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Incredibly slow loading times suddenly (Games : S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl : Mods : STALKER Complete 2009 (2012) : Forum : General Discussion : Incredibly slow loading times suddenly) Locked
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Mar 31 2013 Anchor

I have searched, and have nowhere else I know to post this. First, I must say how great the Complete mods are. But, I have been running Complete for each STALKER game for about a year. I've never had a problem like this. When loading my save from ANY STALKER game, the load times take about 6 minutes to load, and the menu takes about 15 seconds to open. I've looked ALL over for a fix, but none of them seem to work. I'm running the games through Steam, so I've tried Verifying the cache, removing compatibility mod through regedit, and tried the no prefetching before start up, but they just do not work! As I said, STALKER runs perfectly fine on my computer at the highest settings, but it started slowly loading last week for some unknown reason. I had no changes to any of my system components, so, I'm at a loss. I really don't believe that the Complete mods are affecting the game in any way. I've tried reinstalling them, even without Complete, and they don't load any faster. I would REALLY appreciate if I could get some help with this awful bug, or whatever it is. I have nowhere else to look for a fix, and maybe a team who's been through all the files could have an answer.

Jan 20 2014 Anchor

We all have the same problem. Even without the mod.

Apr 1 2014 Anchor

It takes around 1 minute without mods and about 2 and half with lets say CSFM mod (which maybe is less graphic but more gmaplay based mod - adds quests, guns, revamps gun and armor stats, changes weather). I'm currently downloading Complete 2009 1.4.4 + realistic weapons and will later report on the loading times.

Also remember that all S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games are more hardware demanding that they theoretically should be. Even for SHoC 6 GB of ram are welcome (most of games contents are loded into ram) and an CPU with at least 3 GHz for a core is needed (number of cores doesn't matter as whole series utilizes only 2 cores).

Right now im running on: Intel Core i5-3350P* CPU, Crucial Ballistix 8 GB Ram, ASUS EAH 5770 1GB VRAM GPU and TAGAN 900 W PSU.

*P stands for No integrated GPU.

Edited by: lol3r_86

Apr 2 2014 Anchor

No need to worry my friend. This was quite a while back. The problem fixed itself. Thanks for your concern, though. ;)

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