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[lh032]

Funny , I almost forgot about this .

But I'm happy enough on the loading times , it's crazy fast for most games that I played now.

But yea I think priorities should be optimization first

 

[thatJohann]

I mean, loading times haven't been eliminated as promised but aside from like two games I've played on PS5 which had unusually long loading times (life is strange true colors at launch, woo boy!), most games on PS5 have minimal loading nowadays like 2-8 seconds or so which I can live with.

RE4 Remake has amazingly fast loading times. Love seeing that tiny loading bar zip thru in 2 seconds.

 

[Mr Hyde]

I don't think you game on current gen consoles if you can't see how fast loading has become

 

[winjer]

Is that list reliable? Were these entries added by Steam users or the publishers/devs themselves?

It's read from the list of SDKs that each game uses.
So it's reliable.

 

[TintoConCasera]

I dunno man, been playing on an SSD for a few years and this shit is amazing.

Gotta say tho, it almost sucks for some older games. For example I'm playing Mass Effect 2, which has some very cool loading screens but man, I can barely see them for a second before they go away.

But yeah it's great, specially for consoles. I remember playing Bloodborne on day -2 and that thing took ages to load. They didn't even had item descriptions for the load screen, just the game logo, which made it even worse.

 

[user friendly]

Trying to read the load screens in skyrim on PS5 is near impossible.

 

[Holammer]

What if I told you R&C is full of loading screens?
Every time you're not in control of the action is the game hiding data streaming. R&C "instant loading" is 100% smart game design.

 

[Forsete]

The games with really impressive loading:

Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart
Spiderman MM
Spiderman 2

Insomniac is onto something. The fast travel in SM2 takes maybe 2 seconds?

 

[Pasta la Vista]

It's still better than last gen overall, only issue I had lately is Path of Exile 2 load times can get to like 30 seconds, but that game is in beta so it will likely get better.

 

[solidus12]

From the games I played here are the ones with nearly instant loading :

Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart
Returnal
Demon's Souls
Spider-Man Miles Morales
Spider-Man 2
Final Fantasy XVI
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Astro Bot
Sackboy
Resident Evil Village

Worst loading experience so far has been Black Myth Wukong.

 

[bitbydeath]

 

[bundylove]

Yeah, there is one game that delivers and it is R&C rift apart, but "apart" from it (pun not intended) what other game has "no loading times"? I don't know about any other title.

Returnal big times

 

[bundylove]

Also tomb raider, soul reaver ,

 

[existensmaximum]

Multiplats happened and exclusive games isn't a thing anymore.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

The answer is simple. The Xbox Series console and PC with DirectSorage and the "Velocity Architecture" are not equivalent not nearly as performant as PS5 dedicated hardware decompression and advanced I/O.

So with only one major platform on the market sporting the hardware to actually achieve the goal of near zero loading times, there is almost no impetus for developers to optimize for it; as in many cases it represents a huge change to how their game engine handle data streaming.

The games that do boast near zero loads are all PS5 exclusives. Which only buttresses this fact.

That said, the speed-up provided by the SSD alone is enough that for most multi-platform games, the load times are a virtual non-issue (they kinda were already on PS4 due to devs using clever tricks to hide loading).

 

[CamHostage]

Switch 2 gonna have Micro SD Express, which should help with any load times on that platform at least.

Not confirmed yet, but I really hope so. High bandwidth/access is quietly one of the features I'm most excited for with the second Switch. Mega-fast loading and rich assets on a portable will be amazing.)

(Unfortunately though, the actual Micro SD Express format has not turned out as good as promised initially; the card pins supposedly aren't as conducive to speed as theoretically evaluated, and the format has failed to achieve anywhere near the critical mass needed to bring down price or increase inclusion in its half-decade of existence. A 1/4TB SD Express card still costs $80, and reviews aren't great. Still, Switch has options for much fast storage, onboard storage at least, and a Switch 2 with UFS memory and high-speed cartridges, maybe an even something like the XBS expansion but smaller, that'd be a killer game machine.)

 

[ResilientBanana]

Yeah, there is one game that delivers and it is R&C rift apart, but "apart" from it (pun not intended) what other game has "no loading times"? I don't know about any other title.

Going through dimensions was the loading screen. So they lied.

 

[CoreyFlawless]

Yeah, there is one game that delivers and it is R&C rift apart, but "apart" from it (pun not intended) what other game has "no loading times"? I don't know about any other title.

I mean, it really still loading

 

[Melfice7]

alot of games are still cross gen, some are mobile games, most have pc versions too who in most cases have to run on regular hdd's

games that were optimized just for a specific hardware that has a fast sdd in mind have virtually no loadings, games like forbidden west, returnal, astrobot, ratched for example