stuch at loading screen

[BLACK rav3nceywolf white]

my loading screen to long..waited fr 15 minuters..still at loading screen..anyone knw hw to fix?

[Demon]

ME TOO~THIS GAME'S DEAD

[ImYourHuckleberry]

I played it a couple days ago. No issues.

[习近平亲自指挥修机]

Originally posted by BLACK rav3nceywolf white:

my loading screen to long..waited fr 15 minuters..still at loading screen..anyone knw hw to fix?

same issue here

[Chow]

Same... seems to be dead game

[KnightKarr1981]

Yeah i reinstalled a few days ago tried it today, Just watching the word ''Loading'' flashing for ever

[Realigo Actual]

It's because the game will fail if the OS presents it more than 8 cores. Is a well-known problem. There is a guide in the game's guide section to address this using the Windows ADK, which is kind of involved.

edit: Anyway I made this post yesterday to make it faster for somebody on Linux or ChromeOS. I went into the post thinking that the game would be perfect on 4 cores seeing as how it craps its pants with higher than 8, but it's actually heavier to run than I expected. So you probably want 8, but with 8 things start to get more complicated depending on combinations of hyperthreading being enabled or disabled or asymmetrical cache layouts inspired by Intel's and AMD's various eccentricities.

People on Proton, put this in the Launch options

WINE_CPU_TOPOLOGY=8:0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 %command%

Windows users should probably use the ADK guide in the guide section. You can follow these instructions but it is for the whole system so using ADK will be less hassle over time >> https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017754618-The-Technomancer-Launching-problems-on-multithread-CPUs?product=gog

Supposedly Steam will pass any core affinity that it is set to along for the programs that it launches. I can't test it though so I don't know if it gets around the game's issue on Windows. To see if it does, quit Steam and start a cmd prompt in Steam's install directory and type the below, then start the game from Steam.

start /affinity 0xFF steam.exe

[KnightKarr1981]

yeah i just checked, i forgot i'm running an Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 5 245KF, 4200 Mhz, 14 core(s), 14 Logical Processor(s) with 32GB Memory and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060