Long Load Times in Skyrim [Fix]

[Rennn]

I don't believe Skyrim has its own cap, aside from its internal vsync at 60 fps. Regular drivers from AMD or Nvidia allow the user to set vsync, so you may want to try disabling that if you have it, and instead rely on Skyrim's internal vsync.

 

I'm glad this topic seems to have helped several people.

Edited October 15, 2012 by Rennn

[damnedfruit]

Finally solved this f**king bug, thanks to you man ! :D

[RbtRvltin]

Wow... so strange that something completely unrelated to loading would cause load times....

 

Thank you very much, I just started capping the FPS through ENB to cut down on the stutter, and my load times shot up. I just didn't see a connection, lol.

 

Thanks again. Kudos to you :teehee:

[Bunik]

Forcing turning off vertical synchronization in nvidia panel for skyrim solved the issue for me. Finally I can enjoy SSD quicknes again. :)

[exploiteddna]

This is amazing. Im so glad this worked for me. At the same time im also a little irritated that it was something so "dumb".. All this headache for using a 60fps cap (bc if i didnt the physics engine would freak out and water would flicker).

 

This is everything I did to try and solve the problem (for anyone else who is trying to troubleshoot, this helpful..somehow..maybe)

• fresh reinstall of the game
• fresh install of Win7
• tried multiple driver versions
• troubleshooted my entire 350 plugin/texture mods
• moved skyrim and mods from SATA III 500gb HDD to its own dedicated 120gb SSD
• tried debugging the Papyrus logs
• started a new character (or two),
• 'cleaned' the saved game of my main player character
• thorougly cleaned all mod plugins and bethesda DLC plugins in tes5edit
• tweaked the heck out of my INI files, anything i thought may help
• tried opening the world map and doing a full rotation around it before going into a loading screen
• tried removing keys from my characters inventory (based on recommendation on different forum/youtube), but obviously this is useless when your character is brand new and has no keys to remove lol
• ran most of my large texture packs (SRO, HD-2K, Serious HD, etc.) through DDSopt for optimization
• unpacked the BSAs from all of my scripted mods to look at all of the scripts to see if I could find any obvious conflicts
• tried running my two cards in non-SLI and assigned one card to just do physX
• tried using only one graphics card altogether
• messed with my overclock settings in the main BIOS (for mem and cpu OC) and in nvidia inspector (for my gpu OC)
• said "what. the. f." like a million times...
• oh yeah, then i tried changing my search terms I was using to google for help and found this thread.. WOW what do you know! It WORKS LIKE A CHARM. You have no idea how relieving it is to have this resolved.. this is by far the most difficult problem solving ive had to do with skyrim (and ive had some doozies haha). I cannot thank the OP enough for posting this. I hope more people having trouble with this will find this thread and get the same outcome :thumbsup:

System Specs

i7 3770k @ 5ghz HT-enabled

2x4gb 2400mhz ddr3

2x crucial m4 SSD

500gb SATA III HDD

2x evga gtx680 classified (evbot)

gigabyte z77x-up7 motherboard

[Saerileth]

I'm getting insane loading times, but only since I upgraded my hardware (more RAM, new CPU, better graphics card). I also think it's getting worse when I install mods, but I'm not sure about that.

 

Nothing described here works for me. I tried disabling fps cap, lowering it beyond 30, setting it to 120. I tried forcing V-Sync on and off with nVidia inspector and every combination of the two settings. I tried installing an ENB for good measure. The most maddening thing is that sometimes it inexplicably works just fine (less than a minute load time), which has lead me to mistakenly believe I finally hit the right setting too many times. These "miracle cures" have absolutely no pattern as far as I can tell, they appear completely random. Any other time the game is stuck in load screen for over 10 minutes (after which I kill the process, I have never yet managed to actually load a game at all once it takes longer than a minute).

 

An interesting thing to note is that according to FRAPS, my framerate never exceeds 32fps while in load screen, regardless of what I set the cap to. If I set the cap to 30 (or below) the fps is constant at that value, if I set it above 32 the fps will flicker between 31 and 32. I have no idea what this means.

 

This is incredibly frustrating, and makes the game enirely unplayable. To top it all off, I also get pretty bad z-fighting on the distant mountains when I actually do get the game to load. It appears I wasted a lot of money on new hardware, because Skyrim appears to be running worse than before.

 

EDIT

I seem to have tracked the problem down to an .ini-tweak that increases map resolution. How this could affect load time is beyond me, but at least after removing it and simultaniously turning fps cap off and force-disabling V-sync, the game loads normally.

