Why does this game load so long?

[Fori]

I'm 120 hours in and loving it but I don't get why it takes ages to ge to the helicarrier?

The game is buttery smooth after the next gen upgrade but this is still an issue and has always been. Ofcourse we're talking SSD here and Total War Warhammer is loading faster than this :(

[Nixxes_Official]

Hi,

Sorry to hear you are having this problem. The primary contributor to load times on Avengers on PC is shader compilation. Typically this causes fairly high CPU utilization on first load, and longer loading times, after which repeated loads will be much faster.

Can you check that you do not have 'Shader Cache' turned off in your NVIDIA driver 3D Settings? That would cause loads to consistently be slower. Please let us know whether this helps!

[Fori]

Checked it. Shader cache is on. Thanks for replying :)

[Nixxes_Official]

So odd, thanks for checking. During these loads, can you see what your CPU utilization is like? And is it consistent?

[Conor]

Do you have Nvidia filters on? During the load time I was having super high memory and disk usage. I turned off my filters before loading into the game and this seemed to resolve the issue for me. I'm not using an SSD and my load times are around 16 seconds now.

You can turn the filters back on once you get past the loading screen.

[Fori]

Originally posted by Nixxes_Official:

So odd, thanks for checking. During these loads, can you see what your CPU utilization is like? And is it consistent?

Just checked it.

Load times: 1:07 Minute from "Play" in launcher till main screen where I can start the iniative
1:14 from clicking on iniative till I'm on the helicarrier.

And you are exactly right. My CPU is going on 55%, that means 8 cores of my 16 Core Ryzen 3700X are running at nearly 100% load with around 4.19 Ghz calculating god knows what ;)

It's the same for both occasions. CPU always spikes.

I'd be happy to help if your developers wanna run some advanced diagnosis with debug logs or something.

[Fori]

Originally posted by Conor:

Do you have Nvidia filters on? During the load time I was having super high memory and disk usage. I turned off my filters before loading into the game and this seemed to resolve the issue for me. I'm not using an SSD and my load times are around 16 seconds now.

You can turn the filters back on once you get past the loading screen.

I don't use any filters. I don't even have Geforce Experience installed. Only the clean driver installation.

[Nixxes_Official]

Ok, that certainly seems like the shader cache is not working for you, which is unexpected. I will make the development team aware and I'll follow up again if they require additional information.

[The Flash]

Originally posted by Nixxes_Official:

Ok, that certainly seems like the shader cache is not working for you, which is unexpected. I will make the development team aware and I'll follow up again if they require additional information.

Please think about adding a FOV slider into the game.
The game needs further optimisation too.

[Fori]

Originally posted by Nixxes_Official:

Ok, that certainly seems like the shader cache is not working for you, which is unexpected. I will make the development team aware and I'll follow up again if they require additional information.

Thank you!

[Bruce Killis]

Hi, I just posted about this in general chat, I'm ALSO having really long load times, and I do have Shader Cache ON in the Nvidia Settings. It's a good 3-5 mins from double clicking the icon to getting into the game. I don't remember the load times being this bad at launch, so maybe something changed. Oh I'm running off an SSD.

[Fori]

This is still happening after latest update. Any update on your side?