Start up issues

[mjrhealth]

Skymax seems to cause a huge pause in xplane at start up, a few times xplane hasnt started. like this

0:05:57.847 I/ATC: Heading 0 6 0, vectors for the visual runway 30R, down to 4 thousand, 228 134.
0:06:00.174 G64: debug: MAXX: METAR dl complete: https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/cycles/08Z.TXT
0:06:00.174 G64: debug: MAXX: Writing METAR to: (G:/X-Plane 11 Beta/MAXX_METAR.rwx)
0:06:09.987 D/ATC: p=4 (N816NN): Fly Heading: 157
0:06:09.987 D/ATC: p=4 (N816NN): Maintain 3999ft
0:06:09.987 I/ATC: 737-800 6NN, Fly heading 1 5 0, vectors for the visual approach runway 30R, descend and maintain 4 thousand.
SkyMaxx Pro: Found new MAXX_METAR.rwx file of size 2889150
SkyMaxx Pro: Parsing METAR data
SkyMaxx Pro: METAR parsing took 130 ms.

Think thats with Skymax on always

 

[sundog]

I wouldn't call 130 milliseconds a huge pause! But if your cloud draw area setting is all the way up in SkyMaxx Pro, it can take a few seconds for it to initially populate the clouds.

If it's taking longer than that, it may indicate that you're tight on memory. Turning down the cloud draw area might help.

That said, most issues with long startup times are associated with Vulkan pre-compiling its shaders, which it needs to do whenever you change your graphics settings. Long startup pauses in 11.50 or even hangs are much more likely due to that, and not SkyMaxx Pro.