CSGO severely slow loading times

zyvex

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Dec 24, 2017
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You've probably heard this a thousand times before. I've noticed that csgo has been loading pretty slowly and when I load into a comp I normally have around a minute of warm up left.
I don't exactly have a bad PC but I still have things i need to buy for it.
Specs:
I5-7400,
GTX 1060 3gb (no overclock),
4GB Ballistic 2400Mhz ram (upgrading to 2x8gb 2666Mhz soon),
MSI B250m mobo,
Corsair VS550W
2 250gb 7200rpm HDD's (forgot what brands, but I'm also going to upgrade to a 240gb ssd and a 1tb hdd when I can).

I havent ran any benchmarks to test the drive's, but I doubt that my CPU+GPU should be at fault here. I play at 1080p, I turn down all the settings to low and cap the fps to 59 before I join a comp match. When loading a map I've noticed that my CS:GO freezes up and "stops responding" which causes the CPU and GPU usage to drop but I've yet to find a thread that covers that problem. I have a pesky suspicion that it may be due to my ram but I don't push the full amount available when playing (monitored using rivatuner statistics).

I also wondered if it was also dependant on my internet as our internet is pretty shit due to not being able to upgrade to fibre since only 1 ISP even reaches our area with it, but i tried an offline match with bots and it still took a long time to load in.

If anyone has any suggestions or ideas about what i may have done wrong or what I can do to fix this then please don't hesitate to say!
 
Solution
Might be your HDD, try disabling prefetch and superfetch from services.msc and enable forcepreload 1 from launch options from steam, also play 2-3 causal matches with different maps before entering comp also turn off your Vsync and see if there are any external programs capping your FPS one such is Xbox DVR. I have also had same problem, with my 1st account in the same PC the load time are good but when i switch to my second account my load times increases and i connect 20 seconds left in warmup. Also try disabling multicore rendring and -Nod3d9ex in launch options...
Update: there is a work around for this problem, simply alt tab out of game and get back into the game during "initialling world" screen.

Seyed22Shaheen

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Might be your HDD, try disabling prefetch and superfetch from services.msc and enable forcepreload 1 from launch options from steam, also play 2-3 causal matches with different maps before entering comp also turn off your Vsync and see if there are any external programs capping your FPS one such is Xbox DVR. I have also had same problem, with my 1st account in the same PC the load time are good but when i switch to my second account my load times increases and i connect 20 seconds left in warmup. Also try disabling multicore rendring and -Nod3d9ex in launch options...
Update: there is a work around for this problem, simply alt tab out of game and get back into the game during "initialling world" screen.
 
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