Why are loading screens taking so long?

[FreezeLogic]

I've had this problem across multiple PC's at this point. Game runs fine and shouldn't be taxing my rig at all but for some reason I still get 1minute+ load times. Game is on SSD.

[Ommamar]

Using mods?

[FreezeLogic]

Originally posted by Ommamar:

Using mods?

None

[Vul†s]

Over time, as you play the game, the game start to have difficulties reading the huge amount of saves that are being generated. This is normal with most Bethesda games. One thing I highly recommend is, first delete all your saves except the last one. Then disable all auto-saves (This will avoid the bunch of useless saves the game creates) and then start manually saving periodically. This also avoids other problems like save corruption. Another thing that might help is a plugin called Load Accelerator (https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/10283). It's a simple plugin that disables v-sycn on loading screen, helping a bit this information loading.

[FreezeLogic]

Originally posted by Vults:

Over time, as you play the game, the game start to have difficulties reading the huge amount of saves that are being generated. This is normal with most Bethesda games. One thing I highly recommend is, first delete all your saves except the last one. Then disable all auto-saves (This will avoid the bunch of useless saves the game creates) and then start manually saving periodically. This also avoids other problems like save corruption. Another thing that might help is a plugin called Load Accelerator (https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/10283). It's a simple plugin that disables v-sycn on loading screen, helping a bit this information loading.

I only have one save file.

[Shadowrun]

Load Accelerator users should switch to High FPS Physics Fix, which avoids modifying d3d11.dll.

that was a quote from a very brainy web site.

High FPS Physics Fix [REQ: F4SE]
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/44798

this mod will cut your load times in half when setup properly. if you want to know how to set it up properly i created a section on it in my modding guide. it requires F4SE. i also cover installation of that in this guide:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2718451026

[jublubber]

Same problem. Apparently loading screens are locked to 60 fps, and the only solution seems to be the load accelerator mod. I've just leaned into it and started enjoying the idle time, reminds me of the early days of Skyrim when you'd sit and listen to your console agonize over three minutes of loading in all the ♥♥♥♥ you've hoarded.

[Shadowrun]

Originally posted by jublubber:

Same problem. Apparently loading screens are locked to 60 fps, and the only solution seems to be the load accelerator mod. I've just leaned into it and started enjoying the idle time, reminds me of the early days of Skyrim when you'd sit and listen to your console agonize over three minutes of loading in all the ♥♥♥♥ you've hoarded.

Load Accelerator users should switch to High FPS Physics Fix, which avoids modifying d3d11.dll. ( https://wiki.fireundubh.com/fallout4/buffout-faqs )

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by jublubber:

Same problem. Apparently loading screens are locked to 60 fps, and the only solution seems to be the load accelerator mod. I've just leaned into it and started enjoying the idle time, reminds me of the early days of Skyrim when you'd sit and listen to your console agonize over three minutes of loading in all the ♥♥♥♥ you've hoarded.

Skyrim now loads just about instantly. And the only times I ran into long load times ( 45 secs on average ) in Fallout 4 was some places in downtown Boston. I play both games with no outside source mods and have the fps in both games capped at 60 fps.

But I am using Fast Sync in Nvidia Control Panel for Fallout 4 and am running it in Windowed Borderless mode. Which I can not see any difference between it and Fullscreen. Looks and plays the same ether setting. But I read some place, Windowed/Borderless would help some with the loading times. It did for me.

I really did not have a issue waiting a 1 min or so for a area to load in Fallout 4. Which overall, has been a very stable gaming experience.

[Iron Knights]

You don't need mods or accelerators, just get rid of the stupid 60FPS cap.
1) Disable V-Sync in Drivers and in Game.
2) Enable (nvidia) Fast Sync, (AMD) Enhanced Sync in drivers.
3) If you have a high frequency monitor set it to 100-144hz.
4) Cap FPS to the frequency you set above.
No molesting the game and causing other malfunctions.

[Shadowrun]

Originally posted by Iron Knights:

You don't need mods or accelerators, just get rid of the stupid 60FPS cap.
1) Disable V-Sync in Drivers and in Game.
2) Enable (nvidia) Fast Sync, (AMD) Enhanced Sync in drivers.
3) If you have a high frequency monitor set it to 100-144hz.
4) Cap FPS to the frequency you set above.
No molesting the game and causing other malfunctions.

you do need the FPS mod though iron knights because it is what can govern the FPS in-game then increase it during load screens to speed those up.

have you ever even played with the mod before? you know you can set the in-game FPS to whatever you want with it. it has it's own INI files for that. you can set it to 170 FPS if you want. you can set 2 different FPS caps. one in-game and one for load screens. your method is dumb because you're forcing the same FPS on both situations

i think you should stop recommending things to people until you understand more of what you're talking about buddy. seriously, you're always trying to talk over me and you're just doing more damage than good i think.

[Morphine Cat]

I have this same problem, nothing else has the load times FO4 does. Everything else I play has zero load times, including other Bethesda games.

[Shadowrun]

Originally posted by Old Dude Playing Games:

I have this same problem, nothing else has the load times FO4 does. Everything else I play has zero load times, including other Bethesda games.

the solution to that problem is here:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2718451026

[Castyles]

There's a mod that removes the long af loading times. Afraid to install it, though.

Check Nexus under the "performance" tab.

[Shadowrun]

the FPS Physics fix mod. and it's not that scary. follow the instructions in my guide i keep posting.

here is a clip from the configuration file for it

[Limiter]

## FPS limit in the game.
#
InGameFPS=70.0

## FPS limit on loading screens. (only applies if "DisableVSyncWhileLoading" is set to true).
#
#  EnableFPSLimit=true in ENB will overwrite this setting (so be sure to set EnableFPSLimit=false in enblocal.ini if you want to use this feature).
#
LoadingScreenFPS=1000.0

## FPS limit during lockpicking. Uses for fix lockpicking sound.
#
LockpickingFPS=60.0

## FPS limit in Pip-Boy - for example 60.
#
#  Helps to normalize animation speed in Pip-Boy if you are using FallUI mod.
#
PipBoyFPS=60.0

so you can see that you get to set in-game FPS, i keep mine at 70 now so the game doesn't break, but you set it high for load screens. i keep mine at 1000 because my cheap GPU only gets about 500-700 FPS on load screens anyways. your fast cards might do 2000 :D

and this is good because the load screens are also tied to the FPS thanks to the way the game engine was programmed. so, the higher your FPS on load screens, the shorter your wait time.

your solution is right here

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2718451026

[Castyles]

That's very helpful, thanks. I limit my frames to 30 FPS, though.

What do you think should be the best course of action regarding the loading screens frames, then? 1000 is too high. Thinking about picking 400 or something. Yeah. Crazy math skillz, here.