Loading screens taking a full minute to load

[Redgrave]

Still playing on special edition, but I think that something might have gotten changed in the code. It's now taking at LEAST 30 seconds and up to a full minute to load the game after stepping through a door to a new room. Not sure what to do, any tips on what to clean/delete to speed up performance?

thinking of deleting some save files in documents, but I'm nervous it might mess something up

[Lady Aeleanor]

Deleting save files won't fix anything. It's how the game is accessing the files. Try verifying game file integrity and see if that re-acquires missing files.

[Lady Aeleanor]

Also, during the time it's loading the game cell, do you still see the loading screen with the blurb about different aspects in the game? Or is it a completely blank (black) screen and THEN the game loading screen will appear after a time has passed? I experienced that in a previous play through and verified game files, which I think did solve the issue, since it seemed to stop.

[Ubik Valis]

Originally posted by Cloperella:

Still playing on special edition, but I think that something might have gotten changed in the code. It's now taking at LEAST 30 seconds and up to a full minute to load the game after stepping through a door to a new room. Not sure what to do, any tips on what to clean/delete to speed up performance?

thinking of deleting some save files in documents, but I'm nervous it might mess something up

Damn, that sounds pretty annoying, but not as awful as my Fallout 4 experience; 1-5 minutes, with 3-5 minutes more often than below 3 minutes.

My Skyrim experience in that regard has been a general average of max. 10 seconds, vanilla as well as modded, though I do run a very modest modlist.

[Redgrave]

Originally posted by Lady Aeleanor:

Also, during the time it's loading the game cell, do you still see the loading screen with the blurb about different aspects in the game? Or is it a completely blank (black) screen and THEN the game loading screen will appear after a time has passed? I experienced that in a previous play through and verified game files, which I think did solve the issue, since it seemed to stop.

Black screen.
The tip/tutorial screen disappears within 15 seconds, if it appears at all.
After that, I get a black screen (sometimes a voice or sound effect from the new area will play, but no visuals) which takes forever to go away and let me do anything.

[Redgrave]

It might also be worth noting that LOOT has completely refused to recognize my game for a few days, and I have no idea what to do to get that working again.

[Quevik]

How big is your most recent save file?

The longer you play the game (And the larger your save file gets) the longer it takes to load a new area. (Not just the save but any loading screen) This counts loading doors as well. You could try going into an interior space (Like a house) and using the wait command to make 30 days pass. (Have to use it repeatedly).

This will reset the various dungeons that you have cleared and free up some space in the savefile. I've lowered loading times by doing this on games that have significant progress. Results vary by game though.

[Redgrave]

Originally posted by Quevik:

How big is your most recent save file?

The longer you play the game (And the larger your save file gets) the longer it takes to load a new area. (Not just the save but any loading screen) This counts loading doors as well. You could try going into an interior space (Like a house) and using the wait command to make 30 days pass. (Have to use it repeatedly).

This will reset the various dungeons that you have cleared and free up some space in the savefile. I've lowered loading times by doing this on games that have significant progress. Results vary by game though.

I could try that today.
How do I check to see the size of a save file?

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by Cloperella:

Originally posted by Quevik:

How big is your most recent save file?

The longer you play the game (And the larger your save file gets) the longer it takes to load a new area. (Not just the save but any loading screen) This counts loading doors as well. You could try going into an interior space (Like a house) and using the wait command to make 30 days pass. (Have to use it repeatedly).

This will reset the various dungeons that you have cleared and free up some space in the savefile. I've lowered loading times by doing this on games that have significant progress. Results vary by game though.

I could try that today.
How do I check to see the size of a save file?

You should have a games folder, in there there will be a skyrim folder with the saves inside.

[Redgrave]

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

Originally posted by Cloperella:

I could try that today.
How do I check to see the size of a save file?

You should have a games folder, in there there will be a skyrim folder with the saves inside.

Oh, that, I actually found that yesterday. Deleted almost a year's worth of saves, but it changed nothing. Unless you're talking about something else.

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by Cloperella:

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

You should have a games folder, in there there will be a skyrim folder with the saves inside.

Oh, that, I actually found that yesterday. Deleted almost a year's worth of saves, but it changed nothing. Unless you're talking about something else.

No, you asked how you see the size o your save files, it should show you the size of those saves there.

[Lady Aeleanor]

In my post, I outlined a similar experience with absurdly long load times between game cells. Are you also experiencing this when fast traveling? I actually found that when it was doing those really long load times, I quit the game, restarted and usually things proceeded normally from there on. Load times returned to normal. Did you try game file integrity verification?

[Redgrave]

Originally posted by Lady Aeleanor:

In my post, I outlined a similar experience with absurdly long load times between game cells. Are you also experiencing this when fast traveling? I actually found that when it was doing those really long load times, I quit the game, restarted and usually things proceeded normally from there on. Load times returned to normal. Did you try game file integrity verification?

Haven't tried fast travel, but it does the same thing when I sleep.
I've verified the game more times than I can count.

[Quevik]

Originally posted by Cloperella:

Originally posted by alexander_dougherty:

You should have a games folder, in there there will be a skyrim folder with the saves inside.

Oh, that, I actually found that yesterday. Deleted almost a year's worth of saves, but it changed nothing. Unless you're talking about something else.

When you go to that game folder, you should see multiple files along the lines of:
Save600_blahblahblah | 12/18/2021 | ESS file | 12,000KB

That last number (My example says 12,000KB) what does yours say? (BTW, 12,000 is just a random number, yours will likely be higher)

[Redgrave]

Originally posted by Quevik:

Originally posted by Cloperella:

Oh, that, I actually found that yesterday. Deleted almost a year's worth of saves, but it changed nothing. Unless you're talking about something else.

When you go to that game folder, you should see multiple files along the lines of:
Save600_blahblahblah | 12/18/2021 | ESS file | 12,000KB

That last number (My example says 12,000KB) what does yours say? (BTW, 12,000 is just a random number, yours will likely be higher)

The most recent save, from yesterday, has a size of 10,207 kb

[Quevik]

Only 10,207? Yeah then that's not the issue and everything i said is worthless. Mine gets up to 50-60,000 kb. (Heavily modded game)