FIX: Games loading slow on PC [Windows 10]

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As a gamer, you’ve probably had those moments when you’re all set and ready to play this really cool trending game that’s all the rage with your ilk, then it happens – slow game loads.

You’re so eager to get started, but even logging in is on snail speed mode. Two minutes seem longer than an hour, and you’re still waiting for it to start.

You’ve tried everything you can think of to go around it but nothing fixes the chop! We did the homework for you and here are some fix-it solutions that can help you hasten load up time for your next attempt.

How do I fix slow game loading times?

Important checks before resolving slow game loads on Windows 10

Before you begin, here are some checks you need to consider:

• Recent program installations. Programs downloaded from the internet and installed to your computer, come with third party applications that may slow down your computer.
• Whether the issue is only when playing online games or offline as well
• The make and model of your computer
• Any updates on your graphics card driver
• Whether other games work as they should on Windows 10

Once you have these in mind, you can proceed to the solutions.

1. Update Graphics Card Drivers

1. Right-click Start
2. Select Device Manager
3. Click Display adapters to expand it
4. Right-click on the graphics card driver and choose Update driver software

If you don’t have any driver updates available, right-click on the graphics card driver and click Uninstall, then restart your computer.

Update drivers automatically (third-party tool suggested)

The safer and easier way to update drivers on a Windows computer is by using an automatic tool such as DriverFix.

It will keep your system away from malfunctions caused by the installation of the wrong drivers.

The program is incredibly lightweight and doesn’t take up too much disk space or RAM when running, and this is mostly because it acts as a downloader, since the driver libraries that it uses are all online.

Launching DriverFix will trigger a full system scan every time, and it will detect any old, broken, or missing drivers, regardless of the device manufacturer.

It will then download the drivers, install them, and you only need to restart your PC to be done.

DriverFix

2. Run maintenance task

1. Right-click on the Start button
2. Select Control Panel
3. Click on System and Security
4. Under Security and Maintenance, click Troubleshoot common computer problems
5. Locate System and Security
6. Click on Run maintenance tasks

Running maintenance task checks on the problems within your computer that may affect or slow down its performance.

Such issues include the number of users logged on to the computer, or whether there are any multiple programs running concurrently.

A pop up will appear. Follow the instructions to run maintenance tasks.

Note: sometimes you will get a prompt to run as administrator so you can do so to complete the process.

3. Uninstall third-party software

Run a System Scan to discover potential errors

If the issue wasn’t found while under Safe Mode, you can uninstall third-party software on your computers such as computer cleaner or antivirus.

However, in order to be sure 100% that the job is done, you need to make sure that all files are deleted as well.

Normally, a typical uninstall will leave leftover data on your PC, but that’s not the case if you use an uninstaller.

The best one on the market today is IObitUninstaller 10 PRO, and it will not only remove all software, extensions, Store Apps, and bloatware, it will get rid of the leftover data as well.

IObit Uninstaller 10 PRO

4. Disk defragmentation

If the first solution didn’t work to resolve slow game loads on Windows 10, try defragmenting your hard disk by doing the following:

1. Right-click the Start button
2. Select Search
3. In the search box type Disk Defragmenter
4. Click Disk Defragmenter from the search results
5. Under Current Status, choose the disk you want to defragment
6. Click Analyze disk to determine if it needs defragmentation. Type your administrator password or give permissions when prompted to.
7. Go to Last Run column to check the defragmentation percentage. If more than 10 percent, defragment the disk
8. Click Defragment disk. Type your administrator password or give permissions when prompted to.

5. Perform a Clean Boot

1. Type System Configuration in the search box > hit Enter
2. On the Services tab > select the Hide all Microsoft services check box > click Disable all .
3. On the Startup tab > click on Open Task Manager .
4. On the Startup tab in Task Manager > select all items > click Disable .
5. Close the Task Manager.

Performing a clean boot for your computer reduces conflicts related to software that can bring up the root causes of the slow game loads issue. These conflicts can be caused by applications and services that start up and run in the background whenever you start Windows normally.

On the Startup tab of the System Configuration dialog box >click OK > restart your computer.

