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 I play Mass Effect 2 on the PC. Normally the load times have been very good, nothing to worry about. However after playing through ME3, I picked up on some part-way ME2 saves to finish for import and suddenly load times are horrendus. As in, the 'loading' movie *.bik (eg: changing floors in the Normandy, loading mission areas) plays through about five-to-seven times in a row. I go from the Captain's Quaters to the CIC and it takes just over a minute!

I've tried searching online for the issue and solutions, but maybe I'm not using the right keywords. Anyone else experienced this and able to help? I'm not using a custom coelasced.ini or anything, just standard game +DLC. Considering that after a loadscreen I'm generally launched straight into battle with mission screens I can't really get away with leaving to do some drawing or make a cup of tea for a lot of them.

Modifié par Karsciyin, 14 avril 2012 - 06:12 .


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...strangely, while doing Miranda's loyalty mission, getting flanked by a pair of vanguards, and dying... the reload from last save was almost instant. It's like there's some code glitch that believe I really, really love those *.bik files.

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Never having had anything similar myself, and uncertain whether I've seen any messages here naming similar symptoms, all I can suggest is limit the search to inside of the forums here when designing your Google or Yahoo search by adding this:

site:social.bioware.com

Do not attempt to rely on the site's own local finder. It was designed as a badly broken tool and never fixed.

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Defrag and run a virus/malware scan. Then try booting Windows with a clean startup to see if there are any background processes slowing things down. The reason reloading is quicker than a first time load or loading a new area is because the reload data has already been cached into memory.

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Very common issue with dual core processors. I had this myself on my old PC with an AMD Athlon x2 6000+.

If you have a dual core processor then you have to change the processor affinity to one core after launching the game and then set it back to 2. Since doing this everytime you want to play can get annoying, someone made a piece of software that does all this for you.

Mass Affinity

The game will still need to display a loading animation in its entirety before going to the next level, but that's a design oversight on BioWare's part. I fixed this myself by replacing all loading screens with short custom made ones.

Modifié par Fredvdp, 14 avril 2012 - 09:12 .