Simviation Forum - Long boot times

Jan 11^th, 2012 at 4:22pm

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Hi All,

How long does it take for your FS9 install to get to the main selection screen? I realize I have 360+ entries in my scenery.cfg and have probably 150 aircraft (most are AI), but should it take 3-5 minutes for to boot? Im running Win 7 Extreme edition and I have a sata 6 drive running the whole thing, so is that too long to wait?

Thanks,
Sean

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Reply #1 - Jan 11^th, 2012 at 5:05pm

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On my win7 premiumn install, i have 38 scenery entries and 48 aircraft, it takes roughly 25 sec to load so i'd guess yours is due to the amount of files that are being checked.

Not sure about my xp install which i know has more but it's also a slower system

Steve

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Reply #2 - Jan 11^th, 2012 at 5:49pm

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I wonder if moving to an SSD would help?

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Reply #3 - Jan 11^th, 2012 at 7:12pm

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Do you really need 150+ aircraft on your Hangar?.... Shocked

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I mostly use around 1/2 doz or-so aircraft regularly, the rest are tucked away in a separate folder, as and when required.
Makes my preferred craft quicker to load, and quicker to find!

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Reply #4 - Jan 11^th, 2012 at 7:38pm

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Fozzer wrote on Jan 11^th, 2012 at 7:12pm:

Do you really need 150+ aircraft on your Hangar?.... Shocked

...!

I mostly use around 1/2 doz or-so aircraft regularly, the rest are tucked away in a separate folder, as and when required.
Makes my preferred craft quicker to load, and quicker to find!

Paul....

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In his defense Paul, some of us suffer from ADOP (Attention Deficit-ooo Planes) Cheesy

They all need to be flown NOW!!! Grin

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Reply #5 - Jan 11^th, 2012 at 7:48pm

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wahubna wrote on Jan 11^th, 2012 at 7:38pm:

Fozzer wrote on Jan 11^th, 2012 at 7:12pm:

Do you really need 150+ aircraft on your Hangar?.... Shocked

...!

I mostly use around 1/2 doz or-so aircraft regularly, the rest are tucked away in a separate folder, as and when required.
Makes my preferred craft quicker to load, and quicker to find!

Paul....

...!

In his defense Paul, some of us suffer from ADOP (Attention Deficit-ooo Planes) Cheesy

They all need to be flown NOW!!! Grin

I know right Cheesy

. It's worse for me
1. Start up fsx,
2. Go shower,
3. Load planes,
4. go eat supper or do something else.
5. Look at plane for 5 minutes and come to the conclusion that none of them are worth flying and quit Tongue

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6. Remember that I just downloaded that new sr-71 and slap myself
7.(step 1--4)
But seriously, I have a folder called Standby in my directory where I download the planes to and the ones I dont fly permenently, I put them there for the future.
It can come in handy Cool

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Reply #6 - Jan 11^th, 2012 at 8:49pm

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I've never had boot times for FS9 or FSX below two minutes, even with fresh installs, and that's on a system that was absolute top of the commercially available line three or four years ago and is now somewheres about mid range for performance computers. Since I've switched to Windows 7, it's load times have gone down considerably, so, apparently more RAM per program helps, but its still around three minutes for a hundred or so aircraft.

I'd recommend moving planes that you don't fly much, or even all the planes you don't plan to fly in a game session to a separate folder, since they seem to be the primary culprits for load time.

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Reply #7 - Jan 12^th, 2012 at 11:16am

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OK, so I need to cull the litter so to speak. How do I decide? I mean I understand the 15 or so airplanes I fly all the time, but what about the AI stuff? Also does it help to remove variants within aircraft or they all seen as one aircraft to the system?

Thanks,
Sean

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Reply #8 - Jan 12^th, 2012 at 3:43pm

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Sean
I have 234 AC files (including 39 AI's). I'm running XP Pro SP3 & my load time is 60 secs. However, I only have 6 extra files in my addon scenery file. We've had this discussion here before. I tried to find the last time we did, I think it was with Fozzer. I keep all my Add On scenery in a separate folder I call FS9 scenery. When loading scenery in FS it automatically selects Addon Scenery file. At that point you backup & select your scenery folder & add from there. This way you are not loading your 360 scenery files at boot up & FS accesses then only when they are needed. This method also keeps memory usage down which enhances your FS performance. Wink

Dave

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