02-16-2017, 03:35 PM
A way to get Banished to load much faster? I can get Banished (with <abbr title="Colonial Charter">CC</abbr>/<abbr title="MegaMod">MM</abbr>) to launch in 8 minutes 30 seconds, or in just 50 seconds on my PC.
Slow way: Click to start Banished and don't do anything more. Just wait for the screen to go black while the game loads. Eventually the Shining Rock logo appears followed by the start screen with the music. Elapsed time is about 8:30 (510 seconds).
Speedy way: Click to start Banished. Alt-Tab back to the desktop (Banished minimized to toolbar). Wait to hear the game's startup music. Alt-Tab back to the game. Elapsed time 0:50 seconds. A 90% faster load time.
This is very repeatable. Exit the game completely and restart over and over with the same results. Anyone else get similar results? Or offer an explanation as to why results the results are so vastly different. I'm running via Steam on an average 64-bit Windows 10 desktop. I assume your times will differ but I'm curious if the overall effect is the same. I did find that from a cold start (from computer off) the slow way takes about the same time and the speedy way extended to 2:30. But still, that's a a 70% gain.
I guess this is what comes of trying to figure out why Gatherers stopped collecting wild oats, flax and rose hips with <abbr title="MegaMod">MM</abbr> 0.07 and Banished 1.0.7 beta. [img]<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/wink.png[/img]/emoticons/wink@2x.png 2x" title=";)" width="20" />
