Game load time really long - normal?

[IckyATLAS]

Watch in hand game load time is 45 seconds. I mean firing up IL2 and getting to the main page here under.

After the fine red line at the bottom of the page during loading goes all the way from left to right it is still another 15 seconds before this page below comes up.

All the game is on fast NVMe SSD. Ram is 64Gigs very fast too and CPU is 9900K with Win10. Are my loading times normal?

 

[Bremspropeller]

Mine have gone up, too.

[=J18=FritzGerald]

Same thing here

Edited November 19, 2020 by GALM=Leftenant_Gerald

[Stilico]

Hadn't booted the sim up in a few months and noticed the same thing. All of my load times have noticeably increased. It's not awful or anything, but they're definitely longer than they used to be.

[Noisemaker]

Yeah, normal.  They've increased steadily since I bought the game earlier this year, with each new update.

Slow for modern hardware, perhaps, but it's all a matter of perception.  I grew up on Apple 2, C64, and Atari ST and as far as I'm concerned, with what you get in this game, I'd say the wait is worth it. 

[Luftschiff]

I was just thinking about this yesterday - even on my fastest SSD the game load times have grown quite notably. It's not a problem per se, but it's curious that the updates would cause such a considerable increase. Now if we're discussing problems, having the HUD enabled still eats as much as 20-25 FPS...

[E69_Qpassa_VR]

Using the FpsVR tool I see many CPU spikes during load, I think they load lots of data into the ram at that moment,  thing is yes, I have noticed the decrease in the performance. 

[jollyjack]

Maybe it's time to create some hibernate schemesave, saving the RAM buffer, with also the benefit of picking up a mission where you left partly through ...?

[firdimigdi]

Sounds about right. I never really pay that much attention while it's loading really.

[jollyjack]

18 hours ago, IckyATLAS said:

Watch in hand game load time is 45 seconds. I mean firing up IL2 and getting to the main page here under.

After the fine red line at the bottom of the page during loading goes all the way from left to right it is still another 15 seconds before this page below comes up.

All the game is on fast NVMe SSD. Ram is 64Gigs very fast too and CPU is 9900K with Win10. Are my loading times normal?

 

9700K Windows LTSC, 40 sec, it was faster with 4.501 ...

[Voidhunger]

Same here, game itself and missions too.

Some big missions have extreme loading time now.

[jollyjack]

13 minutes ago, Voidhunger said:

Same here, game itself and missions too.

Some big missions have extreme loading time now.

this was before loading any mission or campaign ...

[Voidhunger]

1 hour ago, jollyjack said:

this was before loading any mission or campaign ...

yes even the game itself is loading for much longer now

[PatrickAWlson]

The game seems to take a long time to start.    If anything missions seem to load faster than before, especially if you have a binary file.

[Jade_Monkey]

Makes sense since the number of stuff that needs to be loaded probably increases with some patches. It's not gonna get faster unless there are some specific optimizations.

[photog95661]

Is there some way we individual users can help ourselves?  For example, limit the number of single missions and/or scripted campaigns left resident in the game.  As a matter of convenience I have moved some single missions to an external folder as the list of missions to select internal to the sim became too lengthy to be useful.  I anticipate moving them back to the "missions" folder at some time in the future.  I don't anticipate deleting them until re-saves no longer make them usable after future upgrades.  I also recall an event where I used a third party application which changed a setting which caused hundreds (if not thousands) of text files to be written to the app's main folder.  My logic is reducing the amount of work the app needs to open/perform.

[jollyjack]

I wondered about that too .... my mission folder is filled with unfinished business. A book-keeping tool would be nice ...

[dburne]

13 hours ago, PatrickAWlson said:

The game seems to take a long time to start.    If anything missions seem to load faster than before, especially if you have a binary file.

 

Yes that is my experience also.

[Georgio]

On 11/19/2020 at 5:23 AM, Noisemaker said:

Yeah, normal.  They've increased steadily since I bought the game earlier this year, with each new update.

Slow for modern hardware, perhaps, but it's all a matter of perception.  I grew up on Apple 2, C64, and Atari ST and as far as I'm concerned, with what you get in this game, I'd say the wait is worth it. 

 

Don't forget the 30 minutes worth of cassette loading only to have it error right at the end...?

Though that pales in comparison with late 70's typing in a program from a book to my Apple IIe over a whole weekend only to have that crash.

These boys don't know the meaning of hardship...?

Edited November 20, 2020 by Georgio

[PatrickAWlson]

4 hours ago, jollyjack said:

I wondered about that too .... my mission folder is filled with unfinished business. A book-keeping tool would be nice ...

 

Make subfolders

[jollyjack]

yep, done, guess i am just keeping too many LoL.

[smink1701]

SUPER long!

[Tipsi]

I'm glad to see it takes everyone ages to load the game, just like it does for me ?

[RedKestrel]

Probably needs some optimization after all the recent patches. Mine seems to take a long time but I always zone out during loading screens lol. 

[IckyATLAS]

Its a little annoying as it will slow down the loop between editor and testing.

[Taxman]

Gives me a chance to read the news on my I phone.  And check for messages.

[Zeev]

15 hours ago, jollyjack said:

I wondered about that too .... my mission folder is filled with unfinished business. A book-keeping tool would be nice ...

I thought of some script \ application that will read the statistics files and then mark missions it finds there with some prefix or suffix (e.g "singlePlayerMission1_done" or move them to backup folder, but these statistics record files do not show if player "won" or "lost" the mission, and they are hard to read because most of the data is encrypted...

Edited November 20, 2020 by Zeev

[76IAP-Black]

Im using a SSD so my loading times are pretty short

[BladeMeister]

Just be thankful you all are using SSDs. I am still on HDD.

 

S!Blade<><

[dburne]

10 hours ago, BladeMeister said:

Just be thankful you all are using SSDs. I am still on HDD.

 

S!Blade<><

 

[jollyjack]

On 11/21/2020 at 12:57 AM, 76IAP-Black said:

Im using a SSD so my loading times are pretty short

 

How short? I have all on a M.2 1TB NVMe Samsung pro SSD, it's supposedly even faster than a 'normal' SSD ....

Edited November 23, 2020 by jollyjack

[Ouky1991]

M.2 here too and they are longer that they used to be on HDD. It's not big issue for me.