What are your load times

[Gorgeous_Joe]

Specifically your load times into battle from campaign map and from battle map back to campaign map.

I ask because i was running the game using an SSD which was a few years old and fairly cheap so I thought i'd buy a new PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD and see how my load times improve.

My load times from campaign into battle are around 33 seconds.
My load times from battle to campaign are around 1 minute 33 seconds.

I've tried min/max settings on graphics and with the new SSD seemingly makes no difference.

With the old SSD on low settings the load times were the same as what i'm getting with the new SSD which had me questioning is there just a minimum load time regardless of how good your hardware is so i thought i'd ask and see what you folks are getting.

I read that for some it can take ten minutes but for most its 2-3 minutes, this doesn't specify if it's battle or campaign loads though, i assume it would be for campaign loads though.

Yes i know some people will just troll and say they load in around ten seconds and everyone's hardware in their rig is different but i'm just looking for the mean average and if there does seem to be a minimum load time of around a minute and half then I shan't waste my time tinkering.

Thanks

[dulany67]

What mobo?

[Gorgeous_Joe]

Originally posted by dulany67:

What mobo?

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I'm just looking for a mean average, I know hardware specs will give different results and not asking people to list them so don't worry about the specs.

[I LIVE AGAIN]

they are fast and I am using over 12 gb of textures

[Many-Named]

Originally posted by Gorgeous_Joe:

Specifically your load times into battle from campaign map and from battle map back to campaign map.

I ask because i was running the game using an SSD which was a few years old and fairly cheap so I thought i'd buy a new PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD and see how my load times improve.

My load times from campaign into battle are around 33 seconds.
My load times from battle to campaign are around 1 minute 33 seconds.

I've tried min/max settings on graphics and with the new SSD seemingly makes no difference.

With the old SSD on low settings the load times were the same as what i'm getting with the new SSD which had me questioning is there just a minimum load time regardless of how good your hardware is so i thought i'd ask and see what you folks are getting.

I read that for some it can take ten minutes but for most its 2-3 minutes, this doesn't specify if it's battle or campaign loads though, i assume it would be for campaign loads though.

Yes i know some people will just troll and say they load in around ten seconds and everyone's hardware in their rig is different but i'm just looking for the mean average and if there does seem to be a minimum load time of around a minute and half then I shan't waste my time tinkering.

Thanks

Ofc they make no difference, you bought into the ''New ssd generation'' hype and now you're finding out that hype sells but doesn't always deliver. I'd say it's a valuable lesson.

[Zeek]

It's about 35 seconds for me with my current settings.

I actually timed this on my PC a few weeks ago, because I was suddenly having HORRENDOUS load times when going to the campaign map.

I found that I was using a mod that was adding about 33 seconds to the load time.

Also I learned that Texture Settings greatly affect load times, at least for me and my aging PC.

[dot]

Depends, but ye i will say around 30-40 secs. My hardware is oldie, i7 6700k and 16gb ram but ye using an ssd.
But i cannot say entirely accurate or reliable given that I usually have something in the background that I alt-tab during loads, usually a series or youtube.

[Weissrolf]

Texture quality affects load times twice. Once for fetching larger textures from storage (especially HDD). And then moving that over to GPU VRAM, which becomes especially problematic if you lack VRAM capacity.

Other than that TW is notoriously slow when it comes to allocating system memory for loading the data into first and also seems to decompress the data out of the huge archive files using only a single CPU core/thread.

[Rager_Beater]

Originally posted by Many-Named:

Originally posted by Gorgeous_Joe:

Specifically your load times into battle from campaign map and from battle map back to campaign map.

I ask because i was running the game using an SSD which was a few years old and fairly cheap so I thought i'd buy a new PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD and see how my load times improve.

My load times from campaign into battle are around 33 seconds.
My load times from battle to campaign are around 1 minute 33 seconds.

I've tried min/max settings on graphics and with the new SSD seemingly makes no difference.

