly quickly, but the last 1/3 took forever.

I turned off the online functionality from the settings and tried to load the same flight, the game loaded just fine. So I suspect the issue is related to downloading online scenery.

Once I turned the online functionality back on, and monitor the download speed in NetLimiter, the download speed during the loading screen turned out to be rediculously slow, at around 30KB/s. However, when I was installing the game and downloading the base packages, my download speed could reach around 30Mbps (which is still quite slow IMO but still faster than downloading the scenery).

I tried all the solutions in https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015761760-Slow-download-speed, none of them worked for me, including:

  • Disable autotunning level
  • Disable IPv6
  • Use NetLimiter

I also ran speed test on my PC. I’m in Canada and my ISP is Bell, my internet bandwidth is 1.5Gbps and I constantly get like 300Mbps in the speed test (which is why I think my download speed at 30Mbps was still very slow), so I don’t really think my ISP was the cause.

I’ve submitted a request on Zendesk, request number is #96140.

My PC specs shouldn’t be an issue:
AMD Ryzen 7 5800x
NVIDIA RTX3080
16GB RAM
Game is installed on 1TB SSD (SATA)

I could really need some help improving my loading speed. Now I’m unable to load the game normally due to this issue. Thanks.

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MSFS servers sometime degrade (or go down), try again if that was the case?

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disable dev mode :wink:

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Nah that didn’t work, but thanks

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one potential solution I can think of is to edit the host for the server I download the scenery from, but unfortunately I can’t find any useful info after googling… :confused:

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https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/the-game-is-stuck-on-the-loading-interface/366525
Try this article

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Non Unicode User Name in Windows?

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Man you hit it right on the nail - changing the non-unicode app language to English, my download issue is resolved. Thanks! :grinning:

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I do have non-unicode username, but @CSC8011’s solution worked for me

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Very happy to here that. I was quite puzzled when I saw your post, out of all my sims, MSFS is BY FAR THE QUICKEST to load a flight. I suspect some of that is internet dependant but its nice to be able to fly at different locations and have the sim load the flight pretty quickly.

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So was I, totally didn’t expect that the issue was caused by a unicode setting :joy:

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