When I start the FSX sim it can take ant where from 1 to 7 minutes to load. What is going on. I have an HP AMD X4 and have 8 gig of ram. Any ideas. Please help.
8 Answers
First, defrag!
You also may have too many aircraft, scenery etc that slow up the loading. If you can delete any add-ons do so.
To be honest, I would just stick to the defrag and be happy that FSX works and not touch anything else.

I have only downloaded 4 planes and one mission. I ran defrag and the program still opens very slow. ![]()
Do you have 7,200 or 5,400 rpm hard drives.
What video card do you have.

Its the hard drive.
Invest in a SSD (Solid State Drive) for FSX.
Yeah try not to download too much... It may seem like a great idea at the time but eventually you get like me and have over 60 gigs worth of FSX crap taking up valuable hd space, half of which I don't even fly or fly TO anymore.
My FSX doesn't run good, here are my specs:
Windows XP Professional 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 1.79Ghz (64bit)
114GB Hard Drive
1.02GB RAM (1022 MB)
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
I have DirectX 10
ZambiblasianOgre wrote:
My FSX doesn't run good, here are my specs:
Windows XP Professional 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 1.79Ghz (64bit)
114GB Hard Drive
1.02GB RAM (1022 MB)
NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
I have DirectX 10
Your problems are highlighted in bold...... 😎
Same problem with my Copy of FSX here are my species AMD Athlon II X2 250u processer 1.60 ghz
Installed memorey ram 3.00 gb and i am running windows 7 ultmate 64bit service pack 1 and i dont know why its running slow because when i got the game it ran fine but now it takes umm about 2 min too load ![]()
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