With the old SSD on low settings the load times were the same as what i'm getting with the new SSD which had me questioning is there just a minimum load time regardless of how good your hardware is so i thought i'd ask and see what you folks are getting.

I read that for some it can take ten minutes but for most its 2-3 minutes, this doesn't specify if it's battle or campaign loads though, i assume it would be for campaign loads though.

Yes i know some people will just troll and say they load in around ten seconds and everyone's hardware in their rig is different but i'm just looking for the mean average and if there does seem to be a minimum load time of around a minute and half then I shan't waste my time tinkering.

Thanks

Ofc they make no difference, you bought into the ''New ssd generation'' hype and now you're finding out that hype sells but doesn't always deliver. I'd say it's a valuable lesson.

Ofc they make a difference, have you seen the read/write speeds of M2s compared to SSDs hooked up with SATA cables??? they make a HUGE difference. the load times of wh3 isnt because the M2 drive isnt more performant, it depends on your mobo, but mostly on your RAM and CPU. GFX cards also but if they cause a slowdown in load times just lower your graphics settings. if OP has AMD adrenaline software you can usually see where you bottleneck is.

[Red Shift]

40 seconds to load up an end-game campaign from the "continue campaign" option from the launcher (with no splash screens mod)

20 seconds to load up a battle
18 to get back to map afterwards

Thats with a WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe

When I first got it, like you, I was disappointed, as it appeared to have no effect on my load times over my old SSD.

I've since upgraded from a motherboard that supported my 6th gen chip to one that supports 12/14th and gives the above results.

[-Singularity-]

Starting game battle loading in takes 18 seconds. I loaded up an end game siege battle and it took 38 seconds. Loading from battle to campaign 23 seconds. This being times I just clocked.

[Mörkö]

Originally posted by Gorgeous_Joe:

I've tried min/max settings on graphics and with the new SSD seemingly makes no difference.

Sata SSD or NVME SSD makes little difference in loading times yes. When i wrote that sometime ago, plenty of super wise people have screeched

[SarmatII]

~25s, NVMe 5GB/s drive, my CPU is a Ryzen 5800X3D. Load times to & from battles are similar, I do not notice any difference between them.

I think the biggest problem with this game is load times are far too long. On PS5 games, loading most games at most is like 5s, with many of them 1-2s. PC seems bottlenecked badly somewhere.

[Ape-tier Buffoonery]

1:42 starting a new campaign
1:36 loading a turn 24 save
Battle time load was 21s, back to campaign ~25s (I forgot my phone for the first few seconds so may be off).

I can't be bothered to check what brand my SSD just know it was economical when I bought it like 4+ years ago, and I'm thankful I did, because I played all of TW Warhammer 1, and a ton of hours of Warhammer 2 with a HDD and they sometimes had almost 5 min load times for battles.

[Ryan Gosling]

mine takes a couple minutes

[TheAlmightyProo]

Never more than 30 seconds in game, usually around 15-20 into battles, a little less back to the campaign. The longest by far are starting the game but that'd be the way for most games.

Been using Samsung 990/980 Pro's for 3 years now in the desktop. Current specs are a 5800X, 32Gb DDR4 3600MHz and a 7900XTX @ mainly 3440x1440 and a little 4K.

For the laptop much the same times with the shipped OEM 980 Pro and a regular one. Specs are 6800H, 16Gb DDR5 4800MHz and a 3070ti @ 1440p. The big difference here is, of course, the lower average fps and that 8Gb VRAM cap (which is maxed out running this game at ultra nm others)

I do play the game modded, generally around 10-15 mods. A smaller number compared to many, but none so far have noticeably impacted performance or load times on either.

Sarmatll made a fair point re the PS5 loads. It is somewhat faster (mine has a 2Tb Corsair MP600 Pro LPX) but the PS5 has various optimisations not always afforded to PC's and games so it's not a straight comparison.