mods taking forever to load

[skillless402]

so i put a ton of mods in my game and they all work fine and everything but it just takes forever to load in is there a tool or something to make it so it organzies all of my mods to make it load in faster

[Ancient]

The tool you seek is called an NVMe SSD[i.imgur.com]

Install the game onto one.

[skillless402]

Originally posted by Ancient:

The tool you seek is called an NVMe SSD[i.imgur.com]

Install the game onto one.

i got an ssd but i really dont feel like moving everything around just for ark

[Ancient]

Originally posted by skillless402:

Originally posted by Ancient:

The tool you seek is called an NVMe SSD[i.imgur.com]

Install the game onto one.

i got an ssd but i really dont feel like moving everything around just for ark

Unfortunately, there's not much else that will help. The way the game mods work, they are a bunch of loose files (my mods folder is 12,000+ files) and an HDD takes a long time to access and read them all into memory.

I don't really like it either. I'd much rather have that 170GB of SSD space back, but I couldn't stand the load times even when I had the game on 2X RAID 0 HDDs.

[skillless402]

Originally posted by Ancient:

Originally posted by skillless402:

i got an ssd but i really dont feel like moving everything around just for ark

Unfortunately, there's not much else that will help. The way the game mods work, they are a bunch of loose files (my mods folder is 12,000+ files) and an HDD takes a long time to access and read them all into memory.

I don't really like it either. I'd much rather have that 170GB of SSD space back, but I couldn't stand the load times even when I had the game on 2X RAID 0 HDDs.

because i put like five new mods of like the 10 to 20 i had already loadded it went from like 5 to 8 mins to like 30 mins or more

[Vesuvius]

Originally posted by skillless402:

Originally posted by Ancient:

Unfortunately, there's not much else that will help. The way the game mods work, they are a bunch of loose files (my mods folder is 12,000+ files) and an HDD takes a long time to access and read them all into memory.

I don't really like it either. I'd much rather have that 170GB of SSD space back, but I couldn't stand the load times even when I had the game on 2X RAID 0 HDDs.

because i put like five new mods of like the 10 to 20 i had already loadded it went from like 5 to 8 mins to like 30 mins or more

and the more mods you add ... the longer it will take.... 20+ mods on a sata ssd takes about 3mins

[skillless402]

Originally posted by Vesuvius:

Originally posted by skillless402:

because i put like five new mods of like the 10 to 20 i had already loadded it went from like 5 to 8 mins to like 30 mins or more

and the more mods you add ... the longer it will take.... 20+ mods on a sata ssd takes about 3mins

yeah but i mean most of it doesnt add much in the game and it kinda makes no sense on why it takes so long like the main thing i added it extincon core but i already had 2 of its mod loaded so its confussing on why it would take so long

[Patouski]

Originally posted by skillless402:

Originally posted by Ancient:

The tool you seek is called an NVMe SSD[i.imgur.com]

Install the game onto one.

i got an ssd but i really dont feel like moving everything around just for ark

I concur on the nVMe SSD option. I have ARK on my Samsung 970 Evo Plus m.2 500GB NVMe SSD and loading into my Ragnarok server with 18 mods takes literally: 1 minute 30 seconds TOPS. That's from "joining" to loading the mods, to loading the game files and entering the game. Loading onto my AB server with 9 mods, takes 1 minute TOPS - and that's on a bad day.

[Gran]

Originally posted by skillless402:

Originally posted by Vesuvius:

and the more mods you add ... the longer it will take.... 20+ mods on a sata ssd takes about 3mins

yeah but i mean most of it doesnt add much in the game and it kinda makes no sense on why it takes so long like the main thing i added it extincon core but i already had 2 of its mod loaded so its confussing on why it would take so long

It doesn't matter if it adds much. It matters how large the Modfiles are and how many of them it has.

[skillless402]

Originally posted by Patouski:

Originally posted by skillless402:

i got an ssd but i really dont feel like moving everything around just for ark

I concur on the nVMe SSD option. I have ARK on my Samsung 970 Evo Plus m.2 500GB NVMe SSD and loading into my Ragnarok server with 18 mods takes literally: 1 minute 30 seconds TOPS. That's from "joining" to loading the mods, to loading the game files and entering the game. Loading onto my AB server with 9 mods, takes 1 minute TOPS - and that's on a bad day.

yeah it wont let me put all my stuff on my ssd so i got to split them up and see if that works better

[Patouski]

Originally posted by skillless402:

Originally posted by Patouski:

I concur on the nVMe SSD option. I have ARK on my Samsung 970 Evo Plus m.2 500GB NVMe SSD and loading into my Ragnarok server with 18 mods takes literally: 1 minute 30 seconds TOPS. That's from "joining" to loading the mods, to loading the game files and entering the game. Loading onto my AB server with 9 mods, takes 1 minute TOPS - and that's on a bad day.

yeah it wont let me put all my stuff on my ssd so i got to split them up and see if that works better

Well, ARK is a big game, even bigger if you have plenty of mods. The bigger the mod / modlist, the longer the load times.

My ARK folder is 212 GB, thus a 240-256GB SSD or even NVMe SSD was out of the question. ARK is one of those game that requires a dedicated storage location and an SSD does improve your QoL when playing a modded game.

[YOinks]

i just installed 1 at a time made sure more manual work but its aot quicker than installing em all at once

[Jaykez]

Originally posted by Vesuvius:

Originally posted by skillless402:

because i put like five new mods of like the 10 to 20 i had already loadded it went from like 5 to 8 mins to like 30 mins or more

and the more mods you add ... the longer it will take.... 20+ mods on a sata ssd takes about 3mins

Just wanted to point out that the number of mods doesn't matter, mods that only take ~10mb of storage will load way faster than a mod that is 10gb.

[dragonsphotoworks]

I have full S+, castles, atlas additions and about 20 other mods. my list about... 25-30 mods. and most are large. You think you have it bad... im on a 4TB USB HDD! lol untill can repair my OS and other 3 drives im stuck on hdd. But have a 4TB SSD ready for ark once all fixed "need new copy of Win 10 :-/" but for now takes about 30 minutes literally to load.

[lemp]

Originally posted by Patouski:

Originally posted by skillless402:

i got an ssd but i really dont feel like moving everything around just for ark

I concur on the nVMe SSD option. I have ARK on my Samsung 970 Evo Plus m.2 500GB NVMe SSD and loading into my Ragnarok server with 18 mods takes literally: 1 minute 30 seconds TOPS. That's from "joining" to loading the mods, to loading the game files and entering the game. Loading onto my AB server with 9 mods, takes 1 minute TOPS - and that's on a bad day.

almost 2 minutes lost for nothing ... thats actually a very bad structure ... It should just make a check if the mod is at the current version and if so it shouldnt have to load the mods at all ... so if ther eis a new version it needs to reload for sure but otherwise .. it should be instant login ...

Really unsure what a wierd system is behind this all