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.
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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