Super Slow Zone/Instance Loading Times

Hey All,

Trying to figure out what's going on when loading into the game/getting into different zones. It used to be a ~10 second load time, but now it's upwards of 45 seconds to a minute or more now... It seems pretty sporadic with no direct cause.

I.E. Load into game (La Noscea) it will take 30-45 seconds. Travel to different zone, 30-45 second. Go back to La Noscea and it can take 10-15 seconds or a minute randomly.

Anyone running into this problem and have a solution? It seems to have started about a week or so ago, really does bum me out a bit. :/ I've tried verifying the game cache on steam to no avail.

P.S. I've noticed that sometimes (1/5) restarting Steam seems to somewhere help maybe... not all the time though.

What is your system specs?

Maybe it was already struggling to play the game and now you are Torrenting or something in the background.

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Originally Posted by Judge_Xero

What is your system specs?

Maybe it was already struggling to play the game and now you are Torrenting or something in the background.

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I don't think so, it seems to only affect the actual loading into the zone or instance. Once I get in, it's smooth as butter on some relatively high settings (Mor Dhona/Raids/Etc.).

Specs:

GeForce GTX 660
AMD FX-4170 Quad-Core
16.00 GB RAM
1 TB HDD (300 GB Free)
Windows 7

I'd point at internet over system specs for this. if it was a proccessing issue that took "1 minute" to load a zone, it wouldnt run the game very well at all :P
If anything, try connect to a different connection. Eg: Mobile hotspot. See if there's any changes.

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Originally Posted by Lemage

I'd point at internet over system specs for this. if it was a proccessing issue that took "1 minute" to load a zone, it wouldnt run the game very well at all :P
If anything, try connect to a different connection. Eg: Mobile hotspot. See if there's any changes.

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That's what I was thinking, I don't have a super computer, but it was running fine prior to the previous patch.

I'm currently hooked up via ethernet and running a speed-test I'm getting around ~50Mbps Down, ~7Mbps Upload which is pretty darn quick I think. Again, this hasn't been an issue since about the last patch/2-3 weeks ago.

Also, when I loaded up Mor Dhona yesterday, it took me like ~60 seconds, then each time I would leave to a different zone/go back it would take ~5 seconds. I'll test it today, but maybe it's a caching issue presented in the last patch? Would love to hear something from the techies about this. I can't stand going from one of the first people loading in a zone/instance, to being "that guy" that takes a minute to load in an instance to start the raid/fight for apparently no reason. :/