Dune Load Screen

Devildog73

Devildog73

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I really enjoyed the almost real graphics of MSFS.
I enjoy the nicely done graphics add-ons since I have a PC which is strong enough to handle the superb graphics.
I DO NOT ENJOY waiting for 15-20 minutes for the DUNE load screens to give up and let me into the simulator.
I DO NOT ENJOY the convoluted, complicated keyboard commands to do anything during flights.
Microsoft really wasted their talents on this one.
I am going back to FSX until, or IF M$ decides to make MSFS an actual flight simulator and not a Star Wars Game!
I am going to experiment and see if I can assign FSX keyboard commands to replace MSFS keyboard commands.
Has anyone else done so?
If so, did it work okay?
Thanks for the rant time. I'm a 72 year old CFS2er and guess I do not like strange changes to fix that which does not need fixing.....
DD73
 
Do you need the complete list of MSFS 2020 keyboard commands? If So, PM me with your email and I'll send it to you.
 
Just out of curiosity, is there a way to bypass or shorten the DUNE load screens so I can actually get into the sim and marketplace?
My FSX with lots of aircraft, scenery, AI flights loads faster than MSFS with the stupid DUNE load screens! If I go ahead and give into their marketing and buy and install their DUNE Star Wars game, will the sim load faster?
 
Devildog73 said:
Just out of curiosity, is there a way to bypass or shorten the DUNE load screens so I can actually get into the sim and marketplace?
My FSX with lots of aircraft, scenery, AI flights loads faster than MSFS with the stupid DUNE load screens! If I go ahead and give into their marketing and buy and install their DUNE Star Wars game, will the sim load faster?
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Buying the Dune expansion is free. Also, it won't help your load times. The Dune screens will be replaced by whatever they release next (probably the new A320 coming with the next sim update in early May). The sim just takes a long time to load. To me, it's completely worth it and so much better than FSX that I couldn't imagine going back, but that's just me. Usually, I start the sim and then go do something for a few minutes. When I come back, the sim is ready, and I've checked something off my to-do list in the meantime.
I heard somewhere that they are trying to address the long load times, but who knows.
 
FWIW:
I bought the Parallel42 app Stripr. During startup it displays random airport overhead views (your choice of countries), gives you the ability to skip checking for updates, and lets you decide when to update.
I've seen some really obscure airports and have started flights from them. Haven't seen the same airport twice yet.
 
Addons Linker has a "launch simulator" click at the top, which can be configured to bypass startup screens. It's free on FS.to
 
jmbiii said:
FWIW:
I bought the Parallel42 app Stripr. During startup it displays random airport overhead views (your choice of countries), gives you the ability to skip checking for updates, and lets you decide when to update.
I've seen some really obscure airports and have started flights from them. Haven't seen the same airport twice yet.
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Just purchased Stripr. What a difference. No opening Asobo Blackshark and very nice view of local or large airfields in intro. A side effect is I was having problems loading certain aircraft. MSFS would hang when FLY was selected. I had to select a different aircraft and load the flight. Once there I could go back and change to the aircraft I wanted and all worked well. That problem seems to be gone. I highly recommend Stripr.
 
Devildog73 said:
Just out of curiosity, is there a way to bypass or shorten the DUNE load screens so I can actually get into the sim and marketplace?
My FSX with lots of aircraft, scenery, AI flights loads faster than MSFS with the stupid DUNE load screens! If I go ahead and give into their marketing and buy and install their DUNE Star Wars game, will the sim load faster?
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There is no Dune Star Wars game to buy, there is just some optional content you can get for free, which includes the aircraft visible in the screenshots, a few missions and some related scenery. Emphasis on "free" and "optional".
And honestly, going back to FSX sounds more painful to me than watching these images ;)

Now, when it comes to the loading times you are mentioning, there is definitely something wrong here, since the sim shouldn't take more than 2 or 3 minutes to reach the main menu. I would suggest the following things to speed up the launching time:
1- ensure your sim is installed on a SSD drive
2- ensure the sim main process and its folders are in the exclusion list of your antivirus (I use the default Windows Defender and it's quite easy to configure)
3- check if you can use the "-fastLaunch" option in the shortcut to launch the simulator. This automatically skips the videos at startup. I think there was some option in the sim settings to get rid of them as well, but I can't remember it anymore :/
 
I posted a link to this youtube tutorial before, but I'll post again, since it's one of the best recent tutorials I've seen on speeding
up MSFS load times:


Lots of interesting suggestions here, including how to set up and optimize Addon Linker.
 
Load times of 20 minutes or longer for MSFS are very common and not your fault.

Most of the tips in vids like the one above involve various forms of deleting content that you are not going to use. You can only do that if your style is to know how and where you want to fly before you launch the sim. And, if that's different from the last time you played it, you'll probably spend all of the loading time saved by going into Addon Linker and/or Content Manager and enabling/disabling stuff. And then, if you change your mind while in game and want to enjoy a region whose airports and POIs you deleted, tough luck.

If you don't know what you'll be doing when you launch the sim, none of these tips are much use. I use a ModManX, a different addon organizer functionally similar to Addon Linker, and keep a lot of stuff disabled, so I'm sure it saves me some loading time, but my loading times are still long. I find that the benefits of having most of the sim content available to me, without having to pre-decide what I will be doing and spend time switching aircraft and regions on and off before launch, is worth the long loading times.

Many of us don't use discovery flights, training modules, and landing challenges, but these are almost always small files that won't make much difference to your load times.

August
 
I keep my 6 string right behind my desk and run through some scales and picking exercises while it loads - 20 minutes sounds about right.
I almost never have a plan when I open MSFS - I usually use the loading and picking time to think about it.
After it has loaded I check the content mangler to see if there are any updates, check the marketplace for anything new or on sale, then check the data page of the GUI to see that just loading MSFS hasn't changed some setting or another..
Then I load a flight and wait about 2 minutes into it to realize the stutters and micro-hangs haven't magically gone away and just shut it down again
 
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The content of the loading screen has nothing to do with how long it takes to load MSFS, though.

If it was a Cessna 172 or Marilyn Monroe, it would still take forever.

Of all the Flight Sim things to be annoyed by, though…

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I never get 20 mins of load time. The most is maybe 5 mins at the most. I use Add on Linker to select what airplanes and scenery I want to load. No need to load a 100 Alaska sceneries if I won't be flying there.
 
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