Battle and port loading time. What gives?

[killer999death]

Alright I'm getting annoyed and pissed at the game as of late. 

In closed beta things were running smooth, battles for me loaded within the 20 second counter but after closed beta things just went SHEBANG!


After closed beta my battles load AT BEST 40 seconds into the battle, that is 1 minute if I take the 20 second countdown. Often the battle loads well into the 18th minute of the match which is annoying as fudge. 


Also the port loves to load a minute aswell. The interface is there and functioning, can even start battles, but the ship and port scene loads slow.


PC spec:

OS: Win7 
CPU: Intel i5 3570K

Ram 8gb ddr3
GPU: Nvidia GTX 760OC

I have tried closing down background programs to lighten up the load. I uninstalled WoWs from my old disk and installed it to a freshly bought (slightly faster even) disk to see if it would help but it is still the same.

 

 

What do?

[Armo1000]

This is a long standing problem with the game that people have been debating about for quiet some time now. Unfortunately there is nothing you can do sept hope that WG optimize the game better.

 

Or buy an SSD as some people have said. but i dont think even that will fix it.

[killer999death]

This is a long standing problem with the game that people have been debating about for quiet some time now. Unfortunately there is nothing you can do sept hope that WG optimize the game better.

 

Or buy an SSD as some people have said. but i dont think even that will fix it.

Despite using the search option and gazing over countless titles I haven't found any 'fresh' ones. Best I found was from beta

[Elenortirion]

That perfect timing - I was just about to make a thread about same issue:

My PC is AMD Phenom II quad x965 BE CPU with 8GB DDR RAM and AMD Radeon HD 8750 GPU.

before patch 0.5.1 (up to 0.5.0.3) game was loading very smoothly - the worst thing I could get was to see the last 4 seconds of countdown displayed on loading screen after which I got instanly dropped ito teh game (with screen switching taking up to MAXIMUM 10 seconds) and often I was capable to load onto map ever earlier and have that 20 seconds to talk up strategy with other guys that loaded up

 

after the update 0.5.1 I practicall never have such a chance - I am ALWAYS loaded late into the battle and many times the loading bar does not move from 0 until I start to see teammates starting off their ships on the objective map.... which means game does not start to load until the match I'm loading to even starts not to mention that when the loading bar gets to full it dissappears and for next minute I see that anchor loading icon furiously rotating - did I mentioned that it doesn't even show the countdown to me on the loading screen?

 

for how much I'm late into the "lucky" scenario the zone map fits perfectly - when I finally get into the map the zone claiming countdown is down to 30 seconds which means minute and half of being late which is actually huge amount considering that I play as DD and I could easilly be far ahead scouting for my team by that time...

 

and then after battle glorious 5 minutes of anchor-loading icon on a black background for the docks to appear....

 

and nothing really helps and I tried alot

 

[friend of mine says that he encounters this only after he updated system to win10 and he claims that he did so after 0.5.1 update although I'm doubting his memory on this case]

[tomorrow will try to specifically defragment game fodler (instead of just partition wher games sists in case of it being issue of game terribly messing up with fragmentation on updates - and to OP - did you tried that yet? if not you give it a shot ]

[KptStrzyga]

I have two computers, destktop and laptop. Laptop is first gen intel I7 with 4 gb Gtx graphic card and 4 Gb of RAM. Ok, it`s old laptop, but game should be loading a bit faster then 1 minute after battle starts.

My desktop is good rig made for gaming: 6 core AMD A-series CPU, 12 Gb of RAM and GTX 970 and I`m still very often late in battle. Don`t tell me it`s because this PC is slow, it isn`t. It`s good enough for Witcher 2, Fallout 4 and GTA5 in ultra details. Not good enough for ships? Oh pls.

If WG can`t fix it (ffs, they really should!!) why don`t they make waiting time before battle longer, so we can play with two full teams from the start?  

[NettiWelho]

I've had couple of games where I've been sunk before the game has finished loading the battle for me.

[JapLance]

I think the problem lies in the number and size of textures that the game loads. Using the 50% textures size mod might help a bit for some loss of quality.

[chazwozza]

Get more ram it may help

recently cleaned my machine and noticed that the loading times were as you said

Then realised that one of my 8 gig sticks hadn't been seated correctly and machine only recognised 8 gig

once I reseated it and was back on to 16 gig things sped up and we're back to normal 

[KptStrzyga]

Get more ram it may help

recently cleaned my machine and noticed that the loading times were as you said

Then realised that one of my 8 gig sticks hadn't been seated correctly and machine only recognised 8 gig

once I reseated it and was back on to 16 gig things sped up and we're back to normal 

 

I have 12 Gb of RAM. Stop telling me it`s not enough for a game built on almost 15 years old engine designed for first Pentiums. 

[Unfortunate_Son]

I've had couple of games where I've been sunk before the game has finished loading the battle for me.

