How long does it take to load your game?

[The Zanzibarbarian]

So... With all the great MODS that are currently available for ARK (I’ve not done SE yet!), how many are you using on Single Player (As I do.), or on a server, and how long does it take for your game to load up when you start up your PC?
I have 44 MODS all working fine. However, I do appreciate that some players have real problems getting them all working together. I’m either just very lucky or very selective!?
It takes me about 6 mins and 50 secs to load up the game first time.
How many MODS are you using and how long does it take you to get into your game?

[Atrushan]

I have only 5 mods running, but it takes a couple of minutes to load the game. I haven't counted how many exactly.

[margalus]

no mods, maybe 20-30 seconds.. Haven't clocked it lately.

[McRed]

Around 20 mods.. 20-30 seconds. Helps to have a solid state drive. Waaaay faster load times.

[Naerah(Qc)]

I play on a server with like 10 mods and for some reason it can take up to 10 minutes to load. Once took me 15 mins. For once i wont blame ARK but probably the mods it has to load.

[< blank >]

Only a couple of seconds regardless of the amount of mods I have. Back before I switched to an SSD it was a couple of minutes.

[DemitriX]

Roughly 15 seconds on the center, 13 mods.
SSD ofc.

[Vin.]

Without mods, quick. Under a minute. With mods, up to 5 minutes.

[old mate]

i have an ssd and pretty powerful pc

about 10-20 seconds, mods make no difference

[Fuggered]

Around 15-20 seconds, couple mods and SSD.

[margalus]

Just timed it. The times are from when I hit "play" or "join" in the menu to the point where I am walking in the game and fully functional.

Joining an official server was 12 seconds.

Starting my single player game was 23 seconds.

[BubbRubb]

It must be all the mods you're loading. I run 2 mods, corpsefinder and advanced ark 10. Load time is about 20 seconds.

[Doublee (EE)]

I'm been working with this for over a year. I find that using small size mods and less complicated helps speed it up. If you using 1gb and 2gb mods (Annuski, Dino Overhaul, EcoTrees, Resource Crops) it will take some time. I also notice some of the building mods (Metal and Glass, Middle Ages, etc) will cause a longer load. I have went through and use mods under 400mb and things are ok. Just some mods seem to take longer if they are above 500mb.

ARK's Mod loader is part of the problem. It should let you load the mods prior to joing the server like Arma3 and it could be faster. It would have to know what mods were on the server to preload them somehow. Maybe just put all the mods you use in a list to load when you open ARK and then it's good when you join.

I found out when you CrossARK to another map using the same mods, it loads in like 1 minute. But loading into the first map takes me around 5 minutes.

I use 45+ mods that are fine and players don't mind since they can enjoy all the fun. But I had players around 15-20 minutes before and some 5 minutes. So i guess it depends on the clients hardware (SSD, Memory, CPU, Internet Speed) so I'm sure there's alot more to it.

[Gear Ratio]

The number of mods doesn't matter. It's the size of the mods that counts.

[Potato]

20-30 seconds, even with 20+ mods and big ones like annunaki it doesn't go over a minute.

SSD is huge for load times.

[The Zanzibarbarian]

Originally posted by Wheatley:

The number of mods doesn't matter. It's the size of the mods that counts.

Thanks. But we know that. I'm just interested in how many MODS and load times. I have an SSD but don't use it for ARK. It's interesting just how much faster it loads with the SSD though. I'm tempted to put ARK onto it.

Originally posted by Vernius Arrakis:

10-15 mins without any mods,not even daring to try with mods.

Ouch!!