You will have a clean boot environment after all these steps are carefully followed, after which you can try loading your game again.

6. Use Safe Mode

There are two versions:

• Safe mode
• Safe mode with Networking

The two are similar, though the latter includes network drivers and other services necessary to access the web and other computers in the same network.

Follow these steps to start your computer in Safe Mode:

1. Click on Start button
2. Select Settings – the Settings box will open up
3. Click Update & Security
4. Select Recovery from the left pane
5. Go to Advanced startup
6. Click Restart now
7. Select Troubleshoot from the choose an option screen, then click Advanced options
8. Go to Startup Settings and click Restart
9. Once your computer restarts, a list of options will come up.
10. Choose 4 or F4 to start your computer in Safe Mode

A quicker way to get into Safe Mode is to restart your computer then do the following:

1. From the Choose an option screen, select Troubleshoot>Advanced options>Startup Settings>Restart
2. Once your computer restarts, a list of options will come up.
3. Choose 4 or F4 to start your computer in Safe Mode

If the problem isn’t there while in Safe mode, then your default settings and basic drivers are not contributing to the issue.

Do the following to exit Safe Mode:

1. Right click Start button
2. Select Run
3. Type msconfig
4. A pop up will open
5. Go to the Boot tab
6. Deselect or uncheck Safe Boot option box
7. Restart your computer

7. Install drivers in compatibility mode

This solution can be executed while online. Go to your computer’s manufacturer website and install the drivers in compatibility mode for previous Windows versions.

Follow these steps to execute this:

1. Install the drivers
2. Right-click the installation file
3. Choose Properties
4. Click Compatibility tab
5. Select the Run this program in compatibility mode for: box
6. From the drop down box, choose a previous Windows OS
7. Click Ok
8. Install the driver

Did these solutions work to resolve the slow game loads issue on your computer? Let us know in the comments section.

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It has been discovered that Windows Defender can greatly increase the amount of time it takes for the game to load.

To resolve this, you can set an exception in Windows Defender for Star Control Origins by following the steps below:

Right click the Star Control: Origins game in your staem library, then click «Properties». On the next screen, select the «Local Files» tab, then select «Browse Local Content. »
This will take you to the folder where STar Control: Origins is installed. Left click the address bar and copy the complete path by pressing ctrl+c or right clicking and selecting «Copy».

Open the Start Menu in the bottom left corner of your screen and type in «Defender». The «Windows Defender Settings» option should appear at the top, left click this.

This will open the Windows Security centre, left click «Virus & threat protection», then select «Virus & threat protection settings»
Scroll down to «Exclusions» and select «Add or remove exclusions».

Click «Add an exclusion», then select «Folder», then paste in the path you copied earlier by either pressing Ctrl+P or right click and Paste, then click «Select Folder».
Congratulations, Star Control: Origins should now load much faster.

How to Optimize Windows 10 for Gaming

Today, Windows 10 is the gamers’ favorite when it comes to operating systems. Microsoft has done a great job of optimizing the OS and adapting it to the needs of the gaming community. Windows 10 offers better game performance and faster frame rates. It serves as a base for the best graphic drivers on the market, which is crucial when it comes to gaming. It supports native games, as well as retro ones, and it supports Xbox streaming with the Game DVR feature. It even has a Game Mode: a special optimization of settings to speed up your PC.

But it’s not quite that simple. To benefit from all Windows 10’s possibilities, boost your gaming experience and make your games run faster, you need to know how to optimize your PC for gaming.

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How to Improve Gaming Performance in 10 Easy Steps

Here’s our quick guide to setting up your PC for gaming: you’ll learn which tweaks and updates to make and which settings to disable to make your Windows 10 faster for gaming.

Use Windows 10 Game Mode

Here’s a quick and easy way to optimize Windows 10 for gaming using a tool that’s built into the system. Game Mode appeared in the most recent releases of the OS and is designed to improve the gaming experience by dedicating more system resources to games. It also prevents other programs, such as Windows Update, from hogging system resources while you’re playing.

To locate the Game Mode settings, press Windows key + I, type “game mode” in the search box and click Control Game Mode for optimizing your PC for games.

