installing mods greatly increase loading time? fixed

[Overkill_Alaric]

installed 2 seperate mods that changes xml files. affects your skill level and weapon degredation. and jesuis christ it took me almost 8min to load when it normally takes me 40-50seconds. is that normal for installing mods?

[Overkill_Alaric]

it was precaching files that took up a strong majority of the loading

[I Don't Care]

I've never had an issue with mods drastically increasing load time. I've used big overhual mods before and they only increased loading time by lik 15-25 seconds.

[YamaKami]

Mods will typically have an adverse effect on performance. The only thing that will vary there is hardware and how capable of handling the mods you are using it is.

[Overkill_Alaric]

have it installed on an ssd that read 6gb/s. 2 ram card and each is at 16gb and can use roughly 14.6gb with my windows 8.1 64bit system and got an 8 core processor with each being 4.22ghz so it shouldnt be a problem

[YamaKami]

Originally posted by Overkill_Alaric:

have it installed on an ssd that read 6gb/s. 2 ram card and each is at 16gb and can use roughly 14.6gb with my windows 8.1 64bit system and got an 8 core processor with each being 4.22ghz so it shouldnt be a problem

Yet it is.

[DeadlyDanDaMan]

No, that isn't normal OP. It should never take that long to load, even with the largest of mods. Something is screwy with your game or PC. I've never had any PC game ever take that long to load in my entire life, even far less superior hardware. Unless you are exaggerating...

[Wave]

Originally posted by Overkill_Alaric:

installed 2 seperate mods that changes xml files. affects your skill level and weapon degredation. and jesuis christ it took me almost 8min to load when it normally takes me 40-50seconds. is that normal for installing mods?

It's unusual. Which mods are we talking about?

[Valmar]

This would be something you'd be better off asking in the specific mod topics, not here. You dont even mention what mods you installed.

[Overkill_Alaric]

http://www.nexusmods.com/7daystodie/mods/38/?tab=3&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2F7daystodie%2Fajax%2Fmodimages%2F%3Fuser%3D0%26id%3D38%26gid%3D1059 and http://www.nexusmods.com/7daystodie/mods/28/? wondered if it happened for mods in general

[Valmar]

A few things to point out.

First off, those two mods would not work together as-is. 7DTD is a not a game where you can just add multiple mods and have them all automatically combine and work together. Both of those mods edit the items.xml. As such the last one you add to your game will always overwrite the other.

Fortunately both mods are actually really simple in design and would be easy to manually combine or mod yourself in your own files. If you want help with this feel free to ask and I'll point out what you need to do. Its just change a few lines of code in the items.xml, really. Simple, though perhaps al ittle time consuming.

Secondly these items.xml were build for different builds of 7DTD. That could cause issues, though honestly I dont think items.xml has changed much since A15 to now, so it should be alright. Just something to keep in mind.

Third none of these changes should have any impact whatsoever on your game's loading time whatsoever.