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DS9 beam in issues NEED FIX URGENT
borgx666
Member Posts: 127 Arc User
Cryptic ever since Season 11 the load in times for beaming down to DS9 are become a joke
its taking minutes to load in, on any character
please fix ASAP!
its taking minutes to load in, on any character
please fix ASAP!
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Thank you! I had been in the loading screen for over 20 minutes when I came here looking to report. Your suggestion worked immediately.
The double load on social zones has definitively been an annoyance since S10. Add in the map transition freeze that started a couple of weeks before S11 and it's a pain.
Still waiting to be able to use forum titles
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
To my shock, all of the zones that have been having loading problems - DS9, ESD, and New Romulus Staging Area (the absolute worst of the lot) - are having no issues at all. Everything loads perfectly fine, although obviously it looks pixelated.
People have already tested dropping to the lowest settings. It doesn't fix anything. This problem is entirely on cryptic's end.
I'm on the lowest possible setting, and it's completely resolved. When starting up, it says that driver doesn't meet system recommendations and asks if I want to start with lowered settings. Doing that has completely resolved the load time issues on my end.
Edit: I suppose I could now be below the lowest, if you're talking about just in game settings. I have no idea exactly what settings that warning applies.
What we're talking about isn't a graphics issue. For example, my system specs are well above the recommended specs for the game and I shouldn't be having any loading or FPS issues. I only started experiencing problems when season 10.5 launched. No amount of fiddling with in-game settings fixes the issue. It only got worse when season 11 launched.
It's already been confirmed by a bug-hunter in another thread, anyway, so at least it's hopefully going to get on the ever-growing to-do list.
I don't think you're understanding what I'm saying, which means others probably aren't either. In the hopes that this will be helpful to whomever has to actually try to fix this, I'll try to explain better.
I'm not (at least explicitly) doing anything with in-game settings. I'm getting messages from Windows XP on trying to load, and letting the computer reset with it's own "lowered settings."
Like a lot of people here probably, I have a top of the line computer with all the bells and whistles. No matter what I do, I have extremely long load times on that computer in certain areas - DS9, ESD, and New Romulus adventure zone (not embassy or command center).
While I'm recovering from surgery, I can't access that computer and decided to see if I could kill time with STO on a 10-yr old laptop. To my amazement, it actually runs, but before the game even loads XP gives me a warning about failing to meet system specs:
When I click "Yes, with lowered settings" I get in game just fine, and all of those problem zones load without the lag times. I've tried this multiple times, on multiple days, with multiple characters. The game looks crummy and pixelated, but I can get in and out of everywhere with no issues (save the double load screen that pops up for about 5 seconds). I finally managed to turn in those stupid eppohs I've been collecting.
There-in lies my point. One shouldn't have to run the game on TRIBBLE settings for it to actually work properly. From what I gather, from so many other similar problems, it's probably related to Direct X 11 and STO's incompatibility with it. They're using an antiquated engine for the game that just wasn't meant to work well with DX11. The problem isn't with our systems, it's with cryptic's programming.
And there I will 100% agree with you. What's the point of beautiful maps and retextures if loading them locks you out of key areas of the game?
I'm lead to believe there are a limited number of instances that can be created for each map. Numbers are high for places like ESD or special events, but numbers are low for other maps, like fleet bases. This is why you often have to wait a few moments for a fleet base map to load, the server is literally waiting for an instance to close before it can open one for you.
You would think this, but many zones have had as many as 100+ instances, so unless they limit certain ones whiles others are virtually infinite, would seem pretty lame IMO.
Personally, I just think it is a communication issue between the player(s), and the server when under heavy loads!
Basically a server diregarding people at times, so it can deal with other issues at hand!
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
Waiting for DS9 to load since 10mins as I type this...
Edit: It also happens on occasion with other maps too. Stuck in K7 loading screen ATM.