Long loading screens

[AwkWord]

When I load up the game getting into the main menu takes about a second, but then loading into characters or new locations, like "Lioneye's Watch" either doesnt load or takes ridiculously long. I cant tell i only let it load for about 10 minutes before trying to restart it and had the same issue. New to this game so sorry if this is already posted and I didn't see it, but is there a fix for this or can I just not play? This is scratching an ARPG itch I havent had scratched in a long time!

[DSideDaemons]

What are your system specs? I'm a little lost on your problem, but I think you should start there. Also, under your options menu, is multi-threading set to off and directx set to 9 or 11?

[Awesome!]

10 minutes is not "long loading screen" its "frozen game"

[AwkWord]

I run windows 10x64, i7 2.4GHz, 24 GB RAM, SLI GTX 765M and a 1TB HDD. Im running more than minimum. I tried running it in compatability mode. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling too and testing integrity. I tried running with directx 9 and 11 and with multithreading both enabled and disabled and no matter what I still get the same issue. The game is reported as "running" in task manager and I can still move my mouse around but I can't enter the next area at all. i can make a new character and the beach loads just fine, but when I try to advance i am stuck in the loading screen.

[Awesome!]

have you ever successfully loaded into lioneyes watch

[AwkWord]

Never

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GGG Help

[Detergent]

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Launch_options

Try adding "--nopreload" to the games launch option. This will increase loading screen time, but sounds like your game is just not loading at all.

[Thirsk]

My guess would be that your HDD is extraordinarily slow, because PoE takes forever to load on everything but an SSD.
Download CrystalDiskMark[crystalmark.info] and post an image of the results.

[Lagwin1980]

Originally posted by Thirsk:

because PoE takes forever to load on everything but an SSD.

Untrue, using a standard HDD, initial load into the game takes like 30 seconds (and that only because i'm forcing it to load more before the login screen with --waitforpreload)
Without it, you are looking a few seconds to get into the game and maybe about 10 max between areas.

[Thirsk]

Originally posted by Lagwin1980:

Untrue, using a standard HDD, initial load into the game takes like 30 seconds (and that only because i'm forcing it to load more before the login screen with --waitforpreload)
Without it, you are looking a few seconds to get into the game and maybe about 10 max between areas.

Maybe they've changed something since I put it on an SSD, but back when I started playing it would easily take ~5 minutes on startup, and ~1 minute between each zone. This was on a 7200 rpm HDD.

[DSideDaemons]

Originally posted by Thirsk:

Originally posted by Lagwin1980:

Untrue, using a standard HDD, initial load into the game takes like 30 seconds (and that only because i'm forcing it to load more before the login screen with --waitforpreload)
Without it, you are looking a few seconds to get into the game and maybe about 10 max between areas.

Maybe they've changed something since I put it on an SSD, but back when I started playing it would easily take ~5 minutes on startup, and ~1 minute between each zone. This was on a 7200 rpm HDD.

Yes, they did make changes in regard to startup time. The game loads assets much more quickly than previous years.

[AwkWord]

Originally posted by Lagwin1980:

Originally posted by Thirsk:

because PoE takes forever to load on everything but an SSD.

Untrue, using a standard HDD, initial load into the game takes like 30 seconds (and that only because i'm forcing it to load more before the login screen with --waitforpreload)
Without it, you are looking a few seconds to get into the game and maybe about 10 max between areas.

"--waitforpreload" seems to have fixed my issue, now everything is taking max 30 seconds! Thanks a ton!