Found One Solution to Horrible Load Times on Stellaris.

[Nighzmarquls]

So I recently had gotten a new SSD for my computer and reinstalled windows on it, and it worked really well. But Stellaris ever since Megacorp was giving me a thirty minute plus load time for no apparent reason I could see. I figured it was something up with the patch that was not playing nice with my hard drive but I dealt with it since we are in a pretty rough spot and other people have complained about really long load times for stellaris in earlier patches I figured it would get fixed later.

So as has become my pattern I would do other thingswhile trying to load stellaris and start up a movie on my machine while it does its thing in the background. This time I got a BSOD on something called driver verifier.

I investigated what could be causing this kind of thing and came across a few pretty good how too on resolving it. So I tried updating my drivers, most of them were fine, my firmware was a bit out of date though so I did that.

No major performance improvements load times are still awful. Whatever I decide to dig a bit deeper.

So I went and looked up how to disable the driver verifier. After doing so my PC boot time was lightning quick and now stellaris loads before I can even consider changing out to do something else.

So this is on an SSD which is creaming fast for these kinds of operations. I can only imagine what this situation would do to some one with a slower HD.

So if you are in the same boat as me try this out.

 

[Ramiel]

Huh, interesting. Sounds like something that should be ok to do, but *might* mess up your computer if it goes wrong? I dunno. Hope it helps people.
I'd suggest posting this - along with your computer and hardware specs - in bug reports; will probably help devs fix some of those hard-to-find hardware conflict issues.