October update load times

[SgtButsy]

Has anyone noticed the load times since the update have increased substantially?  

[zildac]

52 minutes ago, SgtButsy said:

Has anyone noticed the load times since the update have increased substantially?  

Even upon second load of a mission/map and module or every time?

[MAXsenna]

Has anyone noticed the load times since the update have increased substantially?  

Like @zildac implies. After every update, the shaders might be rebuilt. So it will take some additional time every time you fly another map or module the first time.
That said, I monitor the DCS.log file with a live log viewer whenever I start or play. And it seems the way shaders are generated/built have changed, and it's much quicker, and that's interesting. The game in general seems to run faster and smother with this patch. Could be placebo of course.
If it takes longer time every time, I suggest you exclude Saved Games and the DCS core folder in your Anti-Virus solution. That will make the game load faster, and maybe run smoother.

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[Sprool]

i too find load times into missions really r e a l l y slow, and multiplayer missions even slower. Even clicking on a module in f10 map to go to f2 view seems to halt the game for 30 - 40 seconds.

[silverdevil]

6 hours ago, SgtButsy said:

Has anyone noticed the load times since the update have increased substantially?  

 

5 hours ago, MAXsenna said:

Like @zildac implies. After every update, the shaders might be rebuilt. So it will take some additional time every time you fly another map or module the first time.
That said, I monitor the DCS.log file with a live log viewer whenever I start or play. And it seems the way shaders are generated/built have changed, and it's much quicker, and that's interesting. The game in general seems to run faster and smother with this patch. Could be placebo of course.
If it takes longer time every time, I suggest you exclude Saved Games and the DCS core folder in your Anti-Virus solution. That will make the game load faster, and maybe run smoother.

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to include what Max states, make sure you have the appropriate folders excluded in AV. if some DLL is new, it may take time for it to be scanned.

[Art-J]

Interesting.

I've noticed every first game launch after reboot (and only that one) seems to be quite longer indeed. So it's not a shaders-related symptom as they're already there.

Maybe authorization-related? Because of disc space limitations I had to manually move my DCS folder to another drive so I'm not sure if updater needs more time to find things on my PC, though I always thought it only needed to connect to master server to check what content I'm authorized to use (?). Folder location shouldn't be a factor then.

All MS Defender exclusions are active by the way.

EDIT - problem solved on my part, see post below.

Edited November 3, 2024 by Art-J

[silverdevil]

2 hours ago, Art-J said:

Interesting.

I've noticed every first game launch after reboot (and only that one) seems to be quite longer indeed. So it's not a shaders-related symptom as they're already there.

Maybe authorization-related? Because of disc space limitations I had to manually move my DCS folder to another drive so I'm not sure if updater needs more time to find things on my PC, though I always thought it only needed to connect to master server to check what content I'm authorized to use (?). Folder location shouldn't be a factor then.

All MS Defender exclusions are active by the way.

another thing to try for curiosity sake is Process Monitor. it will show what is running (files loaded, etc)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon

one can find out the slower files. even what shaders are being created.

[Art-J]

A major "D'oh" moment for me. Realized why I was getting longer 1st startup times on my config - I effin' forgot to update Defender exclusion list after moving my DCS folder to another drive! Did just that now and all is fine again with loading times.

[Mikke_EAF331]

On 11/3/2024 at 6:44 PM, Art-J said:

A major "D'oh" moment for me. Realized why I was getting longer 1st startup times on my config - I effin' forgot to update Defender exclusion list after moving my DCS folder to another drive! Did just that now and all is fine again with loading times.

I have also noticed a big increase in load times when entering the cockpit in a MP mission since the last updates. I have not excluded DCS from Windows built in AV, if it continues to be slow (part of it is probably the rebuilding of shaders) I will try excluding DCS.