Long load times

[arrack]

Anyone else seeing excessive load times entering/exiting battles? For me this is a real game breaker, as I end up autoresolving rather than fight any battles with less than 10 units on each side. I'd like to fight every battle, but it just doesn't seem worth the long wait... CA should really optimize this, as I can't really find a way to reduce anything ingame that would also reduce load times. Jolly good fun otherwise!

[Brusilov]

I get the feeling that the higher the settings you use relative to the capabilities of your computer the longer the load times are.

Personally, the load times for battles are not that bad.

Is this all battles or just the very large ones.

Also how long (in seconds or minutes) does it actually take to load on your system?

[astonkiller]

Try lowing settings will load faster!!

[arrack]

Guessing it's all about big textures here. Which I can live without, seldom do you zoom in that close during a battle (too hectic).
I'll try with low res versions and measure. In reality, load times are perhaps 30-60 seconds. That might not sound too bad, but any modern application should have less, especially one that is supposed to be entertaining.

[Spaxspore]

specs specs specs

9/10 people in this section complain that the game takes forever to load, and their box is 6yrs+ old.

[irishron]

^Very true. Post your dxdiag, please.

[Amaranthen]

I run everything on High, even through my system can handle Ultra perfectly fine.

I do notice that load time -battles and naval battles - are quite long.

I have AMD Phenom II x4 965 3.4 ghz, 6950 XFX flashed to 6970, 4 GB DDR3.

[eXistenZ]

I run everything on High, even through my system can handle Ultra perfectly fine.

I do notice that load time -battles and naval battles - are quite long.

Same here. when i selected automatic the game set everything to ultra, i toned it down to high myself. Still long load times:

ATI radeon 4760
AMD phenom II x4 945 2.99 Ghz
4GB RAM

EDIT: trying to update my drivers, but that catalyst control center is way too confusing

[AlfonsoVIII]

The higher the graphics = the longer the load time. No matter what hardware you have, the end result will be the same.

[Lionheartx10]

The higher the graphics = the longer the load time. No matter what hardware you have, the end result will be the same.

I'm not finding this, game is maxed out and I barely have to wait longer than 15-30 secs most of the time

[James1613]

I'm not finding this, game is maxed out and I barely have to wait longer than 15-30 secs most of the time

same for me, it is a bit longer then the instant to 10 sec load times i get in other games.

[fdk]

Same here. considering tactical battles are basically a game within the game its absolutely ok.

somewhat related:
Anyone tried enabling the laa-flag for the shogun 2 executable? (or maybe it is?) with RAM so ridiculously cheap like now it would certainly be neat to allow the game stretch its legs a little more.

[webtax]

The worse thing is the first screen that comes up when you launch the game with copyright information.

That screen stays up forever...

i always just alt tab that part and just browse some interwebs (like this forum)
i can ever hear later the videos kickin in so i can alt tab back.

[Blom89]

The worse thing is the first screen that comes up when you launch the game with copyright information.

That screen stays up forever...

[♔DARTH LEGO♔]

agree with all the above posts ...specs specs...


saying that thouhg its some of the fastest loading times in a TW ever for me

...and also my PC is a glorified paperweight so it reeeealy is fast

[vanadis]

Posting specs without posting your kind of hard drive is also fairly useless. Buy a SSD or modern drive like the WD Caviar black, or go RAID0, if you want to reduce loading times.

[AlfonsoVIII]

Maybe the long load times could be people having their graphics set too high based on their computer specs.

[Spaxspore]

long load times can be attributed to a heavily fragmented Hardrive, that or a old/slow one (ide 100/133 comes to mind). WD black is the way to go.

[AlfonsoVIII]

long load times can be attributed to a heavily fragmented Hardrive, that or a old/slow one (ide 100/133 comes to mind). WD black is the way to go.

I like WD Black, but when it came time to purchase, I found Samsung F3 better and cheaper. But I defragged my Steam partition and did not notice that much improvement. It was only 16 percent fragmented.

[Spaxspore]

I like WD Black, but when it came time to purchase, I found Samsung F3 better and cheaper. But I defragged my Steam partition and did not notice that much improvement. It was only 16 percent fragmented.

Perhaps but i like my 5yr warranty