Long time to load or start up

[DeadlyDoRight]

One thing I noticed is the long time it takes to start the game up. Hopefully that will be adressed in a future update.
Anybody else having the same problem?

[papasanto73]

yes i am, its crazy how the fast travel in game is blink of an eye fast!...and then BOOM!!! 5 MIN of load screen just to walk through a door....sooo messed up.SOOOOO MESSED UP DEVS!!!

[Iskar]

This got much better for me when I moved the user/documents folder, where the game stores the saves (and presumably other temporal app data), from my external hard drive to the SD card. You may have noticed that the game world is entirely persistent, so there are probably lots of data to store and move around on loading, which is much faster on an SD card.

[CyberGhost]

nah its instant for me

[Bandy]

Originally posted by Iskar:

...You may have noticed that the game world is entirely persistent, so there are probably lots of data to store and move around on loading, ...

If so (I haven't looked myself) then using cloud saves are likely very prone to corruption, just saying...

[Iskar]

I don't use cloud save usually.

The degree to which saves preserve the world state is very high, though. I have noticed that it includes the position and orientation of that one horse you find as well as dropped objects. Most adventure games I know just save basic information about the minor details and fill in the blanks by resetting stuff to some default state.

[Bandy]

Originally posted by Iskar:

I don't use cloud save usually. ...

And I do not as well.

On every game forum there is at least a few threads (over time) where the problem is due to cloud saving, either corruption, or user error, or m$ onedrive deciding it knows better... Might say I'm on a 'crusade' to tell players they can do a better job of managing their saves :D

[♕Gattsu♕]

Its instant for me as well.

[Ｄａｍｍｉｔ]

It doesn't take a long time. maybe its your hardware?

[Bandy]

Originally posted by Ｄａｍｍｉｔ:

It doesn't take a long time. maybe its your hardware?

Sounds like OP has a spinning HDD.

Yeah, don't understand steam posts complaining about this or that performance issue, but provide no hardware context and expect help. It's like on a scale of potatoes, where does your system fall?

[Hitman]

I have a 990 pro and I had to refund the game due to load time… the game is amazing and i loved it! but every time I try to attack an enemy who’s stronger and I fail/die, I end up waiting 5 mins loading before I can try again…

[I am Groot]

3 seconds tops for me...

[Bandy]

Originally posted by Hitman:

... I fail/die, I end up waiting 5 mins loading before I can try again…

990 Pro I assume is a SSD? How full is it? Is it a second drive just for games, or is it your C:\ with windows on it as well? Have you tried to defrag it in the past? Other processes running?

Someone posted saying a possible fix for multicore is to reduce the active cores, search the forum. I have 4 cores\8 threads but no problems.

[Hitman]

Originally posted by Bandy:

Originally posted by Hitman:

... I fail/die, I end up waiting 5 mins loading before I can try again…

990 Pro I assume is a SSD? How full is it? Is it a second drive just for games, or is it your C:\ with windows on it as well? Have you tried to defrag it in the past? Other processes running?

Someone posted saying a possible fix for multicore is to reduce the active cores, search the forum. I have 4 cores\8 threads but no problems.

Windows 11, it's on a 2tb drive with around 500gb free space, drive is only used for games.

I'm surprised some people say it loads in 3 seconds. that's what would get me to play the game again... . but waiting like 2-5 minutes every time I have to retry killing an enemy is too boring for me.. If someone has any suggestions please let me know

[Bandy]

The game just updated and I started it up. The initial start load was less than a minute, and game start was similarly less than a minute. It may feel longer but it is not.

OP you seem to have a system problem or incompatibility, look at the background processes your system is running. Disable steam overlay, disable all other overlays like MSI afterburner. As a troubleshooting step disable antivirus temporarily and see if that helps.

As mentioned, these are likely big save files, so turn off steam cloud and m$ onedrive may also be a problem, but not sure if TG is saving to user\docs folder that onedrive is backing up. Think outside the box, don't just blame the game.