Question about loading times : V

» Thu May 10, 2012 4:45 am

Anyone else on Pc having long loading times?

I should be loading faster than it is, sometimes it loads quickly but mot of the time the game takes 2-3+ minutes to load.
I was just wondering if anyone else had this problem on the PC.

I have a AMD 6 core at 2.9 Ghz
8 Gigs of DDR 3 1066
XFX 5870.
Standard HDD, 7200 RPm.
Others are saying the game loads so fast they don't have time to read the tips, while it takes ages for it to load in my case.

» Thu May 10, 2012 7:32 am

Anyone else on Pc having long loading times?

I should be loading faster than it is, sometimes it loads quickly but mot of the time the game takes 2-3+ minutes to load.
I was just wondering if anyone else had this problem on the PC.

I have a AMD 6 core at 2.9 Ghz
8 Gigs of DDR 3 1066
XFX 5870.
Standard HDD, 7200 RPm.
Others are saying the game loads so fast they don't have time to read the tips, while it takes ages for it to load in my case.

nope mine is going quite fast and my specs a lower then yours maybe turn some stuff off in the background?

» Thu May 10, 2012 7:47 am

Anyone else on Pc having long loading times?

I should be loading faster than it is, sometimes it loads quickly but mot of the time the game takes 2-3+ minutes to load.
I was just wondering if anyone else had this problem on the PC.

I have a AMD 6 core at 2.9 Ghz
8 Gigs of DDR 3 1066
XFX 5870.
Standard HDD, 7200 RPm.
Others are saying the game loads so fast they don't have time to read the tips, while it takes ages for it to load in my case.

I've got 8 Gigs of DDr 1600mhz RAM. An i5-2500k processor and a GTX560ti videocard, and the same type of Hard Disk.. I'm running the game with all settings (except the resolution) maxed, and to be honest the loading times are so short that I can barely take a look at the 3D figures that appear.

» Thu May 10, 2012 1:35 am

Others are saying the game loads so fast they don't have time to read the tips

That's my case, but it's because I have Skyrim loaded on an SSD.

» Thu May 10, 2012 1:00 am

Anyone else on Pc having long loading times?

I should be loading faster than it is, sometimes it loads quickly but mot of the time the game takes 2-3+ minutes to load.
I was just wondering if anyone else had this problem on the PC.

I have a AMD 6 core at 2.9 Ghz
8 Gigs of DDR 3 1066
XFX 5870.
Standard HDD, 7200 RPm.
Others are saying the game loads so fast they don't have time to read the tips, while it takes ages for it to load in my case.

No problems with load times for me. Main menu loads very fast and the transition between interior / exterior is about 3 seconds

Have you defragged your Hard drive?

Wiley

» Thu May 10, 2012 2:27 am

No problems with load times for me. Main menu loads very fast and the transition between interior / exterior is about 3 seconds

Have you defragged your Hard drive?

Wiley

Yes, with autologistic disk defrag, I just restarted the PC and installed soem widows update. Ill shut down all programs that are not needed and see what that does.

» Thu May 10, 2012 6:31 am

No problems with load times for me. Main menu loads very fast and the transition between interior / exterior is about 3 seconds

Have you defragged your Hard drive?

Wiley

It should only take seconds... you may have a bad cable to your hard drive, even a fragged drive couldn't be that slow. Your drive is ~50 times too slow. A fragged drive might be half the speed, but nothing like this.
If you have an extra SATA cable laying around replace your current cable, with the computer off. Or swap with the one on your DVD drive.
Constant transmit errors from the drive and retransmission of the data leads to terrible performance... I have seen drives generating tens of millions off errors per minute.

If that isn't it, it may be a driver issue with your drive controller.
I'm an IT consultant, those are my two best guesses, good luck

» Wed May 09, 2012 11:06 pm

My load times are so short I can barrely manage to make out what the object is, not to say READ the damn text.
I really wanted to read what it said about the saber cat, which I obviously couldnt miss, but before I thought of it the game had loaded.

» Thu May 10, 2012 1:09 am

It should only take seconds... you may have a bad cable to your hard drive, even a fragged drive couldn't be that slow. Your drive is ~50 times too slow. A fragged drive might be half the speed, but nothing like this.
If you have an extra SATA cable laying around replace your current cable, with the computer off. Or swap with the one on your DVD drive.
Constant transmit errors from the drive and retransmission of the data leads to terrible performance... I have seen drives generating tens of millions off errors per minute.

