why does the game take so long to load?

[Cloudy Chair]

I've seen several people, myself included, get stuck at 99% for like a minute and it's just annoying
does anyone know *why* this happens tho?

["courage"]

It's because your videocard is struggling to load your ultra settings

https://www.nexusmods.com/marvelrivals/mods/273

Set your graphics settings to absolute lowest and see how fast it'll be

[Rogueraccoon]

It needs an SSD which is BS if you ask me since I have no room on my C drive so I need to use my other drive which runs games very well like fortnite but my God they can't optimize the game at least

[LadyMav]

SSD and lowest settings do not always fix this issue. I started playing during the Jeff winter event. It took a while to log in to rounds however they had only just started when I got into matches. So I missed maybe 3 seconds of the round. However now that the Fantastic 4 has been added to the game it takes me 6 minutes after the round starts before I can get in. I have set it to the lowest video settings, and it is installed on an SSD and it still takes this long. I even have it set to run the game as administrator and nothing. Sad that the longer it is out the harder it is to play. :(

[viperswipe]

Originally posted by Cheez Samich:

I've tried everything I possibly could, moving files, dropping settings down to the lowest possible, even went and bought a longer ethernet cable to run through my house since my modem is in a different room. Not a single thing worked.
So my last resort is hard resetting my computer to clear any and everything off all my hard drives and reinstalling it back onto my SSD.
I have a RTX3060 and 32gb ram with a 500gig drive
I've never had a single issue with any UE5 games until this game came out. And truly I think they hard released it without testing optimization to its fullest. Seems to run just fine on my partners 4020 but I won't load in until halfway through the match and even more so for my character to load in.

Did it work out for you? I'm planning to reinstall windows OS to get rid of crap and install it on my SSD.

[thegamepantheon]

Download it with Epic game launcher it will take care of the issues not sure why steam has this issue with marvel rivals

[Cloudy Chair]

Originally posted by thegamepantheon:

Download it with Epic game launcher it will take care of the issues not sure why steam has this issue with marvel rivals

will do

[Baze]

Originally posted by Cheez Samich:

I've tried everything I possibly could, moving files, dropping settings down to the lowest possible, even went and bought a longer ethernet cable to run through my house since my modem is in a different room. Not a single thing worked.
So my last resort is hard resetting my computer to clear any and everything off all my hard drives and reinstalling it back onto my SSD.
I have a RTX3060 and 32gb ram with a 500gig drive
I've never had a single issue with any UE5 games until this game came out. And truly I think they hard released it without testing optimization to its fullest. Seems to run just fine on my partners 4020 but I won't load in until halfway through the match and even more so for my character to load in.

did you fix the problem because im also having this problem and I dont know what to do

[AHighGuy]

Originally posted by Cloudy Chair:

Originally posted by thegamepantheon:

Download it with Epic game launcher it will take care of the issues not sure why steam has this issue with marvel rivals

will do

Did the switch to epic fix it?

Originally posted by Rogueraccoon:

It needs an SSD which is BS if you ask me since I have no room on my C drive so I need to use my other drive which runs games very well like fortnite but my God they can't optimize the game at least

Im a bit wary of switching it over to my M.2 as that holds my windows files and I really dont want a game to spread whatever invisible threats it has onto my windows.

[Luckyxray]

Its either the drive you have the game on or you have a weaker cpu

[Ponyboy]

unreal engine 5 is one of the worst gamoing engine out there and developers love overloading is unoptimnized ass with as much pointless ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ as possible. thats why games like marvel rivals and fortnite run ♥♥♥♥ on mid to high range PCs. thats why these games need to DOUBLE THEIR FILE SIZE WHEN DOWNLOADING AN UPDATE. thats why they take forever to load unless theyre atomicaly welded to your SSD drive which only has enough space for 1 unreal engine 5 game of 10000000+ GB.

optimization is dead. UE5 helped ruin it.

[Haku_81]

The reason this happens is because games are ever more and more complicated, Marvel Rivals in particular has a lot more moving parts than you might thing. Just because a game doesn't have hyper realistic graphics, doesn't mean it's not graphically intensive. On PC in particular damn near every computer has different GPU, different SSD or HDD, different cooling, different processing, different maintenance quality, different this and that and literally everything else.

This is the down side of PC gaming. Consoles are consistent, but PCs are WILDLY different between individual systems. So optimizing games like Marvel Rivals, an online cooperative game with a dozen different people ACROSS PC AND CONSOLES, it's VERY difficult to get everything working smoothly. Literally changing something like the damage value of Thor's ultimate could cause bizarre ♥♥♥♥ for no reason because YOUR system threw a fit calculating those extra few damage ticks. Netease is always working on the game and updating it, so the only certain option is to wait until they identify more problems (Which is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard when all anyone tells you is "Not optimized!") and make the game run smoother for more people. Which will inevitably butt against FIXED problems and cause NEW problems, because that's how it goes.

Do the SSD thing, make sure your drivers are all updated, do all that stuff. But if that fails, I have something that helped me at least. It didn't FIX the problem, but it REDUCED it a lot.

Go to Settings > Display > Graphics
Set graphics quality to Medium
Then go down to Post Processing and set that to low, and change Model Detail to Performance.

Again, this didn't ELIMINATE the issue, but it made it much less of a problem.

Companies releasing super buggy and poorly optimized games IS an issue in the industry, but Marvel Rivals actually has a good reason it SEEMS to not be optimized. There's so much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ moving in so many directions just due to the nature of the game alongside so much different hardware that something's bound to go wrong for someone. People tend to forget how complicated this stuff is and just think there's a one stop shop to make "Optimized games". There's not, every single game needs different things to work as smoothly as possible, and even if you code everything perfectly the game could explode because it's angry at your AMD graphics card. So the real solution, is just wait until the game is improved and your specific problem gets hit. Until then, either don't play or try these things to minimize the issue.