Unreasonably long loading times

[Marco Skoll]

Loading any scenario seems to take several minutes, during which time the loading page usually freezes at least twice.

As is, I'm loading off a decent Samsung SSD, and my system is considerably above the recommended specs, so this is not a question of poor hardware.
(On a related note, I've just had an "Out of Memory" error when running in 64-bit mode with 64 GBs of RAM and 12 GBs of VRAM at the game's disposal, so not particularly impressed with that, either).

I have tried verifying the game cache, but that has made no difference to the loading times. What other fixes are there at my disposal?

[sbmarauderman03]

type in the search bar "out of memory" and you will have 100+ threads to choose from to see which fix action(s) you need to try as the OOM issue is not a generic problem but more prone to the user's setup and game settings....good luck!

[he's in the walls]

Go to the properties of Train Simulator, then go to launch options and type -fastload there.

Steam > Library > Train Simulator > Properties > Launch Options > Type: "-fastload"

This actually does speed up loading by the way, my friend told me about this and it does speed loading up a significant amount.

[cuavas]

Originally posted by TrainLover106YT:

Go to the properties of Train Simulator, then go to launch options and type -fastload there.

Steam > Library > Train Simulator > Properties > Launch Options > Type: "-fastload"

This actually does speed up loading by the way, my friend told me about this and it does speed loading up a significant amount.

Be aware that this is incompatible with some routes right now (IIRC Tadami line is one that won’t work with that option).

[he's in the walls]

Originally posted by cuavas:

Originally posted by TrainLover106YT:

Go to the properties of Train Simulator, then go to launch options and type -fastload there.

Steam > Library > Train Simulator > Properties > Launch Options > Type: "-fastload"

This actually does speed up loading by the way, my friend told me about this and it does speed loading up a significant amount.

Be aware that this is incompatible with some routes right now (IIRC Tadami line is one that won’t work with that option).

Yes, but I'm telling this just to help with most of the other routes that will work with this.

[Rocket Witch]

Originally posted by Marco Skoll:

(On a related note, I've just had an "Out of Memory" error when running in 64-bit mode with 64 GBs of RAM and 12 GBs of VRAM at the game's disposal, so not particularly impressed with that, either).

'Out of memory' is just the default error message, for reasons unknown. Most of these errors are presumably unhandled exceptions. Usually it happens in the main menu while the game is processing some database stuff in the background. Clear the cache from within the game's own main menu settings (this is a game feature and completely unrelated to Steam verification).

64-bit mode is actually more likely to cause errors, as many add-ons were made before it existed and have not been updated for compatibility. Generally you should stick to 32-bit unless you actually need the extra RAM for loading lots of different AI trains, as would be the case if you ran a scenario which has all of the prototypical stock that would be seen in London, for example.