ArenaNet Staff Fire Attunement.9835 Posted January 16, 2020 ArenaNet Staff Share Posted January 16, 2020 Hi all, I have a message from James Fulop:We are aware of a new problem after Tuesday's Lunar New Year update that causes longer load times for some players. We have found the cause for this and will have a fix ready in time for the next regularly-scheduled release. The problem is related to the command-line option "-maploadinfo", so until then, disabling that option should help.-James Fulop, Engine Programmer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegeta.2563 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 I'll have to test the load times with it on and off with like a stopwatch to see how much of a difference it makes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virdo.1540 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 well for me it helped.It got way better, but still worse than before the patch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegeta.2563 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 @Virdo.1540 said:well for me it helped.It got way better, but still worse than before the patchBeen told by several people deleting your local.dat file (the one that stores your email & pass, and other various settings in game).. helps, but I don't feel like redoing all that lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virdo.1540 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 @Vegeta.2563 said:@Virdo.1540 said:well for me it helped.It got way better, but still worse than before the patchBeen told by several people deleting your local.dat file (the one that stores your email & pass, and other various settings in game).. helps, but I don't feel like redoing all that lolthat didnt worked for me and many others. so better not bothering with it.. (better save the time from adjusting the settings again^^) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nep Leet.5491 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 I delete my Local.dat file every few months to 'clear out' any wonkiness that can happen over time.And doing that for this issue did improve my load times--for a short while, then the load times got really bad again. Ultimately, removing the "mapLoadInfo" command line argument did fix the issue for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion.6590 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 This has been actually happening for a few months already, together with frame rate drops in bosses that changes your FoV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virdo.1540 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 @"Nep Leet.5491" said:I delete my Local.dat file every few months to 'clear out' any wonkiness that can happen over time.And doing that for this issue did improve my load times--for a short while, then the load times got really bad again. Ultimately, removing the "mapLoadInfo" command line argument did fix the issue for me.but isnt it a bit too annoying to always adjust the settings again after deleting it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yasi.9065 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 @"JasonLucas.4981" said:This has been actually happening for a few months already, together with frame rate drops in bosses that changes your FoVThis one I noticed as well.Removing maploadinfo did help some, the loading times still arent up to ssd standards though, so there has to be an additional issue. But at least Im not getting kicked anymore from grps/squads for "taking too long" ;p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaraFee.2579 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Thanks @Fire Attunement.9835 . Do you have any tips for players that get a white screen after logging in using fullscreen windowed mode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfc.9430 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Thank you for responding to this serious issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nep Leet.5491 Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 @Virdo.1540 said:but isnt it a bit too annoying to always adjust the settings again after deleting it?Hmm... not really? Its only the Sound and Graphic settings that I have to re-do and that takes less than a minute to do. Clearing out that Local.dat file has really helped resolve performance issues in the past, so its really worth it. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itsy.3186 Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 i dont use the maploadinfo and I have definitely noticed the increased load times. Funny enough, I have an Nvidia 2080 RTX card and saw in the patch notes that it would improve loading times for some Nvidia cards, but it looks like it did the opposite for mine??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itsy.3186 Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 @ClaraFee.2579 said:Thanks @Fire Attunement.9835 . Do you have any tips for players that get a white screen after logging in using fullscreen windowed mode?Oh I've had that since forever. Sometimes I even get two white windows, when I closed the game while on Windowed mode and the window was not on my main monitor. It opens a window in the main one, and a window in the other one, and then randomly it either keeps the one on the main or the secondary. Can't click on either cause it would ask me to force close! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegeta.2563 Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 So patch just hit.. I didn't see any notes on this fix. Is it still not shipped yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hell Nirvana.9045 Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Enabling it still results in abnormally long load times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crepuscular.9047 Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 @Vegeta.2563 said:@Virdo.1540 said:well for me it helped.It got way better, but still worse than before the patchBeen told by several people deleting your local.dat file (the one that stores your email & pass, and other various settings in game).. helps, but I don't feel like redoing all that lolit will wipe your graphics settings, so take a screenshot of your graphics settings before you delete local.dat; your key-binds will not be wiped.it seems to have work for a short while, but back to slow loading time overtime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArenaNet Staff Fire Attunement.9835 Posted February 3, 2020 Author ArenaNet Staff Share Posted February 3, 2020 Hi all, I checked with James and have an update on this issue. Due to a delay the fix is now going in with the February 11 update. We're sorry this is taking longer than planned, and appreciate your patience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
japkovy.8467 Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 Andrew, is there any chance for adding percentage progress on loading screens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnofab.3648 Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 Andrew, I would like to know if you have any intention of updating the game's graphics engine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MithranArkanere.8957 Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 @"insanelyapple.2870" said:Andrew, is there any chance for adding percentage progress on loading screens? You can add the command line argument -maploadinfo to your gw2 shortcut and it will show a lot of loading info, like whether it's still connecting to the server, if it's downloading or decompressing files, and the loading progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voidek.5738 Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 I didn't encounter any loading issues, but im mostly in old world and playing on low settings. Bmarches is loading longer though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 @MithranArkanere.8957 said:@"insanelyapple.2870" said:Andrew, is there any chance for adding percentage progress on loading screens? You can add the command line argument -maploadinfo to your gw2 shortcut and it will show a lot of loading info, like whether it's still connecting to the server, if it's downloading or decompressing files, and the loading progress.Of course, not until after this upcoming fix for -maploadinfo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itsy.3186 Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 Any chance you can take a look at why the trading post is being extremely slow the past few months? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegeta.2563 Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 @voidek.5738 said:I didn't encounter any loading issues, but im mostly in old world and playing on low settings. Bmarches is loading longer though.This only applied if you used -maploadinfo in your game's shortcut target command line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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