Singleplayer Exit To Main Menu Loading Time.

[Skydor69]

Is anyone else experiencing really long load times when exiting from singleplayer to main menu?

[josephjames972]

yes

[Ballsymcnutt]

Same. Been like that for the last few patches for me.

[Ghost Ryder]

yep very long now
not only that it craches every now and again after exiting.

What I do now since it takes forever to exit.
Bring up console:
type in "saveworld"
then type in "exit"

[PlayerNumber03]

Originally posted by Skydor69:

@Ghost_Ryder - I'll have to try that next time. The last time I played it took 5 mins before it exited to the main menu.

I've noticed this since like v190. What about on official servers? I ONLY experience it in singleplayer

[UnhappyCLOWN]

Originally posted by Ghost_Ryder:

yep very long now
not only that it craches every now and again after exiting.

What I do now since it takes forever to exit.
Bring up console:
type in "saveworld"
then type in "exit"

This is almost exactly what I do as well. Except I Cntr Alt Del out and end the game that way, have to try the exit command instead. Thanks.

[Richter]

I know this is an older thread but I just recently bought/installed this game. Same issue here.

[Greystar]

Yep its been this way the whole time i've played.

[Richter]

Funny thing is I don't need to do tab - saveworld, it does that upon quit.

[Qubaal3]

I believe this is realated to how many dino spawns in the world when exiting SP. SP world will have more dinos roaming than a MP world? Secondly, the .bak files need to be updated too?

[Richter]

I don't know if it's backups but it shouldn't take that long. It's just that alot more must go on behind the scenes when exiting from your own server and it's hanging the game compared to being just a client.

[TNSEE]

Single player is nothing more than running a very short term local server, it takes anywhere from 60 seconds to 5 minutes (depending on your machine) to setup and properly shut down the server portion. Joining / quiting a running server is always going to be much quicker.

[Max]

Originally posted by EvilEngineer:

Single player is nothing more than running a very short term local server, it takes anywhere from 60 seconds to 5 minutes (depending on your machine) to setup and properly shut down the server portion. Joining / quiting a running server is always going to be much quicker.

I run a dedicated server (DS) and test mods on my single player.
My dedicated server is an 8 year old Intel Q6600, 8GB RAM, mechanical HDD.
When I test mods in single player its on an i7-4790k, 16GB RAM, Evo 850 SSD with verified 500MB/s write speed on my system.
My DS takes 240 seconds to start, 5 seconds to shut down.
Joining my DS from my i7 computer via LAN takes me ~15 seconds from hitting JOIN to PLAY, ~ 3 seconds to exit.
My single player takes ~ 40 seconds to start and up to 5min to exit which I usually don't have patience for and simply force quit.

Doesn't make sense at all, must be a bug is all I can say.
Its nothing to do with drivers that people blurt out as the first thing to try and remedy the situation on all the "hangs on exit from sp" threads. I mean, really, you can start game and play for hours and then exiting to main menu crashes and people say its driver related?

A strange issue indeed.

Update: I now test my mods and play in non-dedicated multiplayer mode as it uses the same game data as single player only and it starts up and shuts down quickly without hanging.
Roughly 7.9GB RAM out of 16GB and 17% CPU usage while playing, 36% CPU usage while shutting down for ~ 8 - 10 seconds before getting back to main menu.

[Jynn]

Same, I've always had this issue.

Though with the latest patch, if i try to do ANYTHING when it's quitting singleplayer, it crashes my game and my comptuer >.<

[Red River]

yup super slow on my super fast SSD almost longer than to load the game lol

[Max]

You know what, I just ran in Non Dedicated Multiplayer mode which uses your SP game info as far as I can tell just that it allows a friend to join if they wish, no problem, exiting took ~8 seconds.
I edited my post on page 1 to reflect this finding which is a working interim solution for me.