sorudo.9054 Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 i sometimes play ESO and fallout 4, i need to load a ton more yet it's loaded in a fraction of the time GW2 does. you can blame the computer but i would suggest blaming it on GW2 for the most part, it's slower then even the most ambitious games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donutdude.9582 Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Two questions: 1. Are you running Windows 10 with the latest feature patch? 2. Is Guild Wars 2 installed on a solid state drive (SSD)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elva.6372 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 > @"Selminus.1490" said: > How are they this bad? I can run the game on max settings if I want but if I want to change zones, I have to go afk and mill around the house while I stare at a painting. What is up with this? Umm, what kind of PC you have? I don't have an SSD but my loading screens are rarely more than 30-45 seconds and more often 10-20 seconds. A seven year old Dell PC running Linux for the Win! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lagrangewei.8516 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 windows can also cache the game in ram if you have a ton of it unused. ram and ssd upgrade are worth it if loading time really egg u. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojorne.2175 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 well... for me it takes 30 seconds to past any load screens... have you checked your pc's memory and virtual memory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlippyCheeze.5483 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 > @"lagrangewei.8516" said: > windows can also cache the game in ram if you have a ton of it unused. ram and ssd upgrade are worth it if loading time really egg u. Yah, and the RAM is honestly the better investment, because it is still orders of magnitude faster than SSD. 32GB of RAM will make the game vastly faster. Not instant, but ... that is enough that it rarely needs to reach out to storage for anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalkingwolf.6035 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 > @"sevenDEADLY.5281" said: > Invest in an SSD. Problem solved. not really. some of the loading screens are really long in this game. especially into Lily of the Elon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albadaran.1283 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 I don't think its the RAM, or HD. It's Always specific maps that take tons of time, eg. Divinity Reach. Why do we have to load everything when we only need a small portion of the map? And why wait for loading until we access? Just load it on entering the game (I have enough ram, yes), without players and fill it with players while accessing the maps shops, banks, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
costepj.5120 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 The only loading screen that has taken any noticeable amount of time for me was Sandswept Isles when it was first introduced. But that was an acknowledged bug and has since been fixed. Oh and for some reason, returning to Lion's Arch after participating in an Activity is a bit slow, but as that's only a once a day thing it's no big deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardid.7203 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 You need an Asura to help you. The headbutts don't repair computers. :tongue: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenDEADLY.5281 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 > @"Stalkingwolf.6035" said: > > @"sevenDEADLY.5281" said: > > Invest in an SSD. Problem solved. > > not really. some of the loading screens are really long in this game. especially into Lily of the Elon Yes really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalkingwolf.6035 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 when > @"sevenDEADLY.5281" said: > > @"Stalkingwolf.6035" said: > > > @"sevenDEADLY.5281" said: > > > Invest in an SSD. Problem solved. > > > > not really. some of the loading screens are really long in this game. especially into Lily of the Elon > > Yes really. when the loading times are bad with SSD, it is unplayable with a HDD. i think the game has other problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obtena.7952 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 > @"Stalkingwolf.6035" said: > when > @"sevenDEADLY.5281" said: > > > @"Stalkingwolf.6035" said: > > > > @"sevenDEADLY.5281" said: > > > > Invest in an SSD. Problem solved. > > > > > > not really. some of the loading screens are really long in this game. especially into Lily of the Elon > > > > Yes really. > > when the loading times are bad with SSD, it is unplayable with a HDD. > i think the game has other problems. You don't really get it ... it's not the game. I have an SSD ... my load times are fine. It CAN'T be a game problem if I'm good and you aren't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauried.5608 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 Where you are going to and the number of players in the area that you are going too also affects the loading time , as the game has to render all the players standing in the area where you will appear before the loading finishes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnus Godrik.5841 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 SSD all the way. M.2 is faster than that. And if you really wanna go hardcore get an NVME SSD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlippyCheeze.5483 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 > @"Stalkingwolf.6035" said: > > @"sevenDEADLY.5281" said: > > Invest in an SSD. Problem solved. > > not really. some of the loading screens are really long in this game. especially into Lily of the Elon Yes. Those are mostly delays as the server sends the list of models to dynamically load, and those are loaded from storage. Can't plan ahead for which monsters, players, etc, are in a location. This is why the smart way to deal with this problem is "step one, turn on `-mapLoadInfo` and find out where the delay is", rather than just "buy an SSD lololol" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaunicorn.9317 Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 > @"SlippyCheeze.5483" said: This is why the smart way to deal with this problem is "step one, turn on `-mapLoadInfo` and find out where the delay is" Also, try repairing your client? Do a clean start of your game too? I have an SSD with a decent machine. And my loading screens are less than 3 seconds in any map. It was getting tedious at LA during Halloween, but all ok after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharterforGw.3149 Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 If you have an SSD already, make sure your OS is on it, it will cut down on a lot of the background traffic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carighan.6758 Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 > @"TigStripe.2379" said: > 5-10 seconds is excessively long? For what, putting on pants? For originally loading in a third of that time, it **is** very long. Also if you check the details, most of that time is spent waiting. I suspect the server **first** has to confirm your position in the new map, and for some reason this seems to happen very slowly. **Then** your client starts loading the resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carighan.6758 Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 > @"TigStripe.2379" said: > 5-10 seconds is excessively long? For what, putting on pants? For originally loading in a third of that time, it **is** very long. Also if you check the details, most of that time is spent waiting. I suspect the server **first** has to confirm your position in the new map, and for some reason this seems to happen very slowly. **Then** your client starts loading the resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigStripe.2379 Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 > @"Carighan.6758" said: >> For originally loading in a third of that time, it **is** very long. First-world problems. 5-10 seconds isn't an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlippyCheeze.5483 Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 > @"Carighan.6758" said: > > @"TigStripe.2379" said: > > 5-10 seconds is excessively long? For what, putting on pants? > > For originally loading in a third of that time, it **is** very long. Also if you check the details, most of that time is spent waiting. I suspect the server **first** has to confirm your position in the new map, and for some reason this seems to happen very slowly. **Then** your client starts loading the resources. Nah, a bunch of resources are static on the map, and loaded automatically by the client. Check out your own `-mapLoadInfo` and you will see that. (You can also see evidence by way of occasionally catching a glimpse of, say, a rich candy corn mining node, which then vanishes, outside the holiday. Those are statically positioned in the client, and hidden or shown dynamically by the server.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmoredVehicle.2849 Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 Ran a few map tests here and there, most of my loading times are an average of 5-9 seconds with a few PoF maps exceptions taking 16-17 seconds and this is with a normal HDD. A slow load may be caused by a number of things, most common ones are bad sectors/read errors, and background activity. Another possible cause is low Ram (which I doubt it's the OP's case but worth mentioning), if you have let's say 4GB ram and running more than just GW2, there might be a chance the OS is writing to the pagefile. It might help us a bit more if OP shares some information about his system. He mentioned he has an SSD which helps, but what about the rest of the system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radiobiology.6185 Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 Because Guild Wars 2 is the most poorly optimized mmorpg to date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egrimm Van Horstmann.7921 Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 I have max settings and maybe a five second wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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