AoW: Planetfall - Intial boot load time has gone from seconds to between (5 and 18) mins and rarely crashes afterwards

[Tealxelon]

One line summary of your issue
Intial boot load time has gone from seconds to between (5 and 18) mins and rarely crashes afterwards

What platform are you running the game on?
Steam

What operating system do you use?
microsoft windows pro 10

Which version of the game are you running?
1.404.43820

What expansions do you have installed?
Revelations, Invasions, Star King

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
After the games immedilty started crashed instally on the intiall boot up, the verify files did not work I redownload the game. The intial crashing wa fixed but then load times grow massively from the original (30 - 45) seconds to (8 - 15) minutes, and then crashes after loadong very so often (10%) of the time, and this affects loading into tactical combat maps as well.

Have you tried verifying your files?
Yes

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[AndrewT]

Probably best to do a clean reinstall:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-Planetfall
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/Planetfall AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/Planetfall folders
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add AoWpf.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.
- start the game with no mods active and test

In particular make sure there are no files or folders left under either the Steam Planetfall or Documents Planetfall locations, before installing again.


Good luck!

 

[Tealxelon]

Did the above steps ended with similar results, did all of it again ended up redownloading into a different drive this time, and that fixed the issuse.