How to improve loading times

[vinceguldo]

Does anyone have tips on how to reduce the loading time of the game? I haven't played much during the last year but back when I was playing it used to take around 2 minutes from double clicking the icon to landing to the starting menu, with a Mod folder of 25 GB. Now it's 57 GB and it takes around 5 minutes. It's almost all staff from MrRakkon save so I can't  trim the Mod folder so I was wondering if there's any trick (apart from better hardware) to reduce the loading time, maybe merging lot of CC together would help? Reducing the subfolders? Singing Electronic Arts backwards?

[DuoMaxwell003]

You're drive can have a lot to do with it. 3.5 hdd are slow. A 2.5 SSD is slightly faster with read and write times. A M.2 NVME drive is almost twice as fast as a SSD. If you have a Mod manager program you can use it to check for duplicate files and then delete them is can increase load time and help with issues in the game. 

[ungodlytomato]

if you have some texture mods which are loose i guess packing them into bsas would help

[vinceguldo]

17 hours ago, DuoMaxwell003 said:

You're drive can have a lot to do with it. 3.5 hdd are slow. A 2.5 SSD is slightly faster with read and write times. A M.2 NVME drive is almost twice as fast as a SSD. If you have a Mod manager program you can use it to check for duplicate files and then delete them is can increase load time and help with issues in the game. 

Ok, I have the mod folder on my SSD but the game on the HD so it might be an issue. Anyway it seems there is no magic trick apart from having a better hardware 

[PECO]

45 minutes ago, vinceguldo said:

Ok, I have the mod folder on my SSD but the game on the HD so it might be an issue. Anyway it seems there is no magic trick apart from having a better hardware 

Better hardware helps, but honestly, there are no miracles to be had with the loading times.

I have the game + Mods (which I have only about 10GB of) on an M.2 drive + have 32GB of fairly fast DDR5 memory, yet first time cold launching TS4 from the EAapp takes about 1 minute to reach the main menu, and another 1 minute to resume a saved game. Subsequent game starts usually take less time, but it still clocks in at about 1m20s from EAapp to a fully loaded save... so taking your situation into account, a loading time of 5mins for a game with a 57GB mod folder using HDD/SSD is not even that bad. ?

Edited June 29, 2023 by PECO.

[Crazy Doll]

The more you add DLC / Packs / Expansion / Mods / CCs, tje more game needs are hifh (hardware). Game + Mods on a SSD are a minimum if your mod folder is really big.

As example got a i5 8go ram + GTX 1650 with 100Gb+ mod folder, on my HDD game takes around 5mins to launch, on my SSD it's something like 1min. And I only have 4 expansions + 3 DLCs.

Edited June 29, 2023 by Crazy Doll

[Guest]

I've also merged mods into one package, depending on the type, and loading the game during startup does go much faster.

Only drawback is making sure that recolor/retexture mods have their meshes included as well.