FSX Loading Time

[shawn67]

I have a fairly low-end system, but have got FSX to work "acceptably" on my system. Nothing anywhere near maxed, but good enough for me. The only real question I have is - is there any way to speed up the loading time of a flight. FS9 took about 5-10 seconds to load a flight, and FSX is taking "several" minutes......Or, is this just a normal function of FSX now? Just curious.

[xxmikexx]

Believe it or not, an alphanumeric sort of your files and folders will produce a dramatic improvement re this issue. The following program doesn't work for everybody but when it does, Ultimate Defrag is the tool of choice, supplemented by O&O Defrag or PerfectDisk for defragmenting the "master file table" and the paging file (which should be set to the maximum of 4095, by the way).

I wrote a FlightSim article on this subject last fall. Do a Google site search on "Mike's Musings" and you'll find it.

Mike McCarthy
fsOC Core Team
http://www.fsopencomponents.com
Also see the fsOC forum here on FlightSim.com