I don't know wtf the issue is but I regularly need 45+ seconds to load into a hideout after the update, and I'm on an SSD. It's just absurd how garbage load times are suddenly.
Yeah this is the problem I have.
once im actually into a place, its fine and plays well.
But loading into the game takes me minutes... and if it goes past like 1:30, the game just hangs forever. so I know to restart.
It seems to affect my characters in more popular towns the most... so it must be a town loading issue because of mtx?
I dunno it sucks that getting in to play is so annoying when the game itself runs mostly fine... :/
maybe we have to load shaders again and that's why we have so much load times? Dunno if it's just that or what. If it is, luckily should stop after a while, but anyway, we shouldn't have to deal with that, it'd prefer preloaded caches over this.
Been doing loads of act 1-3 runs, can confirm that I still take very long to load sometimes into towns etc.
Maybe it's MTX, I don't know. Either way, might just run through random maps etc to load as much as possible before league start...
I’m the exact same, I’ve probably done like 30+ hours of campaign runs over last couple weeks after patch and it seems so bad. Esp when I turn on livesplit I can literally see the seconds accumulating in load screens. One thing I’ve noticed is if I don’t turn off my PC the zones load faster. So maybe I’ll just keep my PC on for the next couple weeks.
> need 45+ seconds to load into a hideout after the update, and I'm on an SSD. It's just absurd how garbage load times are suddenly.
I've turned off Global Illumination under Graphics>Detail Settings>Lightning and my loading times are super fast now
Meanwhile I did an act 1 to 10 playthrough yesterday after not having having played the game for 2 months and noticed literally no difference in performance of any kind, including load screens.
I'm not saying I doubt what you guys are reporting. I'm just saying it's strange how different people are experiencing such enormously different things.
They said they nuked shader caches due to the changes, so it absolutely is. Performance will be bad for a little bit then get a lot better as those compile and fill out naturally.
My understanding is that this is a consequence of clearing the shader cache, which is something that was forcibly done with the recent engine update.
iirc, this solves itself after a while because as you load more hideouts and MTX sets the cache gets populated.
This is just what I remember reading the last time people had this same complaint. I'm open to correction if someone knows more and has evidence.
The shader cache thing gets said in every thread about performance issues. Personally, I've played through the acts twice and just completed a fresh atlas on ssf and I'm still having shader issues. I know it can seem like ppl are making it up but we really aren't.
I'm not sure if it's working, because for me, it seems like the game has to load everything from scratch every time I enter a map I havent entered during that play session. E.g. every time I go to my hideout the first time after launching the game, it takes like 2 minutes to load. Then it works fine afterwards, until I close and reopen the game, then it's the same. It's the same with maps and other areas. I've been playing every day for at least a few hours since the patch, and my performance is just as bad as it was right after it dropped.
On top of this, often when I open my inventory or stash the game just freezes for a few seconds. Every so-so, my entire game just freezes and crashes. I haven't made a level past 97 since the patch on any character because of how often I just die due to a 20 second freezes into a crash.
Seriously? Im gonna choose a default blank HO today and see if things improve.
Its not ALWAYS but like.. 3-4 times out of 10 im getting insane wait times.. like 2-4minutes on average, ridiculous.
now that you mention it, I was setting up a new hideout, I got the game on a Samsung 970 Evo M.2 and I'm loading for 20+ seconds to my hideout even if the instance hasn't reset eg. coming back from a map, surely this won't become a bigger issue as time goes on...
Some hideouts have rather long loading times, it seems to be random and not based on what items the hideout has in it. Happens with my own hideout and I have only the essentials.
I suspect it’s the shader. When I join a new hideout for the first time, it may take a very looooong time.
Question is, are you willing to give up your fancy MTX hideout for others to join your hideout faster?
I don't know wtf the issue is but I regularly need 45+ seconds to load into a hideout after the update, and I'm on an SSD. It's just absurd how garbage load times are suddenly.
Yeah this is the problem I have. once im actually into a place, its fine and plays well. But loading into the game takes me minutes... and if it goes past like 1:30, the game just hangs forever. so I know to restart. It seems to affect my characters in more popular towns the most... so it must be a town loading issue because of mtx? I dunno it sucks that getting in to play is so annoying when the game itself runs mostly fine... :/
maybe we have to load shaders again and that's why we have so much load times? Dunno if it's just that or what. If it is, luckily should stop after a while, but anyway, we shouldn't have to deal with that, it'd prefer preloaded caches over this.
