I just picked up Dragon Age: Inquisition from Origin last night, and I'm really eager to play it and know whether it'll work, and try to get my refund if it doesn't.Last night, when I launched the game at 1 in the morning, I had a pretty good time playing from 2 to 4. Everything seemed to work great, even though transitioning from the beginning church place to the Hinterlands took like 15 minutes, at least?Today, I thought maybe it would work faster. and I could get a quick game session out of the way before I had to leave, but it took 20 minutes before I could see the main menu, and 40 minutes after that, my main save hasn't loaded.I found a lot of topics going around about painfully slow loading times, but they mention seconds and single-digit numbers of minutes, so I wonder, am I doing something wrong?The game seemed to play just fine last night, if I could find something to do to amuse myself while it's loading, so I don't think it can be the graphics, but really, I don't know.

Some people reported decreased load times when they're not logged into the DA servers.

Six minutes to load the game is still very long, but if a lightning strike did improve overall load times, then I think you should indeed be grateful for this divine intervention. (My money's on Zeus.)

Hm, could you give some information on your system and game settings? I'm pretty much running DA:I on a potato right now, but game and location loading times almost never go past 3-4 minutes... in fact, loading times usually get shorter with time.Also, take a look if there is anything weird going on with memory of procesor usage.

I'm using an aging 2009 Alienware Aurora, with a 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 processor, 9 GB RAM, an Nvidia GTX 260 video card with ... maybe 1 GB of video RAM, and two hard drives with a good amount ot space left on them.The game ran fine for me last night after I gave it lots of time to load, so I didn't change the video settings at all. (I changed the audio settings to nighttime mode and added subtitles, because I was playing at 3 in the morning, but that's probably irrelevant.)Earlier that day, I'd played The Sims 3 and Marvel Heroes 2015 with no problems at allI left Origin verifying the game's files, and I'll double check that my drivers and stuff are up to date, just to be sure.

Okay, I verified my game files in Origin, updated my video driver, and updated my operating system; then, I rebooted.I managed to get from "clicking to start the game" to "look at me, I'm the Herald of Andraste!" in five minutes, so that's a success there, even if I'm not sure how it happened!Then, lightning did something with the power lines and my computer died, and I left it unplugged for about four hours. Then, I managed to get the game to load in six minutes, and transitioned from the Hinterlands to Haven in about a minute.So ... I guess whatever's wrong is fixed now?It is hard to say. But I won't be asking for a refund, at least.Oh, and thank you for your advice, both of you who replied!

Hour-long loading times in Dragon Age: Inquisition for PC?

19 Replies

spitfiresiemion
10 years ago
Hm, could you give some information on your system and game settings? I'm pretty much running DA:I on a potato right now, but game and location loading times almost never go past 3-4 minutes... in fact, loading times usually get shorter with time.

Also, take a look if there is anything weird going on with memory of procesor usage.
Fred_vdp
Hero+
10 years ago
Some people reported decreased load times when they're not logged into the DA servers.
Every_Dave
10 years ago
I'm using an aging 2009 Alienware Aurora, with a 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 processor, 9 GB RAM, an Nvidia GTX 260 video card with ... maybe 1 GB of video RAM, and two hard drives with a good amount ot space left on them.

The game ran fine for me last night after I gave it lots of time to load, so I didn't change the video settings at all. (I changed the audio settings to nighttime mode and added subtitles, because I was playing at 3 in the morning, but that's probably irrelevant.)

Earlier that day, I'd played The Sims 3 and Marvel Heroes 2015 with no problems at all

I left Origin verifying the game's files, and I'll double check that my drivers and stuff are up to date, just to be sure.
Every_Dave
10 years ago
Okay, I verified my game files in Origin, updated my video driver, and updated my operating system; then, I rebooted.

I managed to get from "clicking to start the game" to "look at me, I'm the Herald of Andraste!" in five minutes, so that's a success there, even if I'm not sure how it happened!

Then, lightning did something with the power lines and my computer died, and I left it unplugged for about four hours. Then, I managed to get the game to load in six minutes, and transitioned from the Hinterlands to Haven in about a minute.

So ... I guess whatever's wrong is fixed now?

It is hard to say. But I won't be asking for a refund, at least.

Oh, and thank you for your advice, both of you who replied!
Fred_vdp
Hero+
10 years ago
Six minutes to load the game is still very long, but if a lightning strike did improve overall load times, then I think you should indeed be grateful for this divine intervention. (My money's on Zeus.)
xapim
7 years ago
I have a Predator helios 300 i5 7300HQ GTX 1050ti and i have extreme long loading times more than 20 minutes i just started the game and after almost 1h couldn't even played just passed the choosing character head and name and then the cutscene after the spiders chase and here i go again for another black loadning screen for who knows how much time
xapim
7 years ago
I thought having a better machine specially a gaming machine would improve something on loading times but seems not i remember when i first played dragon origins on my p4 3.2 with an hd2600pro on win xp on minimum specs it would tae ages lol but after all this years thought if i had a good machine something would improve (not talking about graphics) on loading times but seems the same cant figure out why
mcsupersport
Hero+
7 years ago
You may want to post up a DxDiag file, and maybe try a clean boot, or check your computer settings for things such as Anti-virus, firewall, origin, cloud saves and such because anything over 2-3 minutes is bad, as in really really bad, you have a problem somewhere. Even before I updated to my Ryzen 7 CPU and upped my RAM to 16 gigs, I was running a 4 core AMD chip, with 8 gigs ram and standard HDs, and my load times were about a minute in length. With my new system they are still about that, because it just takes a time to pull the data off standard HDs instead of having SSDs. Even back in the early times of DAI very few people had more than 1-2 minute load times, and so you having 20 minute loads on a decent machine is abnormal.

I can generally start the game from Origin, and be in game, with character loaded to last save in less than 5 minutes and I would bet closer to 3 minutes, but I haven't actually timed it.

Edited to add: Just started game from Origin and watched the clock at bottom of my second monitor...elapsed time from clicking play to full control of character in Skyhold was less than 2 minutes and was actually probably closer to 1 minute 15 seconds.
ThandalNLyman
7 years ago
I play on an i7-4770K with 16GB RAM, a Samsung EVO850 SSD, and an nVidia GTX 1060 GPU with 6GB VRAM.

Time from clicking "Play" to having control of my ("Resumed") IQ: 58 seconds.
xapim
7 years ago
Here is the DXDiag log just finished Wolfenstein 2 in about 10h's non stop playing perfectly fine also Destiny 2, Shadow of mordor , Shadow of war, rise of the tomb raider etc they all play really fine all on max specs no issues at all
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