Extremely slow load times

[Moricat]

Currently experiencing 4+ minute load times which are possibly increasing with each load. Tried disconnecting internet, don't have any connections from third-party software, only have ~10 save files. Also I did not experience this issue with PoE.

Please help. I really want to play this game, but this is just excruciating.

DxDiag attached.

 

[Obsidian_David]

Hello @Moricat,

I am sorry that the load times are becoming so long. Could you attach your output log for us to see if there are any errors going on?

You can find your output log in the 'Data' folder of the game files. Example location:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Tyranny\Data\output_log.txt

Unfortunately, our game loads a lot of files from the hard drive when going to a new scene; so this may just be limited by the read speed of your hard drive. But there is a chance something else is going on that we can address, and the output log would help us identify that.

Thank you for supporting our games!
David

 

[AndrewT]

Note that your memory is below the minimum requirement of the game, and your video barely above it:

Minimum:

• Memory: 6 GB RAM
  
• Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5770 or NVIDIA GeForce GTS450

Recommended:

• Memory: 8 GB RAM
  
• Graphics: Radeon HD 6850 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

PoE had lower requirements, 4gb of memory for instance.

 

[Moricat]

Thank you both for the input - just struck me as weird that I was able to run and load the game smoothly up until around just after chapter 2, then boom... huge load times.

Output_log attached.

 

[Obsidian_David]

Thank you for the log @Moricat. There are no obvious errors, however I now see that you are attempting to Load Lethian's Crossing, which is the largest level load in our game. Combined with a RAM restriction, your machine may be moving slowly simply due to not having quite enough RAM (I.e. it may be writing some info to disk to compensate for not having enough RAM, which always slows things down).

I would suspect that as you progress further you will note the load times return to the speed they were in Act 1 for most of the scenes you encounter. There are a few others that are large, but if you're not crashing on Lethian's Crossing, I suspect that you will be fine for the other scenes

I am sorry I don't have a solution to offer for improving the load times in Lethian's Crossing though,
-David

 

[Moricat]

Good point - it is a fairly big area. Thankfully I'm just wrapping things up there.

Thanks again for the input.