Seriously, I don't have an old computer. My rig handles pretty much EVERY game thrown at it. But DA:I sends me back to the days of the commodore 64 in terms of load times. I might as well have a good novel nearby while I play because when it loads initially it's like watching paint dry.
Are they ever going to fix this?
The load times aren't really an issue for me, it's the load screen after another load screen that does it. I'll boot up the game and load a save and the loading screen with the codex entries will show up for all of 5 seconds, before disappearing and bringing up the blank loading screen.
System?
AMD Phenom II 965
Radeon HIS 280x 3gb
8gb RAM
That's pretty much all you need to know really.
LOL Like I said - reminds me of the old C64 days where I'd read a book or something while it loaded up a game. Bring on the Windham Classics!
I barely have time to read the text and I use HDD and play on a laptop so...
Might be you running too many / CPU intensive programs in the background? I dunno.
Edit: Oh you're talking about the initial load. At this point I wouldn't expect a fix since it's related to underlying problems DAI has with its structure. It's not that big of a deal really... hardly worth a fix. It's only a dozen or so seconds longer than many other games' load times. The only load times that matter are zone transitions and reloads and those are very reasonable.
AMD Phenom II 965
Radeon HIS 280x 3gb
8gb RAM
That's pretty much all you need to know really.
Isn't HDD speed highly relevant?
Mine is slow, and I have an initial load time after clicking Continue of, like, 2 minutes. The fact I have the horsepower to get smooth frame rates with everything maxed has no effect on load times.
Isn't HDD speed highly relevant?
Mine is slow, and I have an initial load time after clicking Continue of, like, 2 minutes. The fact I have the horsepower to get smooth frame rates with everything maxed has no effect on load times.
To some degree it is, but most hard drives people are using these days are either SSD (which is a huge difference) or ones running at 7200RPM.
Of course if you're on an SSD you're going to probably notice a speed difference. However, I've been warned off on installing my copy of DAI on my SSD as the person who told me the lag issue is because of the DRM in the game which does alot of read and writes to the hard drive, as a result it'll significantly reduce the lifespan of the SSD.
And beside that, any developer who's producing a game expecting people to install it on SSD to get decent performance.... is being hugely unrealistic. Most people still only use SSD to host their OS and basic programs. The lifespan and expense of an SSD still puts it out of reach for people to quickly and cheaply replace it if it dies.
Anyways, long story short...
No - it shouldn't make a difference what my speed of drive is. Not unless I was using an old PATA drive, which would be in a computer WAY below spec.
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I play on Xbox One, and yeah, load times are painful. The worst thing is that the text displayed to pass the time goes away in like 20 seconds, then there's a longer period with nothing but a black screen and the loading icon flashing on the lower right.
I thought the thread was started by a console player. I guess if the problem extends to less-than-perfect PCs, then it's worse than I thought.
1. AMD Phenom II 965 not the rig that handles pretty much EVERY game. Frostbite loves 6-8 core cpu's and if you didn't activate mantle you should, massive performance boost overall.
2. Install the game on SSD. I tested load time on my hdd 7200 it was ~1.5-2 minutes on ssd 5-15max seconds, huge difference.
3. Rumors that ssd's have short life spawn is just rumors, he probably outlive your hdd. Just stick to manufacturers like crucial, plextor, intel, samsung. I don't recommend any ssd's from OCZ (Vector, Vertex) and models Samsung 840 EVO and Plextor M6 Pro.
I've noticed since the latest patch that my game takes a while to load up on it's initial startup. Almost 1.5 minutes. When I quit ----> restart though it loads up much quicker.
Of course if you're on an SSD you're going to probably notice a speed difference. However, I've been warned off on installing my copy of DAI on my SSD as the person who told me the lag issue is because of the DRM in the game which does alot of read and writes to the hard drive, as a result it'll significantly reduce the lifespan of the SSD.
The executable is rewritten in the RAM. I don't think Windows allows running programs to rewrite themselves on the disk.
The first time I load up the game it takes a few minutes. After that initial load, everything is smooth.
The executable is rewritten in the RAM. I don't think Windows allows running programs to rewrite themselves on the disk.
Correct. Not to mention that a SSD has several data blocks which the claimer seems to completely neglect. And since I have the game installed on a SSD I can already confirm that there's not much going on with the bytewrites. So don't you worry about installing the game on a SSD 
Because of the DRM rumours I installed DA:I on my 3TB Seagate 7200 rpm drive, rather than the 512 gig SSD that houses my Steam games directory. So I can't tell anything about whether the game loads much faster on SSD. But on my Seagate HDD...yeah, the load times are rather, erm, noticeable. The rest of the machine is an i7 / GTX660 Ti, OS is Windows 7.
Maybe it's just a lot of data being loaded / processed each time? I seem to remember that something like this caused Bloodborne's notoriously long loading times.
I have heard that Frostbite games load slow because of the unpacking it does in each area loaded, every time. I'm not sure there's much you can do to speed it up.
Load times when I change areas have become painful since patch 7. They were always fast previously, but now, they take forever. I'm also noticing a lot less stability overall with more frequent DirectX crashes and CTDs without error messages. Dunno.
Loading times are quite big on PS3 too, but I don't mind them, I just grap smartphone and start reading BSN or scrolling tumblr.
Been searching for this topic since I decided to give DAI another chance. One of the things I hated when I quit playing it early this year was the ridiculous long loading time, both starting the game and in some area transitions, cutscenes sequences.
It is still there. I can take a nap during these loading periods. Yes, the 3 cards are not on screen for too long, some can hardly be read, but the black screen that follows with the small Inquisition loading icon on the bottom right is highly narcoleptic.
Been searching for this topic since I decided to give DAI another chance. One of the things I hated when I quit playing it early this year was the ridiculous long loading time, both starting the game and in some area transitions, cutscenes sequences.
It is still there. I can take a nap during these loading periods. Yes, the 3 cards are not on screen for too long, some can hardly be read, but the black screen that follows with the small Inquisition loading icon on the bottom right is highly narcoleptic.
Yeah it's really off putting. It's the only modern game that I have that takes THAT freaking long to start up. there's absolutely no good reason for it.
Seriously, I don't have an old computer. My rig handles pretty much EVERY game thrown at it. But DA:I sends me back to the days of the commodore 64 in terms of load times. I might as well have a good novel nearby while I play because when it loads initially it's like watching paint dry.
Are they ever going to fix this?
My first playthrough was on ps3.
When loading screen started, I got me a coffee. And with "got me" I mean... I planted it, grew it, reaped it, dried it, brewed it..... and come back.
And still loading.
hat DLC and mods (if any) are you running? The more stuff you have in the game, the longer it takes to load and, if you happen to run CE, remove the WIP section and, make sure you are using the most up to date table (or at least table 45 if you insist on having God Mode and, only use it for that and crafting or shop inventory, not any of the other stuff in 45 as much of it causes problems now.)
I run off an SSD drive but, that's a small difference. The bigger factor is the type of RAM and, the speed and number of cores in you CPU. I'm lucky to read once sentence while loading but that's on a 4.2 gHz 8 core CPU and 32 GB DDR3 so, it had best not let me read a whole paragraph on that LOL.
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