Thread: Extremely long initial loading

I have a higher level character with tons of items/shared storage etc.
I've got a pretty decent gaming rig:
i5-3550
7200 RPM Barricuda HD (brand new)
8GM DDR3 RAM
Geforce 560
Very fast internet (fibre op 100mb/s download rates)
I can run the game in ultra settings easily and even tweak all the other settings to max and it runs smooth (other than the constant lag spikes recently but that's another issue - i think) But it takes me 5+ minutes to load into the game initially. This drives me crazy. Is there any way to improve this? Would getting an SSD drive help?

If you have timed it and it is actually over 5 minutes, not subjectively 5 minutes, a SSD probably will not help much. I just timed my loading, with web browser and internet radio going in the background, and it took 2 min 10 sec to load all the way to my character standing in Esteldin craft hall. My rig isn't half of yours, Core 2 Duo processor, 4 GB RAM and a 6xxxx HD Radeon, 3MB internet.

Something on your rig is slowing things down and it doesn't seem to be the hardware. Somewhere I suspect you have a software bottleneck. A firewall, antivirus, excessive processes running in the background, bad hop to the servers, lots of possibilities. I would be fairly certain that it is not your hardware (if everything is mechanically good and nothing is failing or overheating) or Turbine - something is misconfigured, being a resource hog or something like that on your machine.

SSD would help immensely because you're possibly bottlenecking from HDD speeds. The other thing that will help, despite being a pain in the rear is uninstalling and downloading a fresh copy of the game. A vast majority of cruddy load times are due to files that are corrupt to various degrees, so a clean slate will speed things up amazingly! (It worked great on my older machine)

I have a similar problem with all of my characters that have gone into Enedwaith, Dunland, or Great River.

The disk grinds away while the character loads.

I suspect that it is an implementation "feature" related to the phasing technology.

If you do notice a lot of disk thrashing, IOBit Smart Defrag is what I use. It does a better job of defragging and optimizing the game files than the Microsoft one. I have not downloaded a new version of the game in years. I keep a backup copy on an external hard drive that i copy over whenever I do an OS install or upgrade.

One thing you could try is to copy the game files to another drive or memory stick, defrag the drive, then coppy it back choosing to overwrite and replace the existing files. It is amazing how much this will sort and clean up the files.

a good idea is to set the graphs to very low when starting a load screen and when that has finished popping it back to ultra high again(worked for me) it may cost some time to set the graphs but it won't take that long





PEACE

If it happens that you are in SoCal, perhaps some of your issue is related to the Time Warner cable thread here?

http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...49#post6248249

The higher the level of the character to login the longer it takes as the game has to get all the Quest/deed info and send it to you, level 1 can login in under 30 seconds verses a level 75 that will take currently about 2-3 mins on a busy night.

Originally Posted by 0Pinger

The higher the level of the character to login the longer it takes as the game has to get all the Quest/deed info and send it to you, level 1 can login in under 30 seconds verses a level 75 that will take currently about 2-3 mins on a busy night.

Oh agreed. But 5+ minutes, even for a lvl 75 on a Friday evening primetime seems a bit much - and seems more of a software issue than a hardware one.