 

Same. Just lost my 3x multiplier and +50% xp flag in a game like that. A win but zero contribution.

[ShuggieHamster]

other captains shouldnt worry ... if i'm i the game I will be last in. I've got into the game just in time to get the fighter away to defend against air attack (just DB's fortunately).

the kit I've got isnt bad ... about 3 years old but man is it slow lo load.

[Armo1000]

Despite using the search option and gazing over countless titles I haven't found any 'fresh' ones. Best I found was from beta

 

The search really isn't as great as people make it out to be. most times i use it i get nothing close to what i searched for.

[Shawer6]

I have the same problem, so i filed a ticket in tech support, the game was really fast when first played it but after a few weeks the game started to disconnect mid game and through me back into the login screen and I had to login again to renter battle, few days later the game started freezing at start with -35 ms, then a player suggested to reinstall the game, so I did, now the login alone takes 4-5 min, and if logged ! the battle doesn't start until the game is 5-6 min started, and if you could play and didn't get kicked into the login screen you're already late and your ship is already destroyed . so I gave up this game is not that great any way , and now I'm waiting for the ticket to resolve if anyone have a fix please replay because I read these comments were posted last year and here I am facing the same problem this game must have really bad tech support ?

 

 

 

[YukiEiriKun]

More ships = more stuff to load. I think the first time this happened was when US battleboats and IJN carriers came out.

 

Well that's my view of the issue anyhow. The more we have different ships, the more assets the game has to load and thus the loading times grow. This latest issue came along the KM BB's.

 

(i may be way off here, but this is how I excuse the issue)

[Shawer6]

I have five ships in port ?

[Shawer6]

I have five ships in port ?

 

​I started playing this game two months ago and it was fine without any issues ?

[piet11111]

Just sitting in port it gobbles up 1 gb of ram havent got the time to see what it does in battle.

Seems to be very ram hungry at first glance.

[MaxxyNL]

I have World of Warships installed on 2 laptops with SSD's and on 1 older laptop without a SSD.

On all 3 installs i am loaded into the battle with 25-30 sec. left before the start of the battle.

 

So i guess a SSD is not the (100% fix) solution for the problems that people are experiencing with the loading times.

Poor game optimization by Wargaming is what is causing the problems, a SSD drive won't fix bad game optimization....

 

500/500 Mbps fibre power

[Ghostychan]

Lately I've been experiencing windows' system process having a constant access on the HDD/SSD, limiting reading speeds of every other application drastically. When everything is fine, WoWS is loading with about 500MB/s. When this OS hiccup occurs, something between 5 and 25 MB/s (causing me the enter the battle multiple minutes after it started). While I'm still trying to fix the problem permamently, I can solve it temporarily by restarting my PC.

 

TL;DR: It's not always the games fault if it doesn't load fast enough or it takes an eternity. Sometimes it is something else entirely, preventing it from loading properly

[Shawer6]

I have World of Warships installed on 2 laptops with SSD's and on 1 older laptop without a SSD.

On all 3 installs i am loaded into the battle with 25-30 sec. left before the start of the battle.

 

So i guess a SSD is not the (100% fix) solution for the problems that people are experiencing with the loading times.

Poor game optimization by Wargaming is what is causing the problems, a SSD drive won't fix bad game optimization....

 

500/500 Mbps fibre power

I can confirm this I have the game installed on SSD and have 16 GB of ram so the problem isn't the computer performance ..

[Kastike]

I too started to suffer from extended loading times, this started when second to latest patch came out. I run this game from SSD yet it doesn't make any difference. Just wondering, are guys having issues with loading, as in the time when you're having that loading bar visible - or are you stuck in "waiting players" part? I "load" the matches quickly, if I am supposed to believe the loading bar, and get that "start battle" button, I can click it with all my might as long as I want, but I still can't get into to the game until some (this varies greatly on match to match basis) time has passed.

[Shawer6]

I get stuck at login for 4 min at least then if pressed the battle button the game starts loading players for a 2 min while the game has already started and if i logged into battle and not kicked into the game login screen (rare) I'm hardly able to play 3 min before get kicked out again into the game login screen ?

[MaxxyNL]

The only problem i am experiencing, is the stutter that happens in port. 

[Captain_Singleton]

no problems here, i load in with 20-25 seconds to spare, with a pretty bad internet connection (7meg max but usually more like 3meg and ping between 35-70)

pentium G3258

msi R9 380 4gb

samsung evo 850 250gb SSD

[Exocet6951]

Crisp loading times with over 30 seconds to spare at the start of the battle with a mid-range (by European standards) computer a few months ago, during the optimization patch that compressed the client files.

 

Noawadays? Randomness.

I either load with 10 seconds to spare, or 20 seconds late. It could be the same map twice in a row, with basically the same ships in the battle ( [insert joke about the current meta] ), and the loading times will still be drastically different.