FSX Loading Slow

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johnr4330 Trainee
Joined: Mar 11, 2011 Posts: 7
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Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:55 am

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.

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RadarMan Chief Captain
Joined: Aug 25, 2003 Posts: 17934 Location: U.S.A
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Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:12 am

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.

Radar

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johnr4330 Trainee
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Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:01 pm

I have only downloaded 4 planes and one mission. I ran defrag and the program still opens very slow. Crying or Very sad

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RadarMan Chief Captain
Joined: Aug 25, 2003 Posts: 17934 Location: U.S.A
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Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:00 pm

Do you have 7,200 or 5,400 rpm hard drives.

What video card do you have.

Radar

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Rodney Jacobs (GundamWZero) Captain
Joined: Dec 29, 2006 Posts: 525 Location: Ft. Bliss, Texas
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Wed Apr 06, 2011 12:12 am

Its the hard drive.

Invest in a SSD (Solid State Drive) for FSX.

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Drew B (belgeode) Chief Captain
Joined: Jun 22, 2007 Posts: 1140 Location: Pittsburgh PA
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Tue Apr 19, 2011 8:47 pm

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.

ZambiblasianOgre Guest
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Thu May 12, 2011 5:46 pm

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

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Rodney Jacobs (GundamWZero) Captain
Joined: Dec 29, 2006 Posts: 525 Location: Ft. Bliss, Texas
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Fri May 13, 2011 10:55 pm

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...... 😎

pilot663 Guest
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Sat Jul 30, 2011 3:19 pm

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 Surprised

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