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BolivianMobstah
3 years ago

Long boot up time and even longer time to join games

Problem: It takes around 10 minutes for the game to start (time between me clicking the Desktop shortcut to launch the game and arriving at the main menu) and it takes 10-15 to go from the main menu and load into a game (after countdown in queue ends/loading screen for the map shows up and actually seeing the spawn screen).

Background: I feel like I have a decent PC and I have no clue why this is happening. I've tried deleting temp files, clearing the cache, re-installing on SSD, updating graphics drivers, etc. and nothing seems to fix it or even help slightly. Friends who also have the game do not have the same issues even with slightly "worse" PCs. I would appreciate any help/input with this issue. It is a huge pain to wait so long when I have limited time to play and joining games a third to halfway through just because of the long load times.

I don't know much at all about computers but here are some things about my set-up that I figure might help in terms of giving advice:
CPU: Intel Core i7-9700K

SSD: SAMSUNG MZVLB512HAJQ-000L7

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070

technical issues

12 Replies

  • Rokebo73's avatar
    Rokebo73
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    @BolivianMobstah  did ya check your drive for any issues ?
    Click Start , click RUN, enter this command:

    CMD

    Press Windows key + 'R' ,typ CMD
    Press and hold down CTRL + SHIFT and press ENTER.
    When User Account Control shows up, click Yes.

    now typ this line:

    chkdsk c: /f

    press enter


    a message will popup that it can not check while windows is running, press Y for yes to do a drive check as soon ya reboot pc !
    Reboot system !
    Do not interupt this scan.

    Also do this windows health check:
    SFC - Windows Health Check

    Press Windows key + 'R' ,typ CMD
    Press and hold down CTRL + SHIFT and press ENTER.
    When User Account Control shows up, click Yes.
    Use the following command lines, pressing Enter after each
    (make sure you wait till each of the commands is executed properly):

    sfc /scannow
    DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
    DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
    DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
    Reboot your system

    Test game and update us please !

  • BolivianMobstah's avatar
    BolivianMobstah
    3 years ago

    Tried both things you suggested. As far as I could tell, nothing wrong was found by the scans and the issue still remains. I also just tried starting Steam as an administrator (because I saw another forum post where this helped someone) and that didn't work either.

  • Rokebo73's avatar
    Rokebo73
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @BolivianMobstah click START , click RUN, typ in DXDIAG, press enter
    Accept with YES, in the llower part , middle, you can select SAVE.
    Save it to desktop and post it here !
  • BolivianMobstah's avatar
    BolivianMobstah
    3 years ago

    Got it! It asked if I wanted to bypass Direct3D and DirectShow (or something along those lines) because they had an issue last time I accessed it (don't know about this) and I said yes.

  • BolivianMobstah's avatar
    BolivianMobstah
    3 years ago

    @Rokebo73Did the clean install and problem still exists. I use a desktop. It is a Lenovo T730 I bought in early 2020.

    EDIT: Maybe I should have mentioned this before but it's literally only bf2042 that is having trouble. All the other games I play are fine like Apex Legends, R6 Siege, COD Modern Warfare II for example.

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