Loading times

[PXL]

So its been a few years since the game came out and I'm now running fast M2 NVME drives. But the load times are still way too long for what content the game plays at each load point.

Any reason the Source engine loads so slowly even with super fast drives?

[Clantis]

oh yeah uh, for some reason this game has animations that play in the loading screen, and they each last about a second, and the game isn't actually loading when they're playing. plus theres just alot of things it could do to make it go faster but doesn't for some reason.

honestly kinda horrid design, you can fix it with the "SOURCE AUTO RECORD/SAR" speedrunning plugin, but it does alot of stuff in the background designed for speedrunners that might interfere with gameplay or cause it to like pop up random speedrunning splits and stuff. its been a long time since i've used it so i cant really be of any help configuring to turn all the random speedrun stuff off. BUT if you do use it, this is probably the game that will load the fastest out of all valve games besides goldsrc games. literally loads in like under a second its nuts how much faster they could've been.

sar_fast_load_preset set to like 4 i think would automatically give you the most optimal settings for load times. put it in an autoexec.cfg file inside the games Portal 2/portal2/cfg folder.

[Clantis]

Originally posted by Clantis:

oh yeah uh, for some reason this game has animations that play in the loading screen, and they each last about a second, and the game isn't actually loading when they're playing.

made a quick comparison to show how much faster it is with sar. https://youtu.be/Ve-4LhFU2tc

[PXL]

Hey thank you for taking the time to post this up - very much appreciated

[Cletus Moonshine]

Hey I guess this is kinda related but every time I open up Portal 2. When the game opens up, it brings me back to desktop and the game closes. I tried restarting my computer and the same thing happens again and again and again. HELP.