loading screen and races take a lot of time to load since last update

[Robertskin]

as the title says
anyone else having this problem?

[Goldoni]

yes, it's always been like this for me

[WakanMidnight]

Yep，and game crash. New bugs r updated

[Braveheart]

yeah, loading times are way longer than before the update

[DarkSwarm]

I was just looking for a topic about this.
I'm running the game from a fast m2 ssd, but since the last update the loading time for each race is way longer than before.
That and stutters in the moving background and in some menu's.
Loading car pictures in the Tunes and Market screens takes longer too.
I have a feeling it is caused because some new implemented anti cheat or some background checking or something.
I'm not but lowering graphical settings does not make a difference.
Hopefully the devs can fix it.

[Calvados]

I'm having the same problem

[Alienpunk]

Yepp, have the same probs

[kireta]

Inconsistent for me. Sometimes it loads normally, but few times took over a minute to load.

It's worth to notice, "normal" is still much longer than it used to be. For first few months, you'd only see loading cutscene (you know, stage and yelling) in MP, because in SP game would finish loading race before loading screen was in full view. Of course, PG didn't specify what "improvement" made loading times several times longer than they used to be.

[reverb]

Same, it loads much slower now and I also get many stutters through menu.

[not madattak]

The loading time when starting the game has gone up to 5-10 minutes each time now for me. Probably going to uninstall the game and try and move it to an SSD to see if it helps, as 10 minutes just to load into the game + getting through the menus + waiting for a lobby + loading for a race means it takes about 20 - 25 minutes just to get into the weekly Trials event, which is plain stupid.

[PTownBandit]

Same here, takes longer to start race and load various screens. I am also experiencing more crashes than I had before. I think I may have had 1 or 2 crashes in 50 hrs of gameplay and since the update I have probably crashed 5 times in less than 5 hours.

[S5yn3T]

Haven't crashed once (since im still running on 511.65 driver version that keeps this wreck of a game stable)

But ye, loading times and stutters in the mene have increased.
I wonder, do they ever test out their public builds in private before releasing it to the public?

[The 30 Percent Iron Chef]

Same

[Cpt.Ernst]

Same. i running with ssd but only if i enable rt on extreme the loading screen takes longer in races or taking Photo .Without rt its all normal loading times in races.

[not madattak]

This seems to be an issue beyond just drive speed. I moved the game to me SSD and it mostly sped the loading screens up, but occasionally a single race can take up to 5 minutes to load.

[MoonWalker]

Man, I was told pc gaming would be an improvement compared to my ps5. I’m used to loading times being a thing from the past. However wirh my ryzen 7, 5800, 3070, ssd and 32gb ram i’m waiting several minutes between races, loading screens etc. What a poor poor product from ms. Can I demand a refund? I’m not paying for a profuct that is making me wait longer than actually racing. Shame on you microsoft