Load Times When Porting Horrid!

Recommended this game to numerous friends. They stopped playing due to mindless delays porting to town and different locations.

Just sitting there for over 45 seconds (or much longer) waiting.

Playing a game for an hour and spending collectively 15 minutes of it staring at a loading screen is pointless.

Needless to say they quit.

This is the #1 issue in my opinion that needs to be addressed.

Posting this with peace and love :-)

The loading time are so horrendous at times, that I have time to find the related post on forum and reply to it.

Still loading my hideout.

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Bump. Also, they could reduce map sizes by ~30% and use the freed up RAM to store the town / hideout in memory all the time, so there is no loading screen. Very much like at the beginning of act 2 where the town is just part of the map, so teleporting in and out is instantaneous.

Edit: on high-end systems they could also preload adjacent maps in the background, so the entire game is load screen free, not just when going to town / hideout and back to map.

Show some system spec that could relate to loadtime please, otherwise we would think you play on a 5400 RPM hard drive with 4GB of RAM potatoe. Loadtime are really quick on a good computer, it's not supposed to take more then 5sec unless you just installed new drivers and shaders need to be cached (only happen once).

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Warrax#2850 a écrit :

Show some system spec that could relate to loadtime please, otherwise we would think you play on a 5400 RPM hard drive with 4GB of RAM potatoe. Loadtime are really quick on a good computer, it's not supposed to take more then 5sec unless you just installed new drivers and shaders need to be cached (only happen once).

I have Threadripper 2950 with 16 cores and 128Gb of memory. While my graphics card is 2080, which isn't top tier; that shouldn't affect loading times.

Still, every other loading screen (incl. into my hideout) takes over half a minute.

My machine is good enough to play other recent games without problems, so it's definitely an issue with-in POE engine.

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MaxCarnage#2780 a écrit :

Recommended this game to numerous friends. They stopped playing due to mindless delays porting to town and different locations.

Just sitting there for over 45 seconds (or much longer) waiting.

Playing a game for an hour and spending collectively 15 minutes of it staring at a loading screen is pointless.

Needless to say they quit.

This is the #1 issue in my opinion that needs to be addressed.

Posting this with peace and love :-)

The issue is you are loading into a shared town. Especially at launch of a league the town is full of players, all with a bunch of flashy MTX you would otherwise never need to load.

Since these devs love quick bandaid solutions instead of addressing real problems: Give us an option to disable showing MTX.

In 0.1 instead of a long load screen, it would put you in town with no background/npcs/players loaded in. You could run around on a blank screen using your mini map. You could still open character and inventory screens, click on an npc and identify/disenchant/sell items. Give us that back if you can't fix this nonsense. Literally anything is better than us getting these long loading screens.

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Warrax#2850 a écrit :

Show some system spec that could relate to loadtime please, otherwise we would think you play on a 5400 RPM hard drive with 4GB of RAM potatoe. Loadtime are really quick on a good computer, it's not supposed to take more then 5sec unless you just installed new drivers and shaders need to be cached (only happen once).

It's not just teleporting. You need to run around to find different NPCs for disenchant, smithing, weapons vendor, magic stuff vendor, identify, quest item NPC, etc. A game loop is supposed to be part of the gameplay. This is not gameplay, just chores. But unlike doing the dishes, this is a chore that is optional. It's just so much easier to not play the game, than to play it.

2*5=10 sec load just to identify and sell useless crap is exactly 10 sec longer than what it should be.

Don't wanna bother with the technicalities? Here's a free tip for Jonathan: make all items drop identified and let me access my stash when out of combat (without moving through portals). Even Sacred 2 has that and that's a 20 year old game.

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Warrax#2850 a écrit :

Show some system spec that could relate to loadtime please, otherwise we would think you play on a 5400 RPM hard drive with 4GB of RAM potatoe. Loadtime are really quick on a good computer, it's not supposed to take more then 5sec unless you just installed new drivers and shaders need to be cached (only happen once).

You'd only assume that long loading screens in poe 2 are related to bad hardware if you don't leave your own bubble.

There are a lot of players reporting this issue lately, in my case i load the game in 5~6 seconds most of the time, but sometimes for whatever reason it takes way longer than that, and it's something specific to poe 2.

Idk what happens with this forum sometimes man.. Why there are so many "defensive" replies when someone posts about having issues with the game?? And they're always like "I'm not having any problem, this 100% means that it's on your end." I never seen this before in other game communities..

Same problem here, i got running gears for also 2 minutes, way too much. I bought the kaalguran pack for 90$, but i'm so discomforted that i asked the refound. Can't pay 90$ to not play the game and not having a solution tom this problem. My rig is not an absolute beast ofc, but i have a 2080Ti with an I7 6800K and 16GB ram, but i'm also running the game to pure minimum settings...i mean....it is like to play to D2 resurrected.

I really want to play and to help founding this game, but not if these are the terms.

I am almost sure its to do with other players. They need to add graphic options for toning down complexity/geometry and stuff of other players especially in down, when you go there it instantly halves performance.