How to fix mod long load times?

[Peter Griffin]

Title says it all, I'm running an i7-6850k cpu, nvidia gtx1080 gpu, 32 gigs of ram and I have rome 2 on an SSD with plenty of extra space. I'm trying to run Radious, a couple graphic enhancers like HD water, and some extra unit mods like AUM. I started with around 40 mods loaded, but I've been lessening the amount as well as lowering my graphics, with no improvement. The game loads reasonably well with no mods, but I don't see a launch options button in the launch menu to change the game to Dx 11. Is there anything I'm doing wrong? Help would be really appreciated, thanks!

[Zef]

Radius and a water mod alone hardly cause any performance cost.disable other mods

[Peter Griffin]

Originally posted by Zef:

Radius and a water mod alone hardly cause any performance cost.disable other mods

Ill try it and see what happens

[Wayz]

Not sure what would be the cause of load times but for me its DEI.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=318151704
This mod helps with fps if it is any use to you though, it works.

[wjpower2003]

Do you find that slow downs tend to happen at later game turns? (like after 150 turns for example)

[Peter Griffin]

Originally posted by wjpower2003:

Do you find that slow downs tend to happen at later game turns? (like after 150 turns for example)

I've been testing the load time with the campaign start, with my most recent test taking almost 8 minutes to load, and it seems to keep hovering around 8 minutes despite me removing mods. Vanilla runs completely fine of course, so I'm not sure what's going on. Radious is my primary mod with a few others like TTT and things that change up the game a bit or add extra units. I put the game on high priority with task manager to maybe get extra CPU to it? Still doesn't help. I also get a black screen and not responding while waiting, but eventually it loads. Is this a common thing and mods don't really work now without waiting for long load times or is there something I can fix?

[Wayz]

Originally posted by Chad Thundercock:

Originally posted by wjpower2003:

Do you find that slow downs tend to happen at later game turns? (like after 150 turns for example)

I've been testing the load time with the campaign start, with my most recent test taking almost 8 minutes to load, and it seems to keep hovering around 8 minutes despite me removing mods. Vanilla runs completely fine of course, so I'm not sure what's going on. Radious is my primary mod with a few others like TTT and things that change up the game a bit or add extra units. I put the game on high priority with task manager to maybe get extra CPU to it? Still doesn't help. I also get a black screen and not responding while waiting, but eventually it loads. Is this a common thing and mods don't really work now without waiting for long load times or is there something I can fix?

Tried disabling each mod one at a time to isolate? Time consuming and annoying with 40+ mods but sometimes is the only way.
DEI slows down turn time but I have never had R2TW take 8 min to load with any mod I have used.
I didn't really like Radious & have not played that mod since its early days so I cant say if its normal to that mod sorry.

[Peter Griffin]

Originally posted by Wayz:

Originally posted by Chad Thundercock:

I've been testing the load time with the campaign start, with my most recent test taking almost 8 minutes to load, and it seems to keep hovering around 8 minutes despite me removing mods. Vanilla runs completely fine of course, so I'm not sure what's going on. Radious is my primary mod with a few others like TTT and things that change up the game a bit or add extra units. I put the game on high priority with task manager to maybe get extra CPU to it? Still doesn't help. I also get a black screen and not responding while waiting, but eventually it loads. Is this a common thing and mods don't really work now without waiting for long load times or is there something I can fix?

Tried disabling each mod one at a time to isolate? Time consuming and annoying with 40+ mods but sometimes is the only way.
DEI slows down turn time but I have never had R2TW take 8 min to load with any mod I have used.
I didn't really like Radious & have not played that mod since its early days so I cant say if its normal to that mod sorry.

Sounds good, I'll mess around with it more tomorrow, thanks for the help so far.

[MANWHATADONGA]

Try this load the first 5 mods,pick a faction then run time down load.If less then 8 minutes its not thoes mods,put on next five and see time,you will get to that mod that is causing your problem.I think that radouis mod is the problem.

[MANWHATADONGA]

Try the radouis mod first.

[BRAN MAC BORN]

Turn load time slow down has to due with the number armies on the campaign map. The Ai has to issues orders for all those armies and it will take it for ever. Radious has stack spam thus the slow down. EMPIRE TW had the same problem with Ottoman turn bug-Ototmans made lots of small armies all over the map-game freezes gets hung up on those armies- I modded it out so Ottomans focus on other things instead of making armies. You can do the same with Rome 2- make Ai do other things instead of making armies. turn times will be fast.

[Peter Griffin]

So I tested the campaign load time with Radious alone and it ended up lasting 2 minutes versus around 20 seconds on vanilla. Is this just something I'll have to get used to or is there anyway I can fix it without having to give up mods? Does not owning all the DLC have something to do with it? How are some people able to run huge amounts of mods without issue?

[Wayz]

Originally posted by Chad Thundercock:

So I tested the campaign load time with Radious alone and it ended up lasting 2 minutes versus around 20 seconds on vanilla. Is this just something I'll have to get used to or is there anyway I can fix it without having to give up mods? Does not owning all the DLC have something to do with it? How are some people able to run huge amounts of mods without issue?

Well it seems if you want radius then 2 min is your min load time. If want to keep it under 8 min start loading all the mods back 1 by 1 or in small groups like MANWHATADONGA suggeted to isolate the remaining 6 min.
It could very well be slowing down with several mods making up that 6 min, if that is the case choices will have to made as to how much load time you are willing to trade for content.
What kind of drive have you installed this on btw?

[Peter Griffin]

Originally posted by Wayz:

Originally posted by Chad Thundercock:

So I tested the campaign load time with Radious alone and it ended up lasting 2 minutes versus around 20 seconds on vanilla. Is this just something I'll have to get used to or is there anyway I can fix it without having to give up mods? Does not owning all the DLC have something to do with it? How are some people able to run huge amounts of mods without issue?

Well it seems if you want radius then 2 min is your min load time. If want to keep it under 8 min start loading all the mods back 1 by 1 or in small groups like MANWHATADONGA suggeted to isolate the remaining 6 min.
It could very well be slowing down with several mods making up that 6 min, if that is the case choices will have to made as to how much load time you are willing to trade for content.
What kind of drive have you installed this on btw?

Yes that is clear, and very unfortunate. What I want to know is how some people are able to run dozens of mods perfectly fine without performance losses like mine, is it just a luck of hardware parts or something they did to edit their game files? I've been reading about how updates to the game over the years have caused all sorts of weird issues when it comes to modding. It's really frustrating that this game doesn't handle the mods well, but Attila does.

[MANWHATADONGA]

Tell us your computer specs and times.Like press play,go through the film intro to ,pick faction ,to when you can start game.Go to thread 8th of Feb 2021,Dizzy loeuy thread.

[Wayz]

Originally posted by MANWHATADONGA:

Tell us your computer specs and times.Like press play,go through the film intro to ,pick faction ,to when you can start game.Go to thread 8th of Feb 2021,Dizzy loeuy thread.

Specs are listed just curious if that ssd is an m.2.