Loading times are mainly affected by the hard drive speed (SSDs recommended due to this),
the CPU speed and the amount of items being loaded. For example if you have a huge amount of mods and a slow hard drive, it can take ages.

Well I am using an SSD so it's not that. and not that many I've seen people with more. how many mods would you suggest?

Originally posted by j_saalbach:

Well I am using an SSD so it's not that. and not that many I've seen people with more. how many mods would you suggest?

I would start by disabling all your mods and checking if that's the issue to start with. You need a baseline to go off of and that would take you a few seconds ideally.

Not exactly first it's always pretty quick and gradually starts to get longer on load the longer I play. I can disable them all ya but it would might take a bit of time though.

I can share with you very clearly, because this is the result of my actual test. If there is no mods conflict, an old laptop from 10 years ago still uses a STAT2.0 mechanical hard drive, it only takes 1 minute and 20 seconds from starting the game + 301 mods to the main interface.
Obviously, SSD cannot be slower than STAT2.0 hard drive. When mods conflict, the loading time will be very long, because the game is repeatedly comparing mods to find out which mod is used to cover the same function code. That's why it's time consuming. So you should troubleshoot those mods that conflict with each other.

OK Thanks I don't have anything close to 301 mods so I'll check

OK played it for a few days had no other mods on it than the one I wanted and it still eventually reached the extreme long load time I now only have the Superb survivors and another mod that didn't conflict with it but I still have an obserdly long load time. Something is causing the load time to just slow down to much. Or maybe their is a way to speed up the same game load times.

perhaps we can try testing if the ssd is operating well?
https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskmark/

try running the default test and posting a screenshot, and the superb survivors might be known for performance issues, i think, but don't quote me on that. haven't played for quite a while.

also, what is the exact processor, as older server processors with 8 cores are not exactly as good as a modern 8 core.

I upgraded the core to 8 a month ago with a modern one.
I'll look on this verson of the crystal disk test but I already ran a crystal disk test earlier this week.

NOt sure why but for some reason it's not letting me put the screen shot into steam for the Crystal disk test. but it does say it passes.

Originally posted by j_saalbach:

NOt sure why but for some reason it's not letting me put the screen shot into steam for the Crystal disk test. but it does say it passes.

you can upload it somewhere like imgur and post the link

Or, there is other way that to use Ramdisk.

If you have 32GB DRAM or more, to create a 'Memory Hard Disk' and copy the whole game into, then relocate the game path from Steam to this 'Memory Hard Disk', then run the game.
This game total size is 7.8GB, and plus some necessary big mods, you need to create a 'Memory Hard Disk' more than 20GB. And sure, if you're only using a handful of small mods, creating a 10GB 'Memory Disk' should be more than enough.

BOOM! The whole game directly running from your computer DRAM.
And sure, if you also use mods, you also need put mods into 'Memory Hard Disk'. Otherwise, you will not be able to get the blessing of 'memory speed' because the mods are still read from the hard disk.

I"m only using...2 mods best as I can tell aside from a randomized spawn one. my HD space is about 4 TB.
I'll have to look into the memory disk one but not sure how viable that is for me in some cases need to look how to make it

Also I can copy and paste the data here
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
CrystalDiskInfo 8.17.14 (C) 2008-2022 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World: https://crystalmark.info/
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 19045] (x64)
Date : 2023/05/04 19:39:28

-- Controller Map ----------------------------------------------------------
+ Standard SATA AHCI Controller [ATA]
- TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-224BB
- SanDisk SDSSDH32000G
- ST1000DM003-1SB102
- Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller [SCSI]
+ USB Attached SCSI (UAS) Mass Storage Device [SCSI]
- ATA WDC WD10JPVX-60J SCSI Disk Device
- DAEMON Tools Lite Virtual SCSI Bus [SCSI]

-- Disk List ---------------------------------------------------------------
(01) SanDisk SDSSDH32000G : 2000.3 GB [0/0/0, pd1] - sd
(02) ST1000DM003-1SB102 : 1000.2 GB [1/0/0, pd1]
(03) WDC WD10JPVX-60JC3T1 : 1000.2 GB [2/1/0, sa1]
(04) TOSHIBA MQ04UBB400 : 4000.7 GB [3/0/0, sa1]

