Very slow zone loading, is there a solution to improve it?

[gatsu86]

At the beginning of the game the loading times varied around 20/30 seconds but now that I'm in chapter 2 they sometimes take over 2 minutes... what can I do to speed them up?

I'm playing on Ultra and the rest of the game runs well, only the loading (loading from save or/and loading new zones) is starting to bother me a lot.

I don't think it matters much, but I would add that I record my gameplay with OBS Studio for YouTube... could this also be part of the problem?

Here are my PC specs:

The PC is 3 years old, I bought it in 2021.
MSI Laptop Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
64 GB ram
Nvidia Geforce 1650 Graphic card (Drivers already updated)

[Hathur]

HDD or SSD? This game detests HDD, I made the mistake of installing it on my HDD by accident and load times were criminal (3+ minutes). On my SSD, load times are maybe 20 seconds max.

[gatsu86]

Originally posted by Hathur:

HDD or SSD? This game detests HDD, I made the mistake of installing it on my HDD by accident and load times were criminal (3+ minutes). On my SSD, load times are maybe 20 seconds max.

I think SSD but I'm not sure, how or where can I see this data?
Edit: Ok, I checked, is an SSD.

[Hathur]

Originally posted by gatsu86:

Originally posted by Hathur:

HDD or SSD? This game detests HDD, I made the mistake of installing it on my HDD by accident and load times were criminal (3+ minutes). On my SSD, load times are maybe 20 seconds max.

I think SSD but I'm not sure, how or where can I see this data?

If you're on window 10 (might work on win11 too, not sure, don't have it) Open windows file explorer, right click on the drive in question, click "Tools" tab, click "Optimize" - It will show all your drives. Under the "Media type" column it will say either "Solid State" or "Hard Disk".

[gatsu86]

Originally posted by Hathur:

If you're on window 10 (might work on win11 too, not sure, don't have it) Open windows file explorer, right click on the drive in question, click "Tools" tab, click "Optimize" - It will show all your drives. Under the "Media type" column it will say either "Solid State" or "Hard Disk".

Yes I did something similar, I have Windows 11. The Disc is an SSD (Solid State)

[Hathur]

Originally posted by gatsu86:

Originally posted by Hathur:

If you're on window 10 (might work on win11 too, not sure, don't have it) Open windows file explorer, right click on the drive in question, click "Tools" tab, click "Optimize" - It will show all your drives. Under the "Media type" column it will say either "Solid State" or "Hard Disk".

Yes I did something similar, I have Windows 11. The Disc is an SSD (Solid State)

Very odd. The only thing I could imagine causing this is if the drive is 80% or more full (SSD's don't perform well if you're down to under 20% space remaining).

I'm currently in chapter (act?) 3 (finished 2 recently) and load times are still only around 22 seconds and were basically the same in chapter 2... I can't see why your load times went from 20-30 seconds to a full 2 minutes unless it's something normal for the game (which doesn't appear the case as my load times were well under 30 seconds in chapter 2 and 3)

[gatsu86]

I understand now, space is probably the problem.. I currently have 166 GB out of the total 454 GB available on the disk. and MSI Dragon Center tells me that the SSD has 184.98 GB available (61%).
CPU temperature 64 C°
GPU temperature 57 C°
Maybe when this happened I had reached a lower capacity due to the encoding going on.

I imagine that the only solution would be to connect the external hard disk and save the videos directly there, but it's a bit inconvenient. :/

Anyway, thanks for the advice and tips. :)