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pjrabbit
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Getting sick of booting this game up and it taking 25-30 minutes to get to the character selection screen. I play a lot of games and this one is the ONLY one that takes more than 2 minutes to boot. Most of the games I play are massively bigger graphics-wise than this game. Fix it.
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Other than that, if it is fully patched and doesn't load within a minute then your PC has serious problems.
If STO is taking that long, its an issue somewhere with your install. Or are you playing once a week and the launcher is updating first ? That is still a really long time unless your on a very slow connection.
If the game is constantly patching files... turn on demand patching off and fully install the game.
Anyway ya not the game... I'm on a 2 year old mid range machine, and 12s is how long it just took me to go from engage to select.
5 year old laptop - 23s from engage to select.
Seems like a bad install maybe or the pooh launcher is doing that thing it does, or worst case you have an impending new hard drive purchase.
Is it 25-30 minutes or 2 minutes to boot into the game? Your numbers are not matching up. I have never encountered long boot times with STO. 5 minutes at most and that is when I alt-tab and for get the started the game.
Probably a good point... OP if your paying attention to the thread. Forget the game, probably a good time to back up anything important just in case.
Game does take a pretty good long time to boot up the first time if your using Linux... but that should be a one time shader building type thing, not on going.
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That is 100% on your end, even when I was using a normal hard drive it never took very long to load (I've been using an SSD for years so I don't remember exactly how long it took with a HDD, takes 15 seconds from clicking engage to loading the character select screen with my SSD).
Fix your computer.
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I've never gotten more then 10 mins(in fact probably not even more then 3 mins) from the time I press my desktop short cut to the moment I can move my character.
EDIT:I just timed my login based on my desktop clock and it took me less then 1 min to get from nothing to being able to do things in the game. (from 03:43:30 to 03:44:26 to be exact, oh and those numbers are in hh:mm:ss format), so it does seem suspect that anything on Cryptic's end (and thus something they could fix) would cause a 30 min boot time.
I play on a 7 year old laptop, and it takes a minute or so to get to the select screen. Personally, the first thing I would do is defragment my hard drive, failing that, start the game in safe mode...that usually solves loading issues.
I'm playing on an Xbox One that is a few years old and has seen better days, so the problem most certainly could be with my console. I just found it curious because, like the OP, I have other games that seem to run okay. STO seemed to be working fine up until a couple of weeks ago, but I've only been playing for a little over a month, so I'm not sure if I messed up something during a major update, perhaps. I have already attempted to uninstall and reinstall the game, as well as deleting temporary game data and cache. I usually get through one STO, but to attempt a second has become a guarantee that the game will freeze.
Should I post this in Bug Report for Xbox instead? Just occurred to me
Trust me, there's nothing wrong. It's loading in fine. I play on XB1S and X as well, and it loads no slower than my laptop. You will notice 'slower' loading if you are downloading updates, automactically or not. Uninstalling should only ever be done if the XB tells you to do so.
If you're an instant on/leave it on user, don't do that. I find there's one thing in common with people who report crashing and other issues and it's nearly always instant on, or not resetting after playing other games.
Some games are worse than others, depending how they tap the limited resources. Fallout 4 is a crash paradise if it isn't the only thing I do first.
Then again, could be a component failure, the southbridge is a reasonably common thing to go out along with HDDs
Yeah, I figured it's most likely on my end. Like I said, my Xbox has seen better days. I'm definitely no tech expert, so I likely messed something up LOL.
When you refer to instant on and reset, if I may clarify - I quit the game when I'm done playing for the day. Then start it up again the next day. I've also reset my entire console to factory default. Is that what you're referring to? I feel like I'm not on the right wavelength
I think he's talking about full shutdown of the console when you're done using it or basically just putting it in sleep mode.
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Full shutdown is called energy saver mode, and it's like a cold reboot. Flushes out the cache etc. We all know how long an Xbox One takes to start up which is why many people elect to go the instant on route.
However if your Xbox is getting on in years, it might not make much difference. With regards to this game it could be connection related, not necessarily anything on your end, it could be getting backed up along the way to the server and it's holding things up.
I have similar numbers, 6 years old laptop with CPU 2,3G - 25 sec.
So i would try force verification first, if it doesn't help, then reinstall it and if it doesn't, it probably you have something wrong with the disk.
Faster than console.
If the OP does honestly want feedback, please contact a member of the Mod team and we can open this again. Otherwise...
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