Reducing FSX "Fly now" load time.

[Olderndirt]

As the time from "Fly Now" to game opening inevitably increases, thought I'd ask what methods you're using to cut back on this. From what I've read, scenery is the biggest factor so I was thinking, since it can be done in game, would using only the scenery you plan to fly in and deactivating the rest do any good?

[Ian Warren]

Dave , with me all scenery is everything , the addons NZ only , the ones I'm working on , this cuts anything outside other than using the ORBX Global-X to cover the rest of the world , I think and found it not always the scenery but the amount of aircraft but also the weather adds to the TRICK & TREAT and slows the PC down .

[ZK-LGD]

QUOTE (Olderndirt @ Nov 10 2014,3:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

would using only the scenery you plan to fly in and deactivating the rest do any good?

Should be doing this anyway ... it's the primary culprit for VAS OoM messages. See here for a complete explanation.

[deeknow]

Yeah the way I manage this is I have a set of scenery.cfg files in the %programdata% folder that I swap in and out depending on where I want to fly.
Each file is for a specific region and only has scenery for that region, e.g. Pacific, Europe, MiddleEast, Asia, and each of them has a few overlapping areas.

[emfrat]

Yes, scenery takes a long time to load, as do aircraft and AI. You can build on Dean's method by having "hangar" files for regional aircraft paints, and swapping them in and out. I have always meant to set this up - I have about 30 repaints for the DG Dragon Rapide, and only fly a couple of them, so I should really delete the other texture sets and edit them out of the aircraft cfg. The same applies to lots of other planes. One day I will fix it, but in the meantime I just use the wait time to make sure there is plenty of coolant and nibblies in the fridge

[MichaelBasler]

There are even tools for swapping scenery automagically at startup. I use Simstarter

http://aviation.pero-online.de/wordpress/?page_id=105

It does not only allow scenery, but also Simulator settings management.

Kind regards, Michael