Long loading screen when zoning

[xRaynex]

Hey, hello & good evening.

For quiet some time now i am bothered by super long loading screens when i am zoning between different locations. (I am aware there are other threads regarding this problem but I couldn't find any solution.)
FF14 is the only game that has such a problem on my computer.
My computer hardware is less than 6 months old and runs all games on highest quality and best performance. I updated several drivers (including vga, chipset,..), changed the FF14 path to 3 different harddrives, tried different display settings and display limits (inside ff14), my RAM load is no problem either.
My connection is a lil bit slow with only 4k Mbit/s.

There are conditions under which i have loading times of 10 sek but very often i have these problematic 1,5 to 2 min loading screens.



I am open for your support.

See You,
Rayne

[SantaClaw]

Hard drive determined your loading times, and second will be your CPU.
What is your CPU speed? Using HDD or SSD?

[xRaynex]

Thanks for your help. I am using an HDD (WD10EZEX Blue) & CPU = i7 4770K @ 4x3,5GHz.

I don't want to get a SDD for this single game.

2 Questions:
1) If I'd get a SDD, would I have to run my OS on it too?


2) Is there anthing else I can try?




(OS is Win8.1 btw..which I kinda regret choosing and I'm thinking of switching back to Win7

[elektrolivia]

Thanks for your help. I am using an HDD (WD10EZEX Blue) & CPU = i7 4770K @ 4x3,5GHz.

I don't want to get a SDD for this single game.

2 Questions:
1) If I'd get a SDD, would I have to run my OS on it too?


2) Is there anthing else I can try?




(OS is Win8.1 btw..which I kinda regret choosing and I'm thinking of switching back to Win7

SSDs are the way to go. I have one and I run my OS on it as well as my games. So quick!

Your operating system as far as between 8.1 and 7 has nothing to do with it as windows 7 takes more to run than 8.1. You would probably still experience the same issue.

[Squa11_Leonhart]

1) If I'd get a SDD, would I have to run my OS on it too

no, you can definitely use it only for games.

2) Is there anthing else I can try?

Place the game on a HDD of its own, and/or Defragment the hdd.

Having the game on the same drive as the paging and os drive leads to lower performance, i suspect fragmentation following all the recent updates might be a cause of your issues though

[SantaClaw]

1) Nope, you don't have to. But SSD can improve your system loading times significantly, so why not.

2) I don't think so, no.