What is taking so long to get the sim up and running ? The sim does not know where I want to fly or what aircraft I will choose. We can tell it is loading a considerable amount of program info but it just seems to drag on and on… Even the Any Key to Start seems out of place. That needs to go. Well, maybe I missed turning off something… The startup just seems too long. Give us a startup screen so we can start configuring our flight and load the last half of the program data in the background.
This is a very reasonable point. You have to wonder what needs to be done during that load when all we end up with are some menus. I’m sure it’s something that they will optimise.
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How long is the load taking, in your case? Time to fetch, or drink, a beer, as is the case for the x-plane flight sim?
Plenty long enough for me to get up, walk to the kitchen, walk back and grab that cold coffee cup, walk back to the kitchen, put cold coffee in microwave, push 30 second timer, wait 1/2 minute, get warm coffee, shut door, walk back to MSFS computer in spare bedroom… sit back and wait for it to finish loading… smile
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For me, its about 2 to 5 minutes I think for the launch screen. I am upgrading to an SSD soon (my PC is SSD for boot, but I dont have 200 GB plus for this game to run, so had to install it on the standard drive of the PC)
I think, this game is designed for SSD. and of course, MS will optimize this but, seeing how future consoles are all about SSD, we should get a move on and upgrade the drives to SSD.
Probably a combination of two. MS optimizing and us upgrading to SSD.
(I have typed SSD way too many times in this post 
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About a minute, a minute fifteen. it’s too long ? 
Hi JayLive510,
I agree with you concerning SSD’s … I have my boot on SSD and a NVMe 500gb drive for most of the MSFS. During the install it ask where to place the program and I told it on my NVMe drive so I think I have about the fastest I can get as far as drive access goes and yet the program startup still seems dreadfully slow… I suspect that in the near future they will optimize that. Have a great flying day and stay safe.
LOL! such a great post
Definitely agree with you. There is only so much the brute force approach (that is all of us, buying SSDs) will help.
The general state of the game is still very much late beta. I want to see, how better it will be, say, 6 months from now.
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2-5 minutes?! That is a very long time. Did you actually time it? I’d estimate my startup is around a minute.
Same to me…
Yes, definitely.
It has gotten to a point where I press play, then do some coding on my other computers, or do some cooking or house chore and return to actually play the game.
2 to 5 minutes (not including launch crashes and sometimes no reaction at all. I just have to wait 2 to 5 minutes, and then click play again)
The game is incredibly buggy and slow at launch.
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I guess that it is about time I actually “time” this thing… I just feel it is doing something that can be accomplished in the background while we figure out where to fly and what to fly with all those menus.
I’ll post when I have one timer test done…
So it’s random, after the message “press start”, I wait about 1 minute and MSFS is on the main menu.
Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB.
I just timed it, both my OS and game drives are Nvme. it was 1:15 to the press any key window and 2:55 to the main menu.
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I did a timed launch as well. 4 minutes (with two pauses. one for checking updates and one for press any key)
Windows is on SSD. game in on regular HDD.
That stinks. Is your computer around the min specs? When I first tried to install on a low spec machine, I got a message that I would get errors. Interestingly, it gave me the expectation that it would try to run but would have problems. I never succeeded in starting though. I then installed on a new, nearly ideal spec’d laptop and everything has been relatively flawless–from install to flying.
I am definitely on the lower end for this game.
Intel® Core™ i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz
16GB
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
I mainly use this for development work. but, now the pandemic has taken away the work part, so its now my gaming PC (mostly play on the xbox one and PS4)
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1:11 to ‘press any key’
1:50 to menu
3:01 total
That’s a lot longer than I thought! And it really makes me wonder what in the world is the point of the ‘press any key’ screen?! Just keep loading…
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Well here is the load time:
Click to Run Program
43 seconds to first black screen
1:03 ASOBO logo
1:28 Any Key
1:53 Checking for Update
2:18 ASXGS Plane Showing
4:05 Final Menu
Medium spec machine 3.5Ghtz, 32 gig mem, SSD and NVMe drives, GTX1050ti
Runs well around New York City at 22-30 FPS Live Weather
But, this slowness is during Loading the program not running the program. I notice the drive is not always active…there are times when drive access is not occurring. I guess the program is “Thinking”… ha
Anyway, it seems TOO SLOW