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
(01) SanDisk SDSSDH32000G
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Model : SanDisk SDSSDH32000G
Firmware : X61170RL
Serial Number : 19188F801658
Disk Size : 2000.3 GB (8.4/137.4/2000.3/2000.3)
Buffer Size : Unknown
Queue Depth : 32
# of Sectors : 3907029168
Rotation Rate : ---- (SSD)
Interface : Serial ATA
Major Version : ACS-4
Minor Version : ACS-4 Revision 5
Transfer Mode : SATA/600 | SATA/600
Power On Hours : 16743 hours
Power On Count : 2462 count
Host Reads : 64751 GB
Host Writes : 51382 GB
NAND Writes : 79853 GB
Temperature : 32 C (89 F)
Health Status : Good (97 %)
Features : S.M.A.R.T., APM, NCQ, TRIM, DevSleep, GPL
APM Level : 0080h [ON]
AAM Level : ----
Drive Letter : C:

Originally posted by j_saalbach:

I"m only using...2 mods best as I can tell aside from a randomized spawn one. my HD space is about 4 TB.
I'll have to look into the memory disk one but not sure how viable that is for me in some cases need to look how to make it

Also I can copy and paste the data here
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
CrystalDiskInfo 8.17.14 (C) 2008-2022 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World: https://crystalmark.info/
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 19045] (x64)
Date : 2023/05/04 19:39:28

-- Controller Map ----------------------------------------------------------
+ Standard SATA AHCI Controller [ATA]
- TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-224BB
- SanDisk SDSSDH32000G
- ST1000DM003-1SB102
- Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller [SCSI]
+ USB Attached SCSI (UAS) Mass Storage Device [SCSI]
- ATA WDC WD10JPVX-60J SCSI Disk Device
- DAEMON Tools Lite Virtual SCSI Bus [SCSI]

-- Disk List ---------------------------------------------------------------
(01) SanDisk SDSSDH32000G : 2000.3 GB [0/0/0, pd1] - sd
(02) ST1000DM003-1SB102 : 1000.2 GB [1/0/0, pd1]
(03) WDC WD10JPVX-60JC3T1 : 1000.2 GB [2/1/0, sa1]
(04) TOSHIBA MQ04UBB400 : 4000.7 GB [3/0/0, sa1]

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
(01) SanDisk SDSSDH32000G
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Model : SanDisk SDSSDH32000G
Firmware : X61170RL
Serial Number : 19188F801658
Disk Size : 2000.3 GB (8.4/137.4/2000.3/2000.3)
Buffer Size : Unknown
Queue Depth : 32
# of Sectors : 3907029168
Rotation Rate : ---- (SSD)
Interface : Serial ATA
Major Version : ACS-4
Minor Version : ACS-4 Revision 5
Transfer Mode : SATA/600 | SATA/600
Power On Hours : 16743 hours
Power On Count : 2462 count
Host Reads : 64751 GB
Host Writes : 51382 GB
NAND Writes : 79853 GB
Temperature : 32 C (89 F)
Health Status : Good (97 %)
Features : S.M.A.R.T., APM, NCQ, TRIM, DevSleep, GPL
APM Level : 0080h [ON]
AAM Level : ----
Drive Letter : C:

bro thats crystaldisk info not crystaldisk mark, crystal disk mark will tell you how fast the disk is, info just tells me things about it.

also, try and type dxdiag into the start bar search box, it might prompt something about whql, either of the option will do. this will then prompt a box about your specs, could you check what processor that is?

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CrystalDiskMark 8.0.4 x64 (C) 2007-2021 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World: https://crystalmark.info/
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

[Read]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 562.375 MB/s [] < 14879.50 us>
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 544.756 MB/s [] < 1924.06 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 391.993 MB/s [] < 334.11 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 39.553 MB/s [] < 103.47 us>

[Write]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 276.139 MB/s [] < 30125.48 us>
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 135.807 MB/s [] < 7695.31 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 178.574 MB/s [] < 732.97 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 113.669 MB/s [] < 35.90 us>

Profile: Default
Test: 16 GiB (x5) [C: 90% (1670/1862GiB)]
Mode: [Admin]
Time: Measure 5 sec / Interval 5 sec
Date: 2023/05/04 20:03:09
OS: Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 19045] (x64)