Why does this game take f*cking forever to load?

[Longrod von Hugendong]

It takes 20 minutes just to load into the main menu, if at all, and 15-20 minutes to load a match, if at all. It cannot possibly be my rig. I have really good specs and only SSD storage. I have tried installing it over and over again with no luck.

[Chedo]

After the V10 update, the game hangs for me as well.

Disappointing.

[KDM 16AAB]

If your running Squad from a Non-SSD drive, try defragging it. Load times for me are between 2-5 minutes on first load when joining a server, and now and again after a big update like this I will do a defrag. Windows store is worse for this, but Steam is also not exactly the most contiguous when it comes to placing files on your HDD/SSD

[BlackLabel]

Mhh....i use:

1: SSD only for the OS and smaller application ( TS, Skype the works )

2: dedicated SSD for SQUAD and i mean squad only

win win, loadingtimes went from abysmal to aceptable to rather fast

[Meatsac]

If you've turned off texture streaming, it's loading all the textures into memory (takes a little time) but it offers better performance. You'll need at least 16gb of sys ram to turn this off and not have issues.

[BlackLabel]

Originally posted by Bezo:

Originally posted by Meatsac:

If you've turned off texture streaming, it's loading all the textures into memory (takes a little time) but it offers better performance. You'll need at least 16gb of sys ram to turn this off and not have issues.

Ive got this on and its loading fast with my SSD and my 1070.

also this +1

[juice2142]

it takes about 4 min for my game to load to the loading screen. first couple times i thought it was locked up. i still have never been able to load into a match. it literally never loads into a game, even after 10 min. I cannot even close the game, it's hung that bad. This is a huge problem

[Chedo]

A little update, the game stopped hanging after I verified the game cache. Dumbest solution ever, but it worked.

[laff]

I have a 1TB 7200RPM HDD and the menu loads in under 2 minutes. It does take longer now that it's loading some scene with models/terrain/fx instead of just a background image though.

Originally posted by Chedo:

A little update, the game stopped hanging after I verified the game cache. Dumbest solution ever, but it worked.

Not really, that's one of the first things people should try for issues with Steam games.