Long Load Times (solved)

Equalizer

coolbot100x There is something called a "RAM drive/disk" which pre-loads specified directories into memory so that when files in them are needed they are accessed from memory instead of disk.

Might be worth looking into but it probably isn't that simple to setup and I can't say for sure that this would help.

coolbot100x

Equalizer I just got an advertisement for one in an e-mail this morning lol.
so I'll look into it thanks!

coolbot100x

IVIemories Equalizer still reading but I'm not entirely sure what it would do, but if it I set the game files and the My Games/Cosmoteer up to use a Ramdisk, that'd be placing everything in volatile memory?
or is it simply using two drives with the same info to load processes at the speed of two drives?
Would it even help anyway if I don't have a backup drive faster than my HDD?

IVIemories

coolbot100x You're definitely going to get extended load times when you have star wars, and abh together, though 15 minutes is pretty abnormal. Try turning texture compression on and off and see if that helps you at all.

coolbot100x

IVIemories Resetting the compression settings didn't really seem to help, just made those test loads slower
EDIT: scratch that it did make it a few minutes quicker

IVIemories

coolbot100x RAM disk would likely not help, since Cosmoteer loads mods from the documents folder.

IVIemories

coolbot100x iirc ramdisk completely erases itself when your computer shuts down. Whilst Cosmoteer can be set to save to a folder thats not in Documents, this would still mean that you'd need to manually copy over all your ships and saves every time you shut down your computer and copy them over again every time your boot up ramdisk.

Would it help? Maybe - but you shouldn't be getting 15 minute load times even with all your mods so maybe there are other issues with your hard drive like fragmentation and lack of empty space.

coolbot100x

IVIemories It runs daily defragmentation tho I could sever to clear some more space I guess?
Currently at 260Ish GB free of 2TB

I'm currently setting up a tiny flash drive with Readyboost, the windows built in Ramdisk software, it seems to just be a Cache setup, so there's no risk of data loss? but my 2TB backup drive is to slow(even in USB3) to be used, and the only remaining flash drive option is 5gb, 3 of which is in use :/ so I doubt it will help but I'll test it out

IVIemories

coolbot100x Ramdisk is turning your RAM into a temporary hard drive. Not sure what readyboost is but you're welcome to give it a try.

If you do find performance gains, then please reply so other people have a fix for this in the future.

coolbot100x

IVIemories I guess it helped a little? I also used Asus GPU Tweak II's "Gaming Booster" so... Along with clearing my hard drive space. and clearing as many unnecessary tasks as possible (including like, the desktop) between these and resetting the compression settings my load time decreased by about halve, but far more importantly is less dramatized by focusing on something else. I think Readyboost would actually be a significant difference if I had a larger Flash Drive.
But at this point, I think I'd rather get a small SSD meant just for this game lol.

coolbot100x

IVIemories Is it possible to change the topic title? or give it a "solved" tag in some other way?

IVIemories

coolbot100x You can rename it yourself using the little drop down menu next to the reply button.

coolbot100x

IVIemories ohhhh, Thanks! still new here.

yobeefjerky

coolbot100x Are you sure this should be in Tech Support?
why not put it in General discussion, it would probably get more traffic there.

Walt

For the sake of comparison, how long does it take to load without any mods turned on?

coolbot100x

Walt Sorry for the late reply, It takes between 19-23 seconds without mods. Oh and running in administrator seemed to help my speed as well? but it seems to vary quite a bit anyway for some reason.