Slow load times in 3.16

I posted under technical support, but there was no answer - just more people with the same problem. Thus it is clearly a bug, and I will post it here as well to ensure it gets the necessary attention.

It was this post: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3189361. I wrote the following:

The problem is:

Load times used to be 2 seconds or so, but now they are around 10 seconds.

It is happening every time I change zones.

I have noticed some funny textures now and then (such as the mirage archer person on my back actually being the standard Duelist character with not armor (red shirt and all), for a second before it turns the standard green.
Also, I have noticed that it takes longer to load my hideout than a map. So there may be some issues with some of the textures there as well?

AFAICT other applications and games on the same drive has unchanged load times. So it must be a problem with PoE only.

I have restarted the client and the PC, but it didn't work.

I also tried changing hideout and MTX for portals (worth a shot I guess), but none of it worked. Still long load times - especially when returning to hideout.

Just bumping this. The problem persists with no change.

Same thing for me. I can hear what's happening in the zone, but the screen doesn't load. Never had issues like this before. Had ~2-3 second load time for years until 3.16.

Same problem here. 40 seconds are not uncommon when loading town, slightly less when loading hideout. This is making it very hard to do any kind of trading or player interaction. I hear invites, chat massages and party shutting down while still stuck on loading screen.

Edit: Seems to be related to Vulcan. Switching to DirectX11 solves the loading problem, but then there is lots of stuttering while playing instead. Graphics is integrated Intel Iris XE.

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Cool_Beers wrote:

Same thing for me. I can hear what's happening in the zone, but the screen doesn't load. Never had issues like this before. Had ~2-3 second load time for years until 3.16.

Yup. This is what I got too.
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So, GGG, it has been a while now. Would it be possible to give us some sort of recognition that you are aware of the problem, please?

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Cool_Beers wrote:

Same thing for me. I can hear what's happening in the zone, but the screen doesn't load. Never had issues like this before. Had ~2-3 second load time for years until 3.16.

Same

+1 Same issue. Hope it can get patched out soon. I also have some sort of weird looking flickers on some bosses (Izaro, Kitava ETC.).

Can attest to the loading time problems here. This is slower and worse than back when I loaded the game off of an HDD instead of an SSD.

I do wonder if it's also related to the game's memory leak bug, which is new/reintroduced with 3.16. It only takes a few hours before PoE's memory footprint has more than doubled. (or less than an hour if I go to the Rogue Harbour with everyone's MTX...)

I suffered from this. I wish there's a feature to disable other's MTX or maybe a feature that let you don't show other players in town.

ya its horrible a few leagues ago it was fine. i didnt play last league, but now holy crap is loading screens horrible im on a ssd also.