After upgrading my PC this summer I have installed DCS and A-10C ( a complete new buy as my precedent A-10C was a very early release and I preferres to have latest version to avoid problem ).
When I launch DCS it stay for 10 ( rarely ) to 14 ( often ) minutes with a black screen and windows seven loading cursor ( the little blu circle ).
Then when I launch a mission it stay in loading screen for 4 to 6 minutes.
Upgrading to the latest two versions 1.2.6 and 1.2.7 don't solve the problem.
Initially the problem was also present in the DCS World installation without A-10C and I have tried to disinstall it and then reinstall after cleaning the PC and registry windows. Also this don't solve the problem.
Consider that after the initial loading if I exit from DCS and then relaunch it, it start in 1-2 seconds and if I launch the mission it start in some seconds ( apparently more complex mission request more seconds and simply mission not however all start in less than a minute).
But at every Windows Seven restart all is forgotten and again it start in 10-14 minute and 6-4 minute for the mission. A total of 20 minute of wait :doh:
The only thing that seem to have some kind of effect is to launch the repair procedure before starting DCS ( Start/Eagle Dynamics/DCS world/repair DCS world ) and in this case DCS start in 3 to 5 minute, but launching the mission isn't influenced by this partial remedy and continue to start in 6-4 minute.
DCS worl is installed in a SSD hard disk ( AHCI enabled ).
My configuration is:
motherboard MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming
cpu Intel core I5-4570S ( Haswell)
hd 1 SSD OCZ vertex 3 120GB ( Windows Seven ultimate 64 bit )
hd 2 SAAT 1TB samsung (actually I don't remember the type ) with programs and some game in dedicated partition ( also FSX and X-plane 10 )
hd 3 SATA 2TB ( western digitalgreen) used like an archive ( video, photo,ecc )
The new SSD dedicated to flight simulation but for now only with DCS on it is a Samsung solid state disk 250GB Srie 840EVO
Ram Corsair XMS3 8GB DDR3 1600MHZ cl9
VGA Radeon HD6970 2GB
Audio Creative Soundblaster Z
A last thing rarely when I launch DCS it seems not to starting at all showing no HD activity and no black screen or something else, in this case I use ctrl+alt+canc to start task manager but when it appear soon DCS start ( with the long time waiting screen ) but if I don't launch task manager it sure don't start anyway ( I have tried to wait 20 minutes ).