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[edit] Somehow, the issue resolved itself without me doing anything. I don't know how or why, but alas, it is fixed. The only issue now is some minor audio skipping during cut scenes.

Ok, so, I'm at the begging of the game (The Prelude) and I'm at the bit with the dragon. Up to this point I have been playing since 10am this morning. It's taking me over 1/3 hour to load.

Note that I mean the save, not the game. The game it self loads really fast from the get go, but as soon as I select load and any save point, I can be sitting there for over 15 mins at a time just waiting to load. Of course if I die, I have to wait ANOTHER 15 mins to load which is ridiculous and I don't want to play this game because of it. I wasn't going to say anything but after looking on google all friggon day looking for an answer, all I get all the time is "wow, wicther 2 loads faster than witcher 1".. Well, not for me. I have defragged my PC, run a virus scan, I have done everything i can think of and nothing. When I go to config and detect my settings (to make sure that there isn't an issue with my hardware) it auto detects HIGH for me, so, there isn't an issue hardware wise, I have loads of space on my HDD, It's defragged... So what the hell could it be?
Post edited May 22, 2011 by userinuse
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RAM? (auto-detect is never the best way to go)
i have been noticing that the further i get into the game and the more i play in one sitting the slower the game gets and the longer it takes to load, i think it may have a memory leak, also it has the same issue as witcher 1 it appears, if you have to many savegames it slows the game down, so what i do is i manually delete most of my old saves as well as quit and restart the game every few hours to speed it up, you really shouldn't have to do things like this tho, the game should run and load at the same speed all the way through.

Also the quote they gave of no loading screens if complete BS i have gotten to points in lobiden close to where the troll is when the game will stop for a sec and give me a loading screen, it doesn't happen often and doesn't stay very long at all, but it still is a loading screen.
I imagine if you're having loading screens that your hardware isn't quite up to snuff at whatever settings and resolutions you are playing at.

As they explained in some interview, the game uses one (or maybe two) of your cores to keep streaming zones to remove loading screens, and I can say that I never had any outside of the very quick transition ones that have an actual loading screen graphic, as opposed to all the "loading" that you only realize is happening because the symbol lights up in the right hand of the screen.

I've also played up to 8 hours at a time without any slowdown, so not sure I buy into there being a memory leak. ;p
my hardware is fine, i played the game for 2 days before i started getting slowdowns or the very rare loading screen that only last about 1 second, but there is definelty a problem somewhere, i think it may be the same bug that the witcher one was plagued with, the too many savegames slowing the game down bug.

also i can play any other game out there on high settings without issue.
Post edited May 21, 2011 by fishboy11
Well, it sorted itself out, no idea why and how but after making this thread it just sorted it self out. For those saying my hardware wasn't any good, quad core i7, dual ATI 5800, 6gb ram, my PC is quite fine but it must of been the games memory leak as I only had 2 save files because I deleted the other ones as I have had the witcher before I got EE and that was one of the issues.

The only thing I'm getting at the moment is audio skipping.
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userinuse: The only thing I'm getting at the moment is audio skipping.
We are working on fixing that issue with a patch.