Fix Long Startup Time

If the game is taking a very long time to load (stuck on the small "Assassin's Creed Odyssey" image for several minutes), consider turning off hyperthreading in your BIOS to shorten the load time.

Turn off Hyperthreading in BIOS

Posting this as a guide in case it helps others. Credit to the people below. Don't forget to turn hyperthreading back on when you're done playing Odyssey!

If the game is taking a very long time to load (stuck on the small "Assassin's Creed Odyssey" image for several minutes), consider turning off hyperthreading in your BIOS to shorten the load time.

Stuck on this image after launching the game:

Turning off hyperthreading in the BIOS fixed the load time issue

See discussions:

• Loading time on SSD
  

  Originally posted by Easy Tiger:

  I installed Windows 10 on a seperate drive and it's still an issue, so not just a Windows 11 problem. Definitely looking like it's because of microcode updates (I've updated my BIOS recently which came with a microcode update). Turning Hyperthreading off fixed it for me. Intel i5-14600K

• 2.30 minutes startup time every time on pc. How to fix it?
  

  Originally posted by Errun:

  This is a problem specific to 13th and 14th generation i7 processors. The problem appeared after the May BIOS update. I've posted the same thing in other threads, and people have confirmed this is the problem.

  Originally posted by Easy Tiger:

  Disabling Hyperthreading fixed it for me however this will likely impact CPU performance