Long loading times

I am from closed beta,and i can confirm the loading up of the game+maps has greatly increased and takes alot more longer to load now.

I tend to alt tab on the GGG load screen and it generally loads about 10 seconds after I check the task manager to see if it's "responding" (which it isn't).

Hi everybody

i'v got exaclty the same probleme , my loading screen are so slow ( 15 - 20 sec ) i do the same technique as zhyr alt task manager , a mate mine with an lower computer hasn't got this problem !

can i fix it bymyself or just wait an fix game


thankx ( sorry for my bad english )

Game run from HDD, average start time is: 62 000 ms
Game run from RAM disk, average start time is 16 500 ms
Start time: 10 launches, the timer is GetTickCount API, first at app start and second at login screen. Game window is minimized, at login screen cpu usage is less 2%.

PC configuration:
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
CPU: HexaCore AMD Phenom II X6 Black Edition 1090T, 3600 MHz (18 x 200)
Motherboard: MSI 990FXA-GD65 (MS-7640)
Memory: 16370 Mb, Corsair Dominator 4 Gb x 2, Corsair XMS3 4 Gb x 2
GPU: N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II 2GD5/OC
HDD: WDC WD20 EARX-00PASB0
SSD: INTEL SS DSC2CW180A3
PSU: FSP EPSILON 700


I make analyze of every application action at start and i find main problems: very many operations with windows registry and loading game resources.

Recommendations for users to accelerate PoE start:
- Make defragmentation of system partition, partition with a game and windows registry;
- Move game to SSD or RAM disk;
- Install windows or/and game to SSD.

Recommendations for PoE programming Team to accelerate PoE start:
- Optimize the resources in Content.ggpk for fast reading in one step;
- Don't use windows registry for game preferences, use bin file in home directory;
- Read all resources per one API launch, not blocks by 32kb - it's very, very slow;
- Read all information needed for game from windows registry once at first start of game, then save all this information in one bin file, and use it at game start for fast loading. After hardware or other configuration changing or any game errors at start - just update this file:
- Use few cores of CPU.

P.S. I have the full logs of game start from RAM and HDD in cvs and xml formats with timestamps and description of all operations. Where i can send it?

P.P.S. From RAM disk game levels loading in 2-5 seconds. It's slow. I think, if PC have many memory, the game must load all resources in memory and don't read it's from disk. Or it can be in game options.

I've also been having infrequent long loading screens during zone transitions, ever since I started playing during closed beta.

First off, they are not caused by HDD->RAM loading times. My ggpk file is somewhat fragmented and sometimes I do get some excess HDD access during loading screens for that. I'm okay with this.

But the problem is different - after HDD activity stops, I'm still stuck in loading screen for a long period of time, for no apparent reason. Sometimes I even hear sounds of my party members fighting in the zone I'm still "loading".

Also worth mentioning, during closed beta these issues were so severe on european gateway, I had to play on american gateway instead (I'm physically located in Finland). Now european gateway is playable, but I still get the occasional long loading screen.


edit: I have tried the -gc 2 (is that an alternate garbage collector?), it seemed to change the loading patterns somewhat but didn't fix this issue.

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epeli wrote:

First off, they are not caused by HDD->RAM loading times. My ggpk file is somewhat fragmented and sometimes I do get some excess HDD access during loading screens for that. I'm okay with this.

Does you read my post?

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SunBlaze wrote:

Game run from HDD, average start time is: 62 000 ms
Game run from RAM disk, average start time is 16 500 ms

4 times faster from RAM. You really think HDD does not slowing start?
Half of all operations is reading resources blocks by 32kb and second half - is registry access.
Counter of all operations is 65489.

I'm getting ridiculous loading times.

Starting up the game takes about 3 minutes.

Loading new zones takes 30 seconds - a minute.

Back in closed beta it was about 5 times faster loading everything.

WHen i start the Game it loads like 2 Minutes and if i load a map it takes very long time too.

I wonder why this happens because my PC is very good.

I see Friends of me loading the game in seconds and i just dont know why it loads so long.



And actually there should be some fixes with the spells. some spells are causing heavy lags like fire totem. drops to 10 fps. maybe make an option to reduce the graphics for spells i dunno.

i7 920
gtx 580
6gb 1600mhz ram

Pretty long loading times.

I also get long GGG splash screen load times, takes 2-3 minutes.
Loading maps take 5-12 seconds

Running 2 raptor HDD
Gtx 670 MSI over clocked
16GB vengeance ram overclocked to 1700 mhz
quad core i-7 extream oc to 2.7 ghz