Abysmal SSD loading times

Run ME:A off a HDD with my system on an SSD and load times are very fast despite running the game at Ultra quality, I dont know why yours would be running slow but perhaps you're running background tasks which interfere with your I/O load?

Same here (except I never had an infinite one). Initial load time when loading a gmae on a big planet (e.g. Eos) from the main menu is about 30 seconds. When loading a game in the same map as before it's about 5-10 sec. Loading times between maps in game are neglegable as they are mostly covered up by videos (on fast travel between forward stations it's 5-10 sec, maybe).

All in all, I think it's pretty good.

Sounds like it might be regenerating the shader cache or some other background task.

What do you mean by optimized?

Nope, it's super fast for me. Granted I got a fairly fast CPU, lots of RAM and the SSD too, so... yeah all good here.

My PC is hardly top of the line more mid range but my loading scenes in game are relatively fast on an SDD. If i fast travel on a planet im looking at under 5 seconds. The tram loads instantly after the 2-3 second animation. Loading up a planet for the first time is around 5 seconds in game more like 5-10 from main menu. I was pleasantly surprised for the loading times on MEA they are faster than BF1/DAI which are 2 other games i have on this frostbite engine.

Specs

Samsung 800 EVO SSD 500GB
I5 6600k
970GTx
16GB Ram DDR4

NOTE: For Win 10 only
Click on the File Icon or This PC
Right-click on your SSD drive - select Properties
Click on the Tools Tab
Click on the Optimize Button -- Optimize and defragment drive
That will open another window with all drives listed - both SSDs and Hard Drives

No problems at all, and I am running MEA from an old 2nd gen SSD (350MB/s or something). Super fast. Had the stuck at loading screen bug once in 88 hours.

Literally everyone says its fast for them but maybe it depends what you call fast.

I think there's a bug that causes very long loading sometimes, but it's not always.  I can load up the game fresh in about 20 - 25 seconds normally, but sometimes it literally takes 3 minutes.  Even when I've played the game and simply die, loading has the chance of going that long.  Haven't experienced it fast traveling though.

Check this out:



They tested modern games loading times while looking at actual drive read speeds.

Turns out, the drives are not the bottleneck. During loading times, the data is being read on average of 20 mb/s with peaks at 100 mb/s, which is 5-20% of what standard SATA SSDs can do. And they had 0% improvement with NVME over classical SATA drives.

So... yeah.

Yeah. 

And I can testify myself that I noticed no improvement in loading times when I transfered my copy of DAI and MEA from hybrid SSHD to SSD. Don't know about regular HDDs but probably not much difference either if it never goes past 100 mb/s. You can test it yourself. And yes, I know there are many other benefits with SSDs like shorter access times and so on, but we're talking loading times here and those are the same, unless you would have for example an extreme case of fragmented and old HDD.

But if you're saying your MEA loadings are "abysmal" it still hits me as bit of an odd thing, as load times are quite fast for me compared to DA:I. About 3 times as fast as DA:I I would dare to bet. But the downside is that a lot of content is being streamed in after, specially the first 10 seconds everything is stuttering like hell (and never ends later, in smaller doses). It did load for much longer when I first started the game and the MP lobby, I would guess it was unpacking the files at that time, but now it's quite snappy. Now if only the game ran that snappy as well.