In the menu that opens, click Game Mode. Switch to On to turn Game Mode on. If your PC supports Game Mode, the system will optimize your PC gaming performance.

If you can’t find these settings, it means the latest Windows Creators Update is not installed on your PC.

Go for an SSD

Upgrading from an HDD to an SSD won’t drastically improve your game performance, but it can help you reduce loading times significantly. It is true that SDDs can be quite expensive and it may seem that loading times is not such an important issue to invest your money in. But while it is probably not the first thing to think about when speeding up your laptop, it is not the last either. Today’s games take more and more disk space, so if you want to play the latest ones, changing from an HDD to an SSD can be a real time-saver and your game loading times can go down from 30-40 seconds to 2-3, which is pretty significant.

As for the money side of things, if a big SSD for both your OS and games is too expensive for you, just get one small SSD for your OS, and keep a big HDD for games.

Manage Your Active Hours

Yes, Windows 10 can install updates and reboot your computer in the middle of your gaming session without so much as an “excuse me”. Ouch. That can be disappointing, to say the least, especially if you’re a competitive gamer and your unplanned exit may affect your teammates or ranking.

But even without such “in-your-face” restarts, which are actually quite rare, the downloading of updates on the background limits your connection speeds and takes up working memory on your PC.

While your first reaction might be to completely turn off automatic updates, we would advise against it. Windows’ aggressive updating without asking permission is the way it is because in earlier versions users wouldn’t update of their own volition and so their systems were regularly exposed to cyber threats. Remember that Windows auto-updates are there not only to ruin your raid, but also to protect your system, keep it up-to-date and working optimally.

So, another “softer” and far more intelligent solution is to set your active hours appropriately. You can specify your gaming and working schedule in Windows and prevent the OS from downloading updates during those times. Windows will then use your non-active hours to update and restart your system.

To set your active hours, hit Windows key + I, then go to Update & Security and click Change active hours. There you can set up to 18 active hours, leaving a gap of 6 (you have to sleep sometimes, don’t you?) for Windows to install your updates.

If you’re a night gamer or your sleeping hours vary dramatically so that you can’t set a specific non-active time, we would advise you (aside from changing your sleeping habits) to make sure Windows reminds you every time it will want to restart so that, if it happens during your gaming, you can always delay it.

To do this, go back to Windows Update, click Advanced options and make sure the switch under “We’ll show a reminder when we’re going to restart” is turned on.

Disable Mouse Acceleration

This one has nothing to do with improving your PC’s performance in gaming, but is rather a tip for you to enhance your personal gaming performance. Mouse acceleration is a setting that makes your mouse move based not only on detection of physical movements but also on speed. This option actually makes your mouse movements less accurate, as it adds an extra parameter to the movement that you convey to the mouse. Given how crucial precision is for accurate aiming in first-person shooters, if you’re a fan of Call of Duty, Counter-Strike, or Overwatch type of games, you should definitely turn this off.

To do this, hit Windows key + I. Type “mouse pointer” in the search box. Choose Change the mouse pointer display or speed. In the window that opens, go to the Pointer Options tab and uncheck Enhance pointer precision.

Also, you may want to tweak the pointer speed slider to create a configuration that suits you best.

Tweak Your Visual Effects Settings

There are plenty of fancy visual effects in Windows 10 graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Nevertheless, those pretty background graphics, most of which are turned on by default, can affect the available processing power of your PC when a game is running in the foreground. So, one way to optimize Windows 10 for gaming performance is to sacrifice some, or even all, of those settings.

Once again, hit Windows key + I. Then, type “performance” and select Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows. In the window that opens, choose Adjust for best performance. Then, go to the Advanced tab and verify that the setting is applied to Programs.

If you want to keep at least the minimum of graphics so that your interface doesn’t look so bleak, we recommend you keep at least these three options from the list checked:

• Show thumbnails instead of icons.
• Show window contents while dragging.
• Smooth edges of screen fonts.

Disable Nagle’s Algorithm

Basically, Nagle’s algorithm improves the efficiency of TCP/IP networks by creating bundles of data packets, thus reducing the number of packets that need to be sent over the network. That process affects your internet connection, making it less stable. Having this algorithm disabled on your PC may contribute to latency issues when playing games online.

