City taking a long time to load

[coreyo 0]

Hi everyone. I started playing SC4 again but I'm having some issues. When I first start SC4 and go to load any city, even start a new one, it takes upwards of five minutes to load. No matter what region or city I select, it always takes at least a few minutes. When the city loads up, everything is fine. I don't experience any crashes or major issues. The kicker is that once I exit back to my region and load that city again or load any other city in that region or another, it loads up just fine. It only takes a long time to load when I first start up the game and load the first city. Per the sticky, here's my info:

 

-Running SC4 Rush Hour with the latest update plus the latest NAM update. No other extras are installed that I know of. 

-Specs:

Asus G51vx Notebook

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit

Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 @ 2.00 Ghz (2 CPUs), ~2.0 Ghz

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

286 GB HD w/ 143 GB available

4096MB RAM

Page File: 1983MB used, 6204MB available

DirectX 11

 

What I've tried so far:

-Desktop shortcut is set up so I can run program as an admin, I have this in part of the shortcut "-d:directx  -f -CPUcount:1" without quotes of course, I've tried running in compatibility mode for Windows XP SP 2 and 3 and Windows 2000.

-I have put the game down to lowest settings. I have also tried running under software rendering instead of hardware. 

-I have NOT done a fresh install yet but will try tomorrow.

 

If I remember anything else, I'll drop another post in here. Thanks in advance!

[smr_101 0]

Mine doesn't even load at all...

[Magneto 316]

I'm having the exact same issue: first tile takes a solid 3 minutes to load then all subsequent tiles load much faster (30 secs). Since you stated you have the latest NAM, I highly suspect it to be the reason why the first city you load takes forever: I never had this problem before installing NAM 31.

 

ANyways; the NAM devs are working on 31.1 which will likely sort this out as the controller file size will be much smaller.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Mine doesn't even load at all...

You need to start a new, detailed, thread.

Second post for everyone else on this thread:  Are your GPU 3D settings marked such that they are only set if the requesting program does it?

[coreyo 0]

Mine doesn't even load at all...

You need to start a new, detailed, thread.

Second post for everyone else on this thread:  Are your GPU 3D settings marked such that they are only set if the requesting program does it?

I changed the settings for my card but no difference. Magneto: Good point. Now that I remember, the problem might have started when I installed the new NAM version. I'm going to try removing it and report back.

[lhrob 213]

I think it happens with a lot of us.  I just twiddle my thumbs or dust off my keyboard while it's loading.

[coreyo 0]

Sure enough, uninstalling the NAM worked! I think I'll wait for the next patch for the NAM. Thanks everyone for your help!

[Bdub01 201]

I think it happens with a lot of us. I just twiddle my thumbs or dust off my keyboard while it's loading.

I just watch tv or listen to a song! I just assumed it was because I just started using custom content now. I have the pervious NAM but I did originally install the new NAM but uninstalled it when my cities wouldn't load at all. Now just the person who started this thread said the first time I load a city it's between 3-5 mins but then after that no more than 30 seconds. Go figure.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

In the initial load situation, all the plugins are traversed.  After that, probably only the ones used in the city.

[dogma555 187]

The more mods and bats the longer the loads.

 

NAM indeed accounts for the biggest chunk of it though.. but its well worth the wait.

[Superbacon 380]

I could go grab something to eat in the time it takes to load a plugin heavy city of only 24,000 on a large tile. The new NAM is also causing the game to crash during saves, then I lose what ever I've done. Makes me scared to play, honestly. Saves are my only safeguards against crashing.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Delete V31 and install V30.  Wait for V31.1.  You got along without it before and a short wait will allow you to play.