Alpha 3 Extreme long loading time in menu. [FIXED]

[deadwillrise]

In Alpha 3 (408 and 409) the loading time in the menu is extremely long.

It starts with the game itself which takes about 2 minutes to start up and in the mean time it is a black screen and my Windows Taskmanager keeps saying it's not responding, but after 2 minutes it starts up. Then in the menu, it doesn't matter which button I click but it will always load but only 2-5 minutes later. And when select some mods in the mods menu and want to close so that I can play the game it just freezes (can still move the mouse but nothing of the game seems to respond). I don't know what this is and I can only imagine this to be a bug because all of the previous versions worked fine.

I hope this will be fixed ASAP because it makes the game not so fun anymore with having to wait 5 minutes everytime you want to change anything in the menu.

EDIT: I selected some mods in the mods menu and tried to close it, but the game wouldn't respond so I closed the game. Now the game won't even start up anymore.

EDIT 2: Removed all the non-basic mods from the mods folder and the game starts up again but nothing else has changed.

EDIT 3: I reinstalled  Alpha 3 + deleted old files etc and now only the mods menu has a long loading time and the game still needs 2 min to load up + mods won't work because the game won't start when they are selected.

[Architect]

Well, I can tell you how to find and turn off the mods so that your game will actually start up again without loading the game in the first place, but im afraid i cant fix your long loading times.

[Tynan]

Seems you hit this rare issue:

http://ludeon.com/mantis/view.php?id=506

I've never seen it and only heard of a few people who had it. I'm going to have to do some work to fix it.

[longbyte1]

Wouldn't this problem have something to do with disk activity and fragmentation and such? Unless, of course, there are players who have this bug and are using an SSD.

[Tynan]

No amount of disk fragmentation would make it take that long to load. And it didn't happen in A2. It's a bug.

[iame6162013]

maybe there just ain't enough ram to run it?

[Fernbhoy]

think 8gb of ram is enough

[Spearhead]

I am also experiencing this issue, let me know if any logs/system specs would be helpful

[Tynan]

Yeah, we've seen this bug. I'm going to do a pass to solve it for Alpha 4. It's a tough bug because I can't repro it but I'll put in some profiling output to narrow it down with Evul, who also gets the bug consistently.

[Evul]

Yeah it happens accuationaly for me. It some times stop when I restart and starts again. It's a realy strange and hart to diagnose bug.

I have a threy that it might conflict with with some kind of running program. What programs do you (deadwillrise) run when you get this problem?

[deadwillrise]

I don't have any 'opened' programs but i have some programs running in the background such as: Avast Anti-Virus, Microsoft Security Essentials, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and NVIDIA-Settings but nothing more.

[Evul]

What graphic card are you using?

[daft73]

This is a stretch, but have you tried the ol' standby Defragging your pc. Updated drivers, dying hard drive, and is this exclusive to Rimworld, or is your PC generally tempermental/ or not. I hope your can get this worked out.

[Evul]

I have this problem periodically to. At the moment not...

[Evul]

Strang idea but worth trying. Set rimworld to autostart and restart the computer and se if the game take long time to start. (recommend you set the game to windowed mode.)