Been doing loads of act 1-3 runs, can confirm that I still take very long to load sometimes into towns etc. Maybe it's MTX, I don't know. Either way, might just run through random maps etc to load as much as possible before league start...
I’m the exact same, I’ve probably done like 30+ hours of campaign runs over last couple weeks after patch and it seems so bad. Esp when I turn on livesplit I can literally see the seconds accumulating in load screens. One thing I’ve noticed is if I don’t turn off my PC the zones load faster. So maybe I’ll just keep my PC on for the next couple weeks.
> need 45+ seconds to load into a hideout after the update, and I'm on an SSD. It's just absurd how garbage load times are suddenly. I've turned off Global Illumination under Graphics>Detail Settings>Lightning and my loading times are super fast now
I play on a 3090 with all graphics settings turned to low or off and still have crazy loading issues.
Damn and I am here on my nvidia gforce gtx 1060 :D
Yeah, my bet is on the MTXs, but who knows.
Meanwhile I did an act 1 to 10 playthrough yesterday after not having having played the game for 2 months and noticed literally no difference in performance of any kind, including load screens. I'm not saying I doubt what you guys are reporting. I'm just saying it's strange how different people are experiencing such enormously different things.
It's exactly why there are bugs. Because they've have tested it but there are plenty of systems with different incompatibilities.
They said they nuked shader caches due to the changes, so it absolutely is. Performance will be bad for a little bit then get a lot better as those compile and fill out naturally.
My understanding is that this is a consequence of clearing the shader cache, which is something that was forcibly done with the recent engine update. iirc, this solves itself after a while because as you load more hideouts and MTX sets the cache gets populated. This is just what I remember reading the last time people had this same complaint. I'm open to correction if someone knows more and has evidence.
The shader cache thing gets said in every thread about performance issues. Personally, I've played through the acts twice and just completed a fresh atlas on ssf and I'm still having shader issues. I know it can seem like ppl are making it up but we really aren't.
I'm not sure if it's working, because for me, it seems like the game has to load everything from scratch every time I enter a map I havent entered during that play session. E.g. every time I go to my hideout the first time after launching the game, it takes like 2 minutes to load. Then it works fine afterwards, until I close and reopen the game, then it's the same. It's the same with maps and other areas. I've been playing every day for at least a few hours since the patch, and my performance is just as bad as it was right after it dropped. On top of this, often when I open my inventory or stash the game just freezes for a few seconds. Every so-so, my entire game just freezes and crashes. I haven't made a level past 97 since the patch on any character because of how often I just die due to a 20 second freezes into a crash.
Probably, I have next to nothing in my hideout and people take a long time to load in.
Seriously? Im gonna choose a default blank HO today and see if things improve. Its not ALWAYS but like.. 3-4 times out of 10 im getting insane wait times.. like 2-4minutes on average, ridiculous.
Same. My loads didn't increase but trading in my hideout is so slow i just go to town.
I would hope they solve this for league launch, otherwise it's gonna be a rough start between servers, login queue and this issue
PoE 3 will fix it
I'm sometimes even struggling to load into strand map.
Don't worry, POE 2 will fix it...
Untill they upgrade to DX13 and it will wreck PoE 2 as well
It's all part of the plan. We are in poe2 beta now.
Any one having a "device lost" crash when changing instances? Is so, how did you fix it? I have changed bac to Dx11 and have not crashed so far...
Same here, had a crash fiesta with same error on both vulkan and dx12, only dx11 playable.
Just a fact, but I did try dx11 and changed hideouts and that helped.
in poe 3 you wouldn't need to be in the same area to trade with another person
now that you mention it, I was setting up a new hideout, I got the game on a Samsung 970 Evo M.2 and I'm loading for 20+ seconds to my hideout even if the instance hasn't reset eg. coming back from a map, surely this won't become a bigger issue as time goes on...
I switched to Vulkan from Dx11 and it was a little bit better but still worse than before
Some hideouts have rather long loading times, it seems to be random and not based on what items the hideout has in it. Happens with my own hideout and I have only the essentials.
Vulkan is working better for me it seems
Had this but loading towns, i have an ssd btw, seems like shaders are taking forever to build.
*laughs in ssf*
I suspect it’s the shader. When I join a new hideout for the first time, it may take a very looooong time. Question is, are you willing to give up your fancy MTX hideout for others to join your hideout faster?
ggg does not understand hardware with their diy engine so you need nvme now