Extremely long load times

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I recently bought CK2 and have been experiencing very long initial load times. When I start the game it takes anywhere from 10-15 minutes to actually get into the game. Even the paradox logo lingers for about 3 minutes. Furthermore I can't even alt-tab out of the game to do something else. Once I actually get into the game, everything runs perfectly fine it is only the start-up that takes an unusual amount of time. I am running a 2.3 Ghz dualcore i5 with 6gb of RAM and a GeForce GT 540M video card. Is there anyway to make this load time faster?

Edit: I should probably mention the things I've tried so far: Reinstalling, verifying cache integrity, updating graphics card drivers, restarting, and turning off trees. The issue still persists.

 

[Calbrenar]

I have a friend this happens too that we joke with a lot about where we make him load the game like 10 min before we do because it takes so long.

What kind of hard drives do you have? The game isn't that graphics intensive so it really doesn't make sense but we haven't figured out what it is yet.

 

[SaintEsteban]

Same here, and the lack of alt+tab bugs me most. I normally just leave CK2 open and minimized.

 

[AndrewT]

I recently bought CK2 and have been experiencing very long initial load times. When I start the game it takes anywhere from 10-15 minutes to actually get into the game. Even the paradox logo lingers for about 3 minutes. Furthermore I can't even alt-tab out of the game to do something else. Once I actually get into the game, everything runs perfectly fine it is only the start-up that takes an unusual amount of time. I am running a 2.3 Ghz dualcore i5 with 6gb of RAM and a GeForce GT 540M video card. Is there anyway to make this load time faster?

Edit: I should probably mention the things I've tried so far: Reinstalling, verifying cache integrity, updating graphics card drivers, restarting, and turning off trees. The issue still persists.

please post a dxdiag.txt (you can delete everything after the "Sound devices" section for brevity), settings.txt, system.log and error.log files (you'll need to rename the .log files to .txt to upload). Also open setup.log, search for "checksum", and paste that line only in here.

 

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Here you go, the setup.log line is [ck_application.cpp:782]: Checksum is CK2 v1.05c (LNGM) -126565281

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[Kailvin]

Cool tip: Set CKII to your monitors resolution and set windowed = yes in the settings. It puts it in borderless mode more or less. I am playing CKII and browsing the forums at the same time!

 

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Ok I think I figured it out! I created a userdir.txt with a single period and put it in the main directory per this post:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...ug-Reports&p=13379811&viewfull=1#post13379811

My load times dropped down to around 2 minutes now, which seems about standard going by some older posts on this topic. Thanks for your help everyone.

 

[AndrewT]

Here you go, the setup.log line is [ck_application.cpp:782]: Checksum is CK2 v1.05c (LNGM) -126565281

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All I can see in there is that your Intel video driver is over a year old, so try updating that. If that doesn't help, it's just a result of having an integrated video chipset instead of a real GPU.

Display Memory: 1696 MB
Dedicated Memory: 64 MB
Shared Memory: 1632 MB

The game requires 512mb of video memory, so almost all of that is coming from shared memory in your case.

 

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All I can see in there is that your Intel video driver is over a year old, so try updating that. If that doesn't help, it's just a result of having an integrated video chipset instead of a real GPU.

The game requires 512mb of video memory, so almost all of that is coming from shared memory in your case.

Hmm...well like I said above I think I already solved the problem but I do have a dedicated graphics card (1GB GeForce 540M), as well as an integrated chipset, don't know why the NVidia card doesn't show up in DxDiag but it does in system settings.

 

[AndrewT]

Hmm...well like I said above I think I already solved the problem but I do have a dedicated graphics card (1GB GeForce 540M), as well as an integrated chipset, don't know why the NVidia card doesn't show up in DxDiag but it does in system settings.

Then you have one of the switching cards, that effectively has two GPUS on one card. From what I've read here you can tell any given program which one to use.

 

[pacja]

You could also add CK2 process and its folder to the exception list of your on-access scanning anti-virus, if you have one. I use a version of Kaspersky and this greatly reduced some PI games load time (especially HoI3 FtM).