Open your Windows Registry Editor by clicking Windows key + Q, typing “regedit” and clicking on the regedit file. Scroll down the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE menu to find the following path: \SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interface. That’ll lead you to the menu that comprises folders with many numbers and letters. To access the correct file, match your IP address to the listed DhcpIPAddress in one of those folders.

To find your IP address, press Windows key + X and follow these steps: Control Panel — Network and Internet — Network and Sharing Center — Connections — Details — IPv4 Address.

Now you can track down the folder with the proper IP Address. Right-click on that folder and select New — DWORD (32-bit) Value. You’ll have to create two of those values: TcpAckFrequency and TCPNoDelay. Double-click on each of them and set both of their parameters to 1. The Nagle’s Algorithm is now disabled.

Manage Steam Auto-Updates

The problem here is the same as with Windows Updates. Steam auto-updates all your games, even those you haven’t played for ages. Updating in the background eats up your PC’s memory and can slow down gaming processes.

To prevent Steam from updating games while you’re playing, go to your Steam client and find update options in Steam — Settings — Downloads. Uncheck Allow downloads during gameplay.

Also, games on Steam are being updated all the time, and it often happens that new bugs appear in new updates, or some things just stop working, so you may want to wait to hear what others are experiencing before updating a game yourself.

To roll a game version back to the one you need, open Steam, right-click on the game, choose Properties, and go to the Betas tab. Choose the desired version from the drop-down menu.

Use a High-Performance Power Plan

This might be a good solution if you’re using a desktop PC rather than a laptop, because power plans were designed to better manage battery use on portable devices. Having no such limitations on a desktop PC, it is worthwhile opting for a high-performance power plan that keeps the CPU frequency high and makes your PC perform better while consuming more energy and increasing the temperature level.

To change your power plan, click Windows key + I, type “power” in the search box, choose Power & sleep settings and then Additional power settings. If you don’t see a high-performance power plan on the left side of the screen, click Create a power plan and choose High performance.

Keep Your GPU Drivers Updated

The GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is crucial to your gaming experience and to your PC performance in games, but you need to keep your GPU drivers up to date to feel the benefit. What’s more, an outdated driver may result in bugs, glitches and system crashes, so we recommend you take this issue seriously and take care of your drivers.

Although Windows 10 doesn’t update your GPU drivers automatically, manufacturers often create special software in the form of GPU control panels that make regular checks for updates and notify you if a new update is available. Don’t ignore these notifications, as the updating process takes little time and can save you plenty of trouble during gaming.

For example, depending on your GPU’s manufacturer, you can download either Radeon Software Adrenaline or GeForce Experience. Both programs check for auto-updates and suggest powerful optimization options. Additionally, GeForce Experience includes game capture and streaming software and provides special Game Ready drivers, designed by NVIDIA in collaboration with top game developing companies.

You can update your driver directly from the Windows properties, but the safest way to get the latest driver is to go directly to the manufacturer’s website, choose your GPU model, and check for updates.

If you don’t know your GPU specs, right-click on the Desktop, choose Display settings, then Advanced display settings and click Display adapter properties.

Here are some links to the most popular manufacturers’ driver updates:

Install DirectX 12

DirectX 12 is a real must-have for anyone serious about playing games on Windows 10. Put simply, DirectX is the application the game uses to communicate with your computer and tell it what to do. DirectX 12 is a great improvement over its predecessor, DirectX 11, introducing the ability of graphics cards to draw resources from more than one core of a PC’s CPU, increasing frame rates, enhancing graphical effects and lowering power consumption. Tests have shown an 85-300% difference in gaming performance between version 11 and version 12.

That said, to benefit from DirectX 12 features the game needs to have been developed using this version. The good news is that the list of such games gets longer every day as more and more game companies adopt this version.

To verify that you have the latest version of DirectX, hit Windows key + R, type “dxdiag” and click OK. The DirectX Diagnostic Tool will open.

If you don’t have DirectX 12, go ahead and install it; the process will take just a few minutes. Hit Windows key + I, choose Update & Security and click Check for updates in the Windows Update tab. Wait for the installation to finish.