I can be up and on the start page in about a minute on Xbox X, that’s without resume. The PC on the other hand takes almost 4 minutes. Longer than 2020. Granted my PC is only an I5 9300f. But still. 2020 will load in 3 minutes. Where’s the thin client?
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On PC 2024 takes me about 1:40, right where the cirrus vip video starts
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“thin client” has nothing to so with loading speed. It is a smaller install size. and FS24 is very small initially.
I load up on my PC 1min 40s.
Most of the load time is spent doing something looking at every package you have installed or available to stream. In 2020 this was specifically the packages you had locally downloaded from the Marketplace or locally installed into the community folder; in 2024 this includes every Marketplace purchase ever plus everything in your community folder.
If you have purchased Marketplace packages, or installed community packages, on the PC that aren’t also available on the Xbox, then loading will be significantly slowed down on the PC versus someone with a fresh account on the same PC.
We’ll see whether or not the ability to turn off packages helps with this if we ever get it as promised. 
There’s nothing in the community folders. Same account so same marketplace packages. Just getting the point where it says activating packages takes longer on a PC. Not sure why.
I do not believe that MS has to verify all your packages in the cloud, except the first time you log on, or the next time that you change something in those packages in the cloud. Otherwise it just reads your username, links it to your own private folder containing packages in the clouds, and reads a flag that says if this folder of packages has changed.
Logging onto 2024 is therefore much faster than logging onto 2020. When logging onto 2020, MS has to look inside the files on your computer, but MS does not know if any changes have been made since your last loggin. So it verifies every package asset which takes time.
All the above are my guessing about the actual situation.
In my case, logging onto 2020 takes 5 minutes and a half to get to the map page. 2024 takes 2 and half minutes to get to the map page. I have the aviators edition of 2024.
After clicking on FLY NOW, 2024 is at least 3 times faster than 2020. Always.
HI 
I have no gold information, but based on the question and my experience : the way XBox and Windows work are different. On Windows, you literraly got dozen of services and tools running in the background; not only what you can see, but also services that you don’t see.
For example, I’m pretty sure I’d find a service running in background to update your browser; or your video drivers. To make all of this collaborate “at the same time”, your operating system (Windows) has to give the flag to every program, and it happens a lot of time, each every second. You may think that MSFS is loading and can work for a full 90 seconds straight; the reality is that : out of the 90 seconds, MSFS will actually work for 30 seconds. The 60 other seconds is made of billion of “micro-pause” of MSFS waiting for the right to access your CPU (it’s a very simplified description but still accurate for the explanation).
On xbox, many of the background services are not present, and the run time of the operating system can be fine-tuned by the creator of the console (Microsoft) to be very very efficient, because the list of programs that can be ran on your console is a very small list (compared to the million-program-list of possibilities on a personal computer).
That’s why the user experience of gaming will always be different on a console-made-for-gaming than on a PC. PC are general purpose machines.
A second theory would be that, on the hardware side, your computer is less good (or less specialized) than the XBox hardware (which, to my memory, is pretty good). For example, the initial phase of the game is made of loading many file (Gigbytes of files) from the hard disk to the RAM. The better are your hardware pieces (cheap RAM is a mess), and the more “compatible” between them they are (CPU vs Disk vs Ram & Motherboard, including cables…), the better.
Also, as all XBox in the world are more or less the same, Asobo / Microsoft can make fine-tuned adjustments of their game on XBox for this precise hardware; which they can’t do on computers because the hardware part is never sure and never stable (think: AMD vs NVidia vs Intel vs Logitech vs …).
It’s not the answer, but in my mind, these options are sufficient to explain a large difference.
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On PC I get 25 seconds of loading the game, then another 30 seconds with a black sreeen with a circle, another 20 seconds going through the Asobo and Microsoft screens until I get to the activating packages screen which then takes another 2:45. Total time to start screen on my PC…4:15.
On Xbox X, 20 seconds to go through the MS, ASobo screens to get to the activating packages screen. The 37 seconds to get to the Start screen. Total time: 57 seconds.
FS 2020 on PC…3:15
PC here.
Generally under 2:00 to get to the World Map.
I have the -fastlaunch option enabled, so I skip the early splash screens.
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How do you edit that for 2024? I’m reinstalling it now to see if that helps
Edit: Never mind, found it
I searched and found flightsimulator2024.exe
I put a shortcut on the desktop and modified the Properties.
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Hey if it’s not a too much hassle, can you copy and past the whole lines of what’s in Target and Start in:
I can’t get it from that screenshot.
Unfortunately, Windows doesn’t let you resize that ‘window.’
Just search for flightsimulator2024.exe
Mine is in a custom location that might be different than on your system.
ETA: I’ll copy/paste for you in a minute.
ETA: I added it to the screenshot I posted above.
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Thank so much. Anything that speeds it up.
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