Loading times still not fixed?

[Fencer]

So I got a new pc and wanted to give the game another try. What the hell is wrong with these loading screens? I have to wait around 1 or 2 minutes everytime the game is in its loading screen. I know that there are issues with ryzen processors and I am using a Ryzen 5900X. But considering the fact that the game is out for that long, why the hell is this still an issue? The "standard ryzen fix" does not work in my case, because there is no "steam_emu.ini-thingy" in the folder. Sorry for the rant, but this really drives me nuts...

[Orion Invictus]

Not fixed, no. The workaround I saw that reduces loading times is to restrict the game's affinity to only the first 4 physical cores of your CPU, but the reduction is just that - a reduction. It's not a fix, and you'll still have much longer loading times than you should.

[Fencer]

Thanks. I will give it a try

[Nestorfield]

no, suddenly i remember why i delete this game in the first place

[Dampflos]

Here's a small script to automate setting the cpu affinity for game process:
PowerShell "$Process = Get-Process AVGame-Win64-Shipping; $Process.ProcessorAffinity=85"
pause

(the pause is just there, so you can see if that command resulted in an error)

Just put that in a new Text Document and rename it to something like Vampyr.bat. Now you just need to Alt Tab out of the game, like on the saveslot selection screen, run that .bat file once and the game will use the 1st 4 physical cores. (The value 85 is 1010101 in binary, enabling the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th core, assuming every other core is a logical core from intel's hyper threading/HT or amd's simultaneous multithreading/SMT)

This at least reduces the freeze to about 10 seconds for me, where it seemed to randomly completely freeze before.

[Dampflos]

And about that steam_emu.ini-thingy. I don't have that either, and after downloading that file, it's clear that it's a configuration file for the pirated version of the game, as there's a crack section among other things. Running Steam in offline mode and preventing Vampyr from accessing the internet with firewall rules does not fix the issue. Once again the honest customer gets the worst product.

[Fencer]

So I actually found a solution: just activating cores 1 to 4 for this specific game workes wonders. Still got loading screens, but loading is done very fast