Single Player Takes FOREVER to load...

[Big Fed]

The music plays for a bit on the loading screen and then stops, and about 5 minutes later it finally loads the game, no problems and smooth as can be. Any suggestions to speed this baby up?

[tomyst]

if you have mods its kinda normal

[Big Fed]

Originally posted by tomyst:

if you have mods its kinda normal

I only have omnicular active but do have a few others downloaded. Does having them just downloaded slow it too?

[tomyst]

Can't tell i dont play single player that often but i know that if you play on a normal server even if you have mods download it doesnt affect the loading speed

[RedChaosScrungle (They/Them)]

I agree with you, and have actually calculated the average time it takes to load single player, takes approximately 30 to 50 minutes to load.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by TitaniumSpyBorgBear:

I agree with you, and have actually calculated the average time it takes to load single player, takes approximately 30 to 50 minutes to load.

Best way to improve load times is to put the game on an ssd. Its truly the difference between night and day. If you really want to optimize that, then put it on a pcie ssd versus a sata one(though its not necessarily that dramatic between the two)

[[☥] - CJ -]

An SSD, and 16GB of RAM is the way to go for SP.

Multiplayer is less intense because the server is doing a lot of the work
Whereas in SP your PC is acting as a server AND a client at the same time, so more resources are used.

If it takes ANYONE 30-50mins to load, your PC sucks or you have a lot of crap running in the background sucking up resources. It should NOT take that long. It NEVER took me that long when i had ARK on my HDD, so its definitely an issue on your end

[retsam1]

Personally I think 16gb ram is a bit low, especially if you're playing on your own rig and if modded content is going to be a consideraiton. This becomes worse too if your rig is an older cpu and or older gpu.

Atm ark just shreds ram.



Also, more mods equate to longer load times without an ssd which is super super bad on single player if you load those mods in on it. My previous comp before I gont a new one this month had ark on an hdd and the sp with 5 mods only would take a solid 10min+ to load. Servers were 5-10 with 15-30 mods.

Since I got my ssd its almost no load time really now.

[[☥] - CJ -]

16GB is plenty, as long as you dont bog your system down with un-needed crap running in the background.

Ive had no issues at all with 16GB, and unlike some people ive never encountered a memory leak.