Textures Loading Slowly

[Rhyagelle]

Hello,

Okay, no matter what setting I use, my textures load in so painfully slow that I want to murder something. Just set it on FIRE. I can play it on pretty high settings very comfortably @ 1080p, but I can't enjoy the pretty graphics because of the stupid slow loading issue. It is especially prominent in towns or near clusters of objects, but it does happen out in the wild as well and on NPCs very, very frequently.

I have searched and searched, tried my GOG version, reinstalled, verified, even tried a mod that tries to fix it, but it persists. So, does anyone know how to fix this stupid thing? I'd greatly appreciate any help, just want to play this game without having to look at play dough.

Thanks! :)

RIG:

CPU: i7-8700k
GPU: RX 570
RAM: 16GB 3200mhz
SSD: 500GB

[♠.brT]

I had issues with the windows game pass version of KCD with textures ocasionally loading very slowly and in some cutscenes only the low resolution textures would load at all, but haven't experience any of these issues with the steam version, some texture pop in here and there but nothing major.


You said you already tried a mod, are you talking about this https://www.nexusmods.com/kingdomcomedeliverance/mods/27 mod?

is it a distance issue? like do they load when you are up close, but far away they remain in low resolution for longer than they should?

[Rhyagelle]

Originally posted by ♠.brT:

I had issues with the windows game pass version of KCD with textures ocasionally loading very slowly and in some cutscenes only the low resolution textures would load at all, but haven't experience any of these issues with the steam version, some texture pop in here and there but nothing major.


You said you already tried a mod, are you talking about this https://www.nexusmods.com/kingdomcomedeliverance/mods/27 mod?

is it a distance issue? like do they load when you are up close, but far away they remain in low resolution for longer than they should?

I'm not sure if it is a distance issue, I can try to check. I always ran up to them in annoyance and sat there to watch and count how long it would take until they loaded. lol

And yes, that's the mod I tried. It didn't seem to work for me though.

[♠.brT]

Have you tried the console command to force it to load earlier?

r_TexturesStreamingMipBias -3

Also about your GPU, is it the 4GB model or the 8GB model?
In theory it shouldn't matter, since i have the 580 4GB model and don't have issues with the steam version, but if you are using the 4GB model and you happen to have the HD texture pack installed, you might run into issues due to low vram amount.

Is the game installed in your SSD btw?

[Rhyagelle]

Originally posted by ♠.brT:

Have you tried the console command to force it to load earlier?

r_TexturesStreamingMipBias -3

Also about your GPU, is it the 4GB model or the 8GB model?
In theory it shouldn't matter, since i have the 580 4GB model and don't have issues with the steam version, but if you are using the 4GB model and you happen to have the HD texture pack installed, you might run into issues due to low vram amount.

Yes, I tried that command with -3 the user.cfg in the install directory and then loading it with +exec user.cfg via Steam. I'll try it again.

I have the 4GB version, ASUS model. I was having the streaming issue before the HD Texture pack was installed, sadly. I was asked to try installing the pack to see if it might override potentially broken textures, but I can check if that is an issue too. And oh, I had an overlay run and checked my VRAM usage, didn't seem to be hitting my limit, but I'll check that again too when I run my game next (verifying right now).

EDIT

Yes, the game is installed on my SSD.

[♠.brT]

Originally posted by Rhyagelle:

Originally posted by ♠.brT:

Have you tried the console command to force it to load earlier?

r_TexturesStreamingMipBias -3

Also about your GPU, is it the 4GB model or the 8GB model?
In theory it shouldn't matter, since i have the 580 4GB model and don't have issues with the steam version, but if you are using the 4GB model and you happen to have the HD texture pack installed, you might run into issues due to low vram amount.

Yes, I tried that command with -3 the user.cfg in the install directory and then loading it with +exec user.cfg via Steam. I'll try it again.

I have the 4GB version, ASUS model. I was having the streaming issue before the HD Texture pack was installed, sadly. I was asked to try installing the pack to see if it might override potentially broken textures, but I can check if that is an issue too. And oh, I had an overlay run and checked my VRAM usage, didn't seem to be hitting my limit, but I'll check that again too when I run my game next (verifying right now).

EDIT

Yes, the game is installed on my SSD.

if you are not using the hd pack (which there is an option in the menu i think to actually enable even if you have it) then it really shouldn't be a vram amount limit.
I mean if you tried all the popular solutions already i'd start the desperate measures of maybe moving the game to the HDD and see if that solves it, or just straight up reinstalling the game.
But before you do that of course make sure your drivers are up to date.

[Rhyagelle]

Originally posted by ♠.brT:

Originally posted by Rhyagelle:

Yes, I tried that command with -3 the user.cfg in the install directory and then loading it with +exec user.cfg via Steam. I'll try it again.

I have the 4GB version, ASUS model. I was having the streaming issue before the HD Texture pack was installed, sadly. I was asked to try installing the pack to see if it might override potentially broken textures, but I can check if that is an issue too. And oh, I had an overlay run and checked my VRAM usage, didn't seem to be hitting my limit, but I'll check that again too when I run my game next (verifying right now).

EDIT

Yes, the game is installed on my SSD.

if you are not using the hd pack (which there is an option in the menu i think to actually enable even if you have it) then it really shouldn't be a vram amount limit.
I mean if you tried all the popular solutions already i'd start the desperate measures of maybe moving the game to the HDD and see if that solves it, or just straight up reinstalling the game.
But before you do that of course make sure your drivers are up to date.

My drivers are up to date, reinstalled them for Red Dead Online, and I have already reinstalled the game (both for GOG and Steam). I'm about to check if verifying on the SSD after removing the pack from Steam itself works and then I'll test disabling the pack. I just hope one of them works.

[♠.brT]

Yeah man, i don't know what else you could try then. it looks like you already tried all the popular fixes out there so i doubt i'd be able to help you much if at all.

My advice then would be to contact the developers directly through their support email.
you can get it through here:
https://www.kingdomcomerpg.com/en/community

Best of Luck.

[Rhyagelle]

Originally posted by ♠.brT:

Yeah man, i don't know what else you could try then. it looks like you already tried all the popular fixes out there so i doubt i'd be able to help you much if at all.

My advice then would be to contact the developers directly through their support email.
you can get it through here:
https://www.kingdomcomerpg.com/en/community

Best of Luck.

Wow, I think that fixed it! Just rode through Rattay without seeing a single potato building or puddle, so that's progress! I took a pretty heavy performance hit though with your posted command (mine was misspelled with a space! xD) but no more texture load in it seems. I can just turn down particles and shadows a bit anyhow, and get some performance back since I had it on High.

(and I already tried the devs and their forums lol no luck with them. Steam proved far more fruitful.)

Thanks ♠.brT! I never would have fixed this issue without your help! :)

Command in user.cfg: r_TexturesStreamingMipBias -3
(^ I misspelled this part by putting a space before the number in my cfg)
Command in Steam: +exec user.cfg

I kept the HD pack on, but if I get any lower performance I'll just turn it off. Oh and in case anyone else runs into this thread. YES. This game needs a SSD. I used to have a pretty top of the line 3TB HDD, brand new, and it ran like poopy on it. So get yourself a SSD. ;)

Thanks again ♠.brT!

[♠.brT]

Awesome, glad i was able to help. Enjoy the game.