 

Unfortunately, disabling V-sync is not really an option, the screen tearing is unbearable. I can still get the game to load with it enabled with a very strange workaround: If I Ctrl+Alt+Del out of Skyrim from the load screen, then tab back into it, the cell is loaded immediately. It seems this game is determined to screw my brains.

Edited July 5, 2013 by Saerileth

[tsunax7]

I'm getting insane loading times, but only since I upgraded my hardware (more RAM, new CPU, better graphics card). I also think it's getting worse when I install mods, but I'm not sure about that.

 

Nothing described here works for me. I tried disabling fps cap, lowering it beyond 30, setting it to 120. I tried forcing V-Sync on and off with nVidia inspector and every combination of the two settings. I tried installing an ENB for good measure. The most maddening thing is that sometimes it inexplicably works just fine (less than a minute load time), which has lead me to mistakenly believe I finally hit the right setting too many times. These "miracle cures" have absolutely no pattern as far as I can tell, they appear completely random. Any other time the game is stuck in load screen for over 10 minutes (after which I kill the process, I have never yet managed to actually load a game at all once it takes longer than a minute).

 

An interesting thing to note is that according to FRAPS, my framerate never exceeds 32fps while in load screen, regardless of what I set the cap to. If I set the cap to 30 (or below) the fps is constant at that value, if I set it above 32 the fps will flicker between 31 and 32. I have no idea what this means.

 

This is incredibly frustrating, and makes the game enirely unplayable. To top it all off, I also get pretty bad z-fighting on the distant mountains when I actually do get the game to load. It appears I wasted a lot of money on new hardware, because Skyrim appears to be running worse than before.

 

EDIT

I seem to have tracked the problem down to an .ini-tweak that increases map resolution. How this could affect load time is beyond me, but at least after removing it and simultaniously turning fps cap off and force-disabling V-sync, the game loads normally.

 

Unfortunately, disabling V-sync is not really an option, the screen tearing is unbearable. I can still get the game to load with it enabled with a very strange workaround: If I Ctrl+Alt+Del out of Skyrim from the load screen, then tab back into it, the cell is loaded immediately. It seems this game is determined to screw my brains.

 

Edited August 26, 2013 by tsunax7

[Fafnir747]

PLEEAASE... for all of us "amateur's" ; be so kid and explain why loading takes longer and longer using "common english" !

"Idiot-proof", as to say :unsure:(forgive me my choise of words).

 

:thumbsup:

[LInkacid]

Hi, I just want to say what worked for me.

first i dropped FPS Limiter in to skyrim folder. Then open antilag and changed 30 to 120.

it seems that the lower the fps limit is set the longer the wait time.

 

 

[neroweiss]

I'm getting insane loading times, but only since I upgraded my hardware (more RAM, new CPU, better graphics card). I also think it's getting worse when I install mods, but I'm not sure about that.

 

Nothing described here works for me. I tried disabling fps cap, lowering it beyond 30, setting it to 120. I tried forcing V-Sync on and off with nVidia inspector and every combination of the two settings. I tried installing an ENB for good measure. The most maddening thing is that sometimes it inexplicably works just fine (less than a minute load time), which has lead me to mistakenly believe I finally hit the right setting too many times. These "miracle cures" have absolutely no pattern as far as I can tell, they appear completely random. Any other time the game is stuck in load screen for over 10 minutes (after which I kill the process, I have never yet managed to actually load a game at all once it takes longer than a minute).

 

An interesting thing to note is that according to FRAPS, my framerate never exceeds 32fps while in load screen, regardless of what I set the cap to. If I set the cap to 30 (or below) the fps is constant at that value, if I set it above 32 the fps will flicker between 31 and 32. I have no idea what this means.

 

This is incredibly frustrating, and makes the game enirely unplayable. To top it all off, I also get pretty bad z-fighting on the distant mountains when I actually do get the game to load. It appears I wasted a lot of money on new hardware, because Skyrim appears to be running worse than before.

 

EDIT

I seem to have tracked the problem down to an .ini-tweak that increases map resolution. How this could affect load time is beyond me, but at least after removing it and simultaniously turning fps cap off and force-disabling V-sync, the game loads normally.

 

Unfortunately, disabling V-sync is not really an option, the screen tearing is unbearable. I can still get the game to load with it enabled with a very strange workaround: If I Ctrl+Alt+Del out of Skyrim from the load screen, then tab back into it, the cell is loaded immediately. It seems this game is determined to screw my brains.

 

Hello,

I have exactly the same problem : in game I always stay between 45-60 fps, and on the loading screen I'm locked at 30, this makes some loading time really long.

Do you by any chance remember what was your problem ? And how to fix it ?

 

(Sorry for my bad english, it's been a long time i haven't practiced)