How to minimize the "Endless Loadscreen" Feeling

**kostas84** · September 11, 2012, 12:58 PM

Now, all the progress bar does is get stuck at some points and u are also stuck looking at a frozen screen, how can you help remove this feeling of the loading screen being endless?

Make it say what kind of thing its loading, and make it show different kinds of cool screenshots of battles posted by the community.

This will greately reduce the feeling of having an endless loading screen each time i load a battle.

**Steapa Snotor** · September 11, 2012, 02:11 PM

I like the loading screen for Anno 1404, have you seen it? That game is full of small details that i appreciate.
I just read a couple of chapters while i'm waiting for shogun to load, with enough time for a few hundred press ups thrown in.

**Winterspawn** · September 11, 2012, 04:39 PM

I always Alt+tab out of the game during loading screens and so something else for a minute.

**myself** · September 11, 2012, 04:44 PM

Well, alt+tab seems the best solution to me as well...

**windsupernova** · September 11, 2012, 05:41 PM

I get up a do some stretches and/or drink water.

Come on, its not like I am strapped to my chair nor will the game start without me.

**General Maximus** · September 12, 2012, 02:40 AM

I usually keep an interesting book to read while waiting. All of them are about history.

Otherwise since I drink water, or go to toilet if loading time is taking more time.

Minimizing out of the game sometimes crashes in my PC, so I don't minimize at all. I use Ctrl+Alt+Delete method instead of Alt-Tab.

**Sir Winston Churchill** · September 12, 2012, 05:56 AM

I usually make myself tea. For immersion purposes, it's usually either Sencha or Matcha.

**Adreno** · September 12, 2012, 06:39 AM

loading is pretty fast, except for the initial splashscreen..

**Hikaru Genji** · September 12, 2012, 03:21 PM

Originally Posted by John F. Kennedy

I usually make myself tea. For immersion purposes, it's usually either Sencha or Matcha.

I do the very same thing, although I confess to sometimes forgetting about it while it's steeping, which is never any fun.

**Sir Winston Churchill** · September 12, 2012, 08:37 PM

Originally Posted by Hikaru Genji

I do the very same thing, although I confess to sometimes forgetting about it while it's steeping, which is never any fun.

Really? I usually really enjoy the strong taste of ever-steeped Sencha. Especially at the end of the cup.

**AndreaLeel** · September 13, 2012, 01:48 AM

I get up a do some stretches and/or drink water.

**Kraut** · September 13, 2012, 04:58 AM

I usually turn around to spend the waiting time with any children lingering around, and get teached some lesson either about makeup (from my daughter) or dinosaurs (from my son).
Then, facing the enemy army again, I might think stuff like "Now what would T-Rex do to break up this Ankylosaurus...?"

**adamove** · September 13, 2012, 07:23 AM

thats relly a poor coding and programing skills i got raid of normal disc and it take like 30 sec or something to boot game i will mesure it, and battle map it takes 10-15s

well nothing in this game justify and its a third game on this engine isint it???

SHAME poor programers from CA!!!

HEY CA PROGRAMERS take a look in game like prototype 2 THATS HOW YOU DO FAST LOADING OF COMPLICATED OPEN WORLD GAME THAT TAKES SKILLS NOT WANNABE!!!

**Shaio** · September 13, 2012, 09:22 PM

Mine takes a while to load when first opening for me but otherwise its not that bad.

And one can't compare the loading in shogun 2 to prototype 2, a 30 gig game vs a 9 gig game, prototype two simply only ever loads a a fraction of the data shogun 2 has to load at a time, it isn't any more efficient at loading.

Nothing one can really do to avoid it but ill give everyone these tips.

Have a raid, running games off a raid improves load times a fair bit.

Have a strecth or go take a leak, failing on that work on your secret plan to throw humanity back into the dark ages so you can lead a real army.

**Gigantus** · September 14, 2012, 01:10 AM

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**adamove** · September 14, 2012, 06:27 AM

Im very sorry but i was wrong with my loading times.

here it is a official results, im playin all on ultra:

SHOGUN 2 DX11PATCH VERSION:

LOADING TIME TO THE MENU : 1 minute and 20 secends 1:20s !!!

SIMPLE BATTLE LOAD : 40s

FIRST TUTORIAL BATTLE : 54s

SHOGUN 2 FOTS

LOADING TIME TO MENU(BOOT UP): 1:30s (FUNNY THING IS THAT MENU IS ONLY 600-700MB OF DATA BATTLE GAME IS 1GB)

FIRST TUTORIAL BATTLE: 54s

i can only imagin how it is on poorer PC

YEAH TO CA AND SEGA BLOODY GOOD PROGRAMING I WOULD SAY BLOODY GOOD!!! I DONT KNOW IF THERE IS A GAME WITH WORST LOADING TIME GOOD JOB!!!

**Lokgar** · September 14, 2012, 09:52 AM

it's precisely because you are on all ultra that it takes longer to load. There's so much stuff that has to be loaded in.

**SturmChurro** · September 14, 2012, 10:48 AM

Always nice to have a book on hand or take a short break.

**General Maximus** · September 13, 2012, 03:21 PM

I do see some merit in what he said. My game takes more than a minute to load a battle, let alone campaign or startup...

**Sir Winston Churchill** · September 13, 2012, 09:39 PM

Originally Posted by General Maximus

I do see some merit in what he said. My game takes more than a minute to load a battle, let alone campaign or startup...

Indeed, I usually only start up Shogun when I have the urge to take a duce, usually because it's only after then it loads to the menu. It's rather puzzling as to why it takes so long to load.