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#1
Beowulf28

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Is anyone else getting like 1 minute load times on the normandy? Even when I die or dock on a planet I'm getting super long load times.

Steam version btw.

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KevinJackson

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Yes, I'm also having them, as are more than a few others I know.



Some are having them take ten seconds and even less.



I don't understand why ours are 1+ minutes. The shortest I've timed them at is ~40 seconds.



It seems like a Steam issue?

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dontcallmeshirly

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I have the PC retail, boxed from Gamestop, and my load times are incredibly bad as well. I don't have the sweetest rig in the universe, but I can play Crysis at 1920x1200 with most effects dialed up - I'd say it can handle ME2 and loading times.



Interestingly, I've noticed that the hard drives aren't pegged when the loading takes so long - clearly that's not the bottleneck. I'm wondering if it's a graphics card issue, or if there's an error state that it must recover from constantly when changing maps, thus causing a lot of memory shuffling.



In fact, I'm willing to bet that it has something to do with the character models themselves - anytime I go into a screen that displays characters outside the map world (squad status, assign squad points, etc.) there is a noticeable delay - for reference I'm using an ancient 8800GT with 195.62 drivers, and I just saw there are 196.21 drivers available so I'll try that.



Any mods want to weigh in on long load times?

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samusfan

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Just thought I'd add my own observations here.



I'm getting the extremely long load times on my own PC. Takes about a 30 seconds to 1 minute to load a given "map", which is *way* too long. Here are my specs:



intel E6750 Core2Duo

4gb DDR2

ATI 5850 HD w/ 9.12 drivers

Windows 7 64bit Ultimate



Now my roomie's PC loads about 20x faster than my PC, definitely how the game SHOULD be loading. Her specs:



Athlon X2 6400+

4gb DDR2

Nvidia 8800GT w/ latest drivers

Windows XP 32bit



I hope they get this sorted out in a patch, or somebody finds a workaround. The game is playable this way, but it's a HUGE annoyance.

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Ellestor

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I did two playthroughs with 1-2 minute waits at every loading screen (not to mention 5-10 second hangs every time I clicked something in the Weapon Loadout screen or opened Team Status) before I found a fix for this.
  • Run Mass Effect 2.
  • Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Windows Task Manager.
  • Go to the Processes tab.
  • Right-click MassEffect2.exe and choose Set Affinity.
  • Disable every core except Core 0.
  • Click OK.
  • Right-click the MassEffect2.exe process again and return to Set Affinity.
  • Re-enable all cores.
  • Click OK.
  • Close Windows Task Manager.
My load times are now all 1-10 seconds and there is no hanging at the Weapon Loadout screen or Team Status. Unfortuantely, this fix has to be re-applied every time the game is launched.

For the record, my specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
4 GB Corsair XMS2 Dominator Xtreme
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate

Modifié par Ellestor, 17 mars 2010 - 04:10 .


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Reaperius

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Thank you Ellestor!! That really worked for me. My load times are OUTSTANDING!!