Long start times from desktop to main menu

[Simicro]

Hi all,

I'm retuning after a long absence... I'm running of fresh install of DCS. All is fine and I get a some fluid flights... except the loading time at start to get to the home screen knowing that I've set the program to bypass the Launcher.

Start from desktop: 00 sec
Login screen : 40 sec
Nvidia ad creen: 42 sec
DCS splash screen: 42 sec
DCS home screen: 76 sec

My PC: i7-14700KF, 32 Gb DDR5, 1.8 Tb SSD, RTX 4070Ti Super 16 Gb, Windows 11

I attach the log.

I read the forum and already tried:
- Full repair of DCS through the Launcher
- Excluded \Program Files\Eagle Dynamics in my virus scanner settings (Win 11 default anti-virus)
- Excluded \Saved Games\DCS\
- Deleted \Saved Games\DCS\ 
- Preload radius set to 50 000 instead of 150 000 (even if you see 150 000 in the current log)
- Disabled completely antivirus

... to no avail.

dcs.log

Edited 7 hours ago by Simicro

[Akula]

Disable hyper threading and try it again. 
 

ED broke hyperthreading support (again) a few updates ago. 

[silverdevil]

7 hours ago, Simicro said:

... to no avail.

also. DCS is arguably much slower when being scanned by AV software. if you are comfortable, you can add exceptions of DCS folders to the AV software.

[Simicro]

1 hour ago, Akula said:

Disable hyper threading and try it again. 
 

ED broke hyperthreading support (again) a few updates ago. 

 

Thanks, much appreciated. I'm not very knowledgeable or confident with the BIOS and I don't want to break something, especially that my other sims run flawlessly. So I will think about it. Do you have other suggestions?

4 minutes ago, silverdevil said:

also. DCS is arguably much slower when being scanned by AV software. if you are comfortable, you can add exceptions of DCS folders to the AV software.

 

 

Sure, as I said I excluded already the main DCS folder as well as Saved games. And I do not use any addon or software related to DCS and triggered by DCS.