Loading times after Windows Update

[speedkill08]

Since the update to version 2004 the loading times have increased significantly. Before, loading a level needed max. 5 seconds. Now it needs up to 30.

Other games seem not to be affected.

Can anyone else confirm this?

[Vℓα∂y]

Sure, I just booted up my game, went in offline picked a mission and it loaded in yeah about 5seconds.

This isn't really talked about much but I known for long time now that EDF4 and EDF5 has an issue where since both games releases, they have an issue where load time increases the more stages you play. I estimate the increase is about 0.5 seconds each time you load up mission, not restart but going into lobby and loading it up from there. So play through like 30 missions in one play session and your gonna see quite a jump. Play through whole game in one session and your gonna be in annoying wait times, so suggestion is just to restart game if it gets too bad for you.

As far as I'm concern I am on latest version of windows, I simply cannot update anymore so I don't know what else to say if problem isn't what I just described above.

Edit: Well sometimes when you playing multiplayer with other people it can get long there too, again it come from above issue or connectivity can make it long, just from my experiences when playing with certain people.

[speedkill08]

The problem is that the long loading times occur immediately after starting the game (since the windows update).

[Vℓα∂y]

Originally posted by speedkill08:

The problem is that the long loading times occur immediately after starting the game (since the windows update).

You know what I'm still on 1909, so I have a question did you download 2004 manually or something because it doesn't give me the option to download 2004 yet from updates? So yeah you might be right that 2004 is causing issues like longer load times, hopefully someone else who has update can confirm that.

Wouldn't be first time a windows update screwed with EDF, I still remember the other time it was causing mouse sensitivity issues but that eventually got fixed in a future update.

[speedkill08]

For the update I used the media creation tool from Microsoft.

For your information: The game is installed on a SSD like some other titles. The loading times of the others are unchanged as said before.

Strange behavior. Maybe Microsoft doesn't like EDF. :D

[majisto]

Ok, wow, I am having the same issue. 6700K, 850 Pro SSD. It's not my hardware for sure. I wonder if the anti-virus is somehow affecting it? I'm using Windows Defender. Load times are 30 seconds except for caves, and the loading screen stutters. Game plays just fine.

[TransparentBlue]

It seems to do that and also add some pretty noticeable texture pop-in

[Bob]

Curse of console ports.

Over time, as operating systems get updates or simply move on to a new version altogether, games lose compatibility.

It isn't up to windows to keep things compatible, it is up to the developers to do it. They aren't going to come back and update this game again, because they feel it isn't worth their time.

[Gipsy Dragon]

Was this ever narrowed down to anything? Both my friend and I are getting 30+ second load times now and it's getting annoying. I see other games complaining of the same thing on forums, but no one has identified what to do or disable to fix it.

[TransparentBlue]

Just something in update 2004,
I've tried a bunch of things and didn't get it to behave any different for loadtimes, only downgrading ever changed anything
I haven't tried digging around with the compatibility toolkit because I'm not exactly proficient with it so it's most likely a waste of time for me to bother trying it.

[Kharn]

Yep, my buddy and I noticed the same thing just recently load times suddenly increased by a ton! Hope a fix becomes available.

[Honorable_D]

I also want to say that is also seems to be loading a lot slower recently...

[Maresciallo Dirigente]

They will never ever fix this. Only if you pay again and again the ticket's price...

[Honorable_D]

It actually seemed to start for me when I upgraded my video card from a 980 TI to a RTX 3090. Don't think any Windows update had anything to do with it.

[TransparentBlue]

Originally posted by Honorable_D:

It actually seemed to start for me when I upgraded my video card from a 980 TI to a RTX 3090. Don't think any Windows update had anything to do with it.

Could be that this is a thing exclusive to modern Nvidia GPU + update 2004?
I had a 1070 when I got that issue and haven't tried since.

[Kharn]

My gfx hasn't changed since it built my compy 4 years ago. Either an Nvidia driver update borked it or a Windows update did.