If that isn't it, it may be a driver issue with your drive controller.
I'm an IT consultant, those are my two best guesses, good luck

Well I have something else I am going to try first.
Otherwise Battlefield 3 and Rage played perfectly fine. This is the first time I have had this issue.

What I am going to do is wipe steam and the game and save my game files. Then reinstall it all and see if that fixes it.
I doubt that it is a bad drive, or a cable but you never know. Thanks for the suggestion.
After I wipe steam and the game ill make sure it was not a issue there.

» Thu May 10, 2012 7:33 am

For me they're 2 seconds long, which was kinda surprising

» Thu May 10, 2012 1:38 am

No idea now, other games working fine. Skyrim is loading really slow and among my friends I am the only one with this problem.
I tried a new cable, tired a fresh install (the game and steam) and now I am out of ideas.

» Thu May 10, 2012 7:15 am

I am out of ideas, nothing ahs worked. The game is great as long as I do not have to switch betwen areas. Once I get it to load the game is fine.

None of my other games are having any issues, BF3 works fine as did Iracing.

Anymore ideas, please?

» Thu May 10, 2012 6:10 am

Going to bring this back up top with something I found.

If I alt tab out of the game and back in (when it lets me) the game loads as soon as I tab back in. If I alt-ctrl-del and then hit cancel (windows 7) the game loads instantly.
However if I sit and wait the game takes 30 seconds to a few minutes to load at times, yet other times it loads instantly without my help.

I am sure this means something to someone, but I am not sure what and who. If anyone has any ideas that would be great.

Thanks.

» Thu May 10, 2012 2:07 am

Wow with those specs you should be rocking, I'm only a dual core and my loading screens still go by faster then I can read them.

» Thu May 10, 2012 7:58 am

Nope, mine are lightning fast.

» Thu May 10, 2012 6:44 am

My load times are so short I can barrely manage to make out what the object is, not to say READ the damn text.
I really wanted to read what it said about the saber cat, which I obviously couldnt miss, but before I thought of it the game had loaded.

YEP THIS ^

» Wed May 09, 2012 7:24 pm

My loading times are so fast that i never have the time to read through the tip

» Wed May 09, 2012 4:32 pm

There's loading times?!? :whistling:

Two or three seconds here :intergalactic:

» Thu May 10, 2012 4:11 am

Some of the fatest load times I've ever experienced in a game. It's literally:

Run Skyrim from Steam, click play
Bethesda logo pops up, menus appears 5 seconds later
Click continue
Game loads in about 5 seconds
Play
Enter house
Interior loads up in about 2 seconds
Go back outside
Outside loads up in about 2 seconds

» Thu May 10, 2012 3:08 am

My initial load is pretty long, all after that are <5 seconds. Good enough for me but apperantly slower than a lot of people here.

» Wed May 09, 2012 6:21 pm

there has to be something that is not set right, something on my system is causing this.

I have tried all manner of AA and AF setting in the AMD overdrive, I tried auto saves off, I tried AA and AF off. For some reason if I tab away from the game it will load right up just fine. The only thing I know left to try is windowed mode (bah) and V-sync settings.
The game will load up just as fast as I tab away or hit alt-crtl-del or tab out.
Otherwise it just sits there loading for minutes.

» Wed May 09, 2012 5:38 pm

Playing in windowed mode (yuck) at native resolution yielded results.
A bit of a load time at start up, and almost instant loads in area translations.

No idea why this affects the game, but it does for me.

» Thu May 10, 2012 6:37 am

maybe they wanted you to read theyre tips ? for all of uss?

» Thu May 10, 2012 7:11 am

Playing in windowed mode (yuck) at native resolution yielded results.
A bit of a load time at start up, and almost instant loads in area translations.

No idea why this affects the game, but it does for me.

If it loads quickly for you in windowed then I recommend trying this: http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=4

» Thu May 10, 2012 3:16 am

They're actually almost too fast, I can never read the cool loadscreens because the load takes about 2 seconds.

I'm certainly not complaining.