Vulon Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 (edited) Behold. https://youtu.be/tboCcg12CHo It's gotten so bad. Initial load time -- 1 minute, 10 seconds. (actually better than my new average of 2 minutes)Load time from Institute to Sunshine Tidings -- 3 minutes, 24 seconds. Load time from Sunshine Tidings to Rocky Cave -- 36 seconds. Load time from Rocky Cave to Recon Bunker Theta -- 1 minute, 16 seconds.Load time from Recon Bunker Theta to Diamond City Market -- *smashes computer with sledgehammer* Here's what I know. It wasn't like this for a good 120+ hours of gameplay. The massive spike in load times was fairly sudden. I created a new character to escape the horrors of these load times. It was futile. Load times are roughly equivalent for the file in which I've accumulated 6 days of playtime and the file in which I've accumulated 16 hours. The instance in the above video in which I tab out into the task manager was the first time I've noticed my disk usage maxed out. Additionally, the reported memory usage seems odd, considering I get the same ballpark 60% usage reading when FO4 is using over 4gb of memory. It's only using 2gb here. CPU usage fluctuates when I tab out and spikes a couple times, but normally Fallout 4 seems to utilize between 60-70%. The problem isn't my rig or my settings. It could very well be my HDD, but I still find it odd that the sudden, massive spike in load times came about so...suddenly. If the issue was isolated to my HDD I would think that it would have surfaced much earlier. I've defragmented my HDD. Cleared out a couple hundred gigs of additional storage just in case. I've run numerous HDD benchmark tests, which have resulted in decidedly average or slightly above average results for read/write times. Right now I'm planning on backing up my saves/mods and doing a re-installation, since I don't know what else to do aside from shelling out the money for an external SDD for the sole purpose of playing FO4. I've never, ever encountered load times this frequently atrocious -- not even when I was playing through a severely bloated Skyrim save on the ps3 back in 2012. Prior to this, Fallout 4 was the most stable Bethesda release I'd ever experienced. I can recall the relative speediness of the load times I used to enjoy like it was yesterday. I think the longest one I sat through was probably 30-40 seconds tops, and I averaged anywhere between 10-20 seconds for exterior loads and significantly less for interiors. I just can't pinpoint the cause of these new-fangled load times for the life of me. I read somewhere that uncapping the framerate was verified to have an effect on load times. I tried it out of desperation, and while it made the loading screens themselves move around probably 1.5x their normal speed and made scrolling through menus and attempting to lockpick nigh impossible in the face of the hilarious/horrifying increase in literal game speed...it had zero impact on load time itself. Changing settings/resolution doesn't work...nothing works. Help. Please. Here's a list of my currently installed mods, if it's of any use in determining the cause. Current modsVault BootyHarness WardrobeDaisy NukesBetter Piper OutfitFAROptimized Vanilla TexturesEnclave Standalone PaintjobsWearable Shoulder BagsHubrics Comics Shoulder BagsFogoutEnhanced Color Correction 1.2 Edited December 15, 2015 by Vulon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fl0W Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 (edited) have you modified the fallout4.ini after the latest patch with the new way? If not then try this tool -> http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/2772/? What i mean with the new way:http://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/Fallout_4_Mod_Installation#How_To_Enable_Fallout_4_Mods Replace this with the following text: sResourceDataDirsFinal=STRINGS\, TEXTURES\, MUSIC\, SOUND\, INTERFACE\, MESHES\, PROGRAMS\, MATERIALS\, LODSETTINGS\, VIS\, MISC\, SCRIPTS\, SHADERSFX\* The above settings were deprecated as they were known to cause abnormally long load-times. Edited December 15, 2015 by Fl0W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulon Posted December 15, 2015 Author Share Posted December 15, 2015 Yup, did that a while back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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