Loading times when playing with Steam Workshop mods enabled on external SSD.

crabolution · April 21

Hello, I've looked far and wide for a fix for this issue but I've not been able to find any topics related to it.

I have Warhammer 3 installed on an external SSD. The game runs completely fine when I do not have mods enabled, loading times are relatively quick. The issue arises when I start enabling multiple mods from the Steam Workshop. The file size of the mod does not seem to matter, but if I have more than 5 mods enabled then the game's loading times will begin to get extremely sluggish, especially when loading a custom battle.

This error did not occur on an internal SSD, however I do not have enough space on it to store the game there. I've tested this on two different external SSDs and they both have issues when trying to load a battle. Could it possibly be a bug or am I out of luck here?

Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

WetEugene · April 26

Do you also have an issue where opening up in-game menus is laggy as hell? For me battles play well but on the campaign map (with workshop mods enabled on external ssd), just selecting a menu like technology or a skill tree for example, will cause the game to seize up for like 30 seconds.

The game runs fine though without; if I disable mods from the workshop it's back to normal. And before 1.1 I had plenty of mods from discord and that wasn't a problem. Really don't get it.

EDIT: Hang on, in WH2 didn't the workshop directly download files to data? I can't see anything there so does that mean it's a read-issue? Seems daft but I'm stumped. Like the game's reading from external drive and trying to do the same with workshop files = too much at once?

crabolution · April 30

WetEugene said:
Do you also have an issue where opening up in-game menus is laggy as hell? For me battles play well but on the campaign map (with workshop mods enabled on external ssd), just selecting a menu like technology or a skill tree for example, will cause the game to seize up for like 30 seconds.

The game runs fine though without; if I disable mods from the workshop it's back to normal. And before 1.1 I had plenty of mods from discord and that wasn't a problem. Really don't get it.

EDIT: Hang on, in WH2 didn't the workshop directly download files to data? I can't see anything there so does that mean it's a read-issue? Seems daft but I'm stumped. Like the game's reading from external drive and trying to do the same with workshop files = too much at once?

I only get freezes when selecting the make-a-plague Nurgle menu, and even then it's like a 5 second freeze at most, accessing technologies and skill trees doesn't cause any issues. Then again, the campaign map kind of runs like a **** right now so it might just be related to that instead of the SSD.

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