Kim Sibbritt Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Just finished flying around Australia & NZ enjoying the wonderfull scenery & airports. I've now installed PWN & all accompanying airport & found the load time has jumped from 5 minutes to 20 minutes. I went back to Australia & the load times went back down to 5 minutes. Are long load times normal in PWN ? Should I expect the same when I move on to the GB scenery ? When up & running everything is fine, frame rates are as expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Did you switch FTX Central to NA and hit Apply ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Sibbritt Posted November 3, 2013 Author Share Posted November 3, 2013 Hi Wolter, Yes did that . Everything applied correctly it just took a much longer time than loading Australia.I was just wondering if that was normal ? Kim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holger Sandmann Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Hi Kim, twenty minutes loading time seems way too long, at least for just our products. Is this the time from starting FSX to the initial screen or from setting up a flight to the sim loading it, or both? In my experience excessive loading times are typically tied to large amounts of aircraft (including AI) in the SimObjects folders or large photoreal areas. Cheers, Holger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Sibbritt Posted November 4, 2013 Author Share Posted November 4, 2013 Hi Holger, From the FSX free flight screen, to spawning at the chosen airport in PNW even one of the small country airports usually takes about 20 minutes,however the same path to an airport in AUS or NZ, even a busy one like Canberra with the surrounding City scenery only 5 minutes ? Once there no problems everything smooth & clean.Its got me stumped. Cheers...Kim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 other thing I can think of is a AV scanner that goes through every nick and cranny make sure that you main fsX folder and also the fsX.exe are excluded from your AV proggy for continuous scanning not knowing your setup makes it tad more challenging Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 Even five minutes is an excessively long load time, I don't have any AI aircraft installed and every one of my flights loads off an SSD in less than a minute. What is your FSX folder location? What sort of hard drive do you have? How much free disk space do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Sibbritt Posted November 5, 2013 Author Share Posted November 5, 2013 Hi John, I only use the SSD for the operating system as its only 250 GB.Everything else is on the HD [2.75 TB free space]. FSX is on the D drive [not the default location] I'm averaging 20-30 FPS,when up & running,so this is not a game breaker,just a bit annoying. Cheers...Kim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 Which anti virus program do you use Kim hit CTRL+Alt+Delete select Task Manager and tell me how many processes you have running there I assume you have W7 there as OS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Sibbritt Posted November 5, 2013 Author Share Posted November 5, 2013 Hi Wolter, I have 59 processes currently listed with CPU usage '0'. All are deactivated except the necessary ones when running FSX by the 'Razor Game Booster' programme. Yes I'm using W7 64 bit. Please excuse my ignorance but what is an AV Scanner ? Cheers...Kim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 AV scanner = Anti Virus Scanner or Anti Virus Program like Norton, Avast and countless others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Sibbritt Posted November 6, 2013 Author Share Posted November 6, 2013 Hi Wolter, My anti virus scanner is Malware,I run it weekly,it seems to do a good job picking up just about anything. On further investigation it seems the long load time is due to FSX hanging with the 'Not Responding' message in the task manager. But if I leave it alone eventually it does respond & start working. Seems the problem might be with the operating system & not with FSX ? Cheers...Kim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 starts indeed more and more to look like an OS related issue, maybe you can restore to a previous date where things where OK before this started to happen and take it from there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Sibbritt Posted November 7, 2013 Author Share Posted November 7, 2013 Hi Wolter, Any things worth a try. Cheers...Kim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 system file checker => http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833 with that you can check if those are OK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Sibbritt Posted November 12, 2013 Author Share Posted November 12, 2013 Hi Wolter, Thanks for that suggestion.I ran the SFC & it did find a couple of damaged files,but unfortunately it didn't fix the long load time. Cheers...Kim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dow Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Wow way too long! But I have been experiencing longer load times myself recently and have yet to find the reason. I did untick all the non AU scenery in FSX scenery manager and it sped up the load times a lot, but of course every time I apply a patch or install new scenery in FTX it reloads all the scenery areas. I run the W7 64 bit and FSX all off my 256GB HDD... which means that even at its slowest FSX loads up an ORBX scenery in no more than 3-5 minutes. I would expect it to possibly take 10+ minutes from a normal HDD. Have you checked the size of your FSX folder? Mine still fits into the 256GB SSD and I have every ORBX scenery product installed. It might be worth it, even if you have to run all your other program files from a D Drive... it works for me no problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mopperle Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Another solution for reducing loading times would be to defrag your disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Sibbritt Posted December 15, 2013 Author Share Posted December 15, 2013 Problem finally solved.My C drive had become overly full,not giving FSX enough room to do its start up stuff. Even though I have it assigned to the D drive I realised some folders automatically still assign to the C drive,cleared it out & now we're back to around 5 mins.load time. Thanks for all the advice. Cheers...Kim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spirit_66 Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Hi Kim, in the long run I would recommend to change to another SSD for FSX alone and you'll see a great improvement of the FSX loading time. I wouldn't go with your 5 mins loading time. I already get nervous with 1 minute. I also hope that you downsized your huge HDD to some neat partitions. Spirit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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