Wont load

[76561198076216536]

The name says it all,the game gets stuck in the loading screen any help?

[Mike]

Does it hang at the black Grinding Gear Games screen?

it always does that, on my system it hangs for actually minutes. Just wait.

[Grimmpeace]

Same problem here...

[JellyPuff]

It's not an issue, the game just pre-loads tons of stuff beforehand, in order to minimize load-times in-game.

Until you reboot your PC, PoE will load alot faster, if you have already started it up once before.

You can alt-tab or alt-enter on the loading screen, so while it loads, you can watch some youtube videos.

Also, there is a command-line argument, which lets you bypass the long start-up time of this game (--nopreload), but it may result in missing textures or even missing whole assets.

[76561198076216536]

well thx for the replies, i will just wait for a few minutes and see what happens.

[digitaldak]

yea a bit ago it started saying couldn't connect to login server, wasn't doing that a bit ago :\
soo maybe slight issue is up? dunno though, just odd

[JellyPuff]

Originally posted by alexdestroy:

well thx for the replies, i will just wait for a few minutes and see what happens.

If more than 5 minutes have passed on the loading screen, verify the integrety of the game cache via steam, run "PackCheck.exe" in the game's folder and defrag the big .ggpk archive, containing most game's files with "ggpk defragment".

You can get ggpk-defragment here:
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/28060

[76561198076216536]

well i went to that forum and read it,it said steam user: do not use this.so im afraid if i do it will damage path of exile.

Originally posted by Jellypuff:

Originally posted by alexdestroy:

well thx for the replies, i will just wait for a few minutes and see what happens.

If more than 5 minutes have passed on the loading screen, verify the integrety of the game cache via steam, run "PackCheck.exe" in the game's folder and defrag the big .ggpk archive, containing most game's files with "ggpk defragment".

You can get ggpk-defragment here:
{LINK REMOVED}http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/28060

[Vaagur]

It takes me 2-3 minutes to load it the first time. So yeah.

[The_Driver]

Originally posted by alexdestroy:

well i went to that forum and read it,it said steam user: do not use this.so im afraid if i do it will damage path of exile.

Originally posted by Jellypuff:

If more than 5 minutes have passed on the loading screen, verify the integrety of the game cache via steam, run "PackCheck.exe" in the game's folder and defrag the big .ggpk archive, containing most game's files with "ggpk defragment".

You can get ggpk-defragment here:
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/28060

Do not use the internal file defrager for that file if you're a steam user. It might not damage the file, but you'd redownload it upon the next check for integrity of it. So most likely on the next patch (or if you manually trigger it e.g. by verifying the games cache files)

I would even argue that the PackCheck.exe is something a steam-user shouldn't be using, as the steam-game-integrity-verification should be enough to see if it's bogged.

[76561198076216536]

thx u all for your replies i was able to fix it.

[Grimmpeace]

I waited for a while, and its started:) Im ok ty guys^^ (it was aroun 3-4 mins, maybe more.)