Which components reduce game load times?

Brazo · 15 Nov 2016 at 22:37

I already have a decent spec pc i7 4790k/gtx 1080/16gb and ssd's but certain games GTA v take an age to load. How can these load times be reduced?

I have a Samsung 950 pro m.2 nvme drive I could use if that would reduce load times?

MissChief · 15 Nov 2016 at 22:42

Absolutely. Any SSD will vastly improve any games load times.

Rroff · 15 Nov 2016 at 22:47

Game load times can be a bit of an oddity all sorts of things can have an impact though SSD is usually the big one.

arknor · 15 Nov 2016 at 22:51

gtav takes an age to load with an ssd

Mynight · 15 Nov 2016 at 22:55

Yeah GTA v won't be hugely better on a SSD. I have run mine on both and it was still painful

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Brazo · 15 Nov 2016 at 23:25

I currently run GTA V on 2 x 240 ssd in raid 0 but my nvme drive would be even faster if I whack it on there but it still seems slow!

I have watched it load on a PS4 though and I kid you not when it took 5 days!

Minstadave · 15 Nov 2016 at 23:27

Is it even storage limited? Might be CPU bound, what is your CPU usage during loading?

pingu666 · 15 Nov 2016 at 23:35

some games just suck at loading, or go through a lot of content

rfactor based games the menues lag when you add a bunch of cars

, and takes longer to start up, tracks dont effect it though.

but yeah ssd will help whatever game

Brazo · 15 Nov 2016 at 23:41

Minstadave said:
Is it even storage limited? Might be CPU bound, what is your CPU usage during loading?

Haven't checked it. Currently clocked at 4.6. It will go to 4.8 at acceptable heat levels but 4.6 is so much lower so that's where it stays.

Columbo · 16 Nov 2016 at 09:25

As above I've had installed on both a mech HDD and SSD and saw no perceivable benefit of it being on an SSD. BF1 seems to be the same.

VincentHanna · 16 Nov 2016 at 09:27

Define 'an age' for me.

GTA V single player takes about 30 seconds to load on my SSD, I think.

On Holiday · 16 Nov 2016 at 09:50

You cannot improve GTA V load times by buying hardware so I wouldn't recommend wasting your time or money.

A lot of it now is synchronization or server-side loading for most games.

AWPC · 16 Nov 2016 at 09:59

Most games use large data files & SSD makes little to no difference on loading times for these vs 2TB 7,200 HD with 64mb cache. Only games which will see a massive benefit are games which have lots of little files to load.

Smrtka · 16 Nov 2016 at 10:03

maybe get and pci e m.2, but yes SSD is the key component, then cpu that actually process the data...and ram. but SSD is the best improvement you can do.

Raumarik · 16 Nov 2016 at 10:03

Most SSDs will improve game performance but some like GTA V and Star Citizen (particularly Crusader/PTU) tend to be server limited to a degree.

Yaayuh! · 16 Nov 2016 at 10:05

Plenty O'Toole said:
You cannot improve GTA V load times by buying hardware so I wouldn't recommend wasting your time or money.

A lot of it now is synchronization or server-side loading for most games.

This.

A lot of the load times in games now are connecting and sync with servers, GTAV included.
An SSD will always help local loading.

Smrtka · 16 Nov 2016 at 10:14

Rossi~ said:
This.

A lot of the load times in games now are connecting and sync with servers, GTAV included.
An SSD will always help local loading.

In that case you need that fancy 1Gbps fiber

but I'd say its the server side that would throttle

On Holiday · 16 Nov 2016 at 10:20

Smrtka said:
In that case you need that fancy 1Gbps fiber but I'd say its the server side that would throttle

I've tried GTA V on a 1Gbps connection (full 1Gbps with 1ms latency) and it's exactly the same as my poor 16Mbps home connection, GTA loading just sucks

VincentHanna · 16 Nov 2016 at 10:22

So you are all talking about Multiplayer?

Smrtka · 16 Nov 2016 at 10:22

confirmed, gta 5 servers are potato and not even ssd raid will help, rip dreams

VincentHanna said:
So you are all talking about Multiplayer?

I'd guess so, SP is pretty fast load no ?