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Most of the time I notice that it takes ESO longer to load to the character select screen with no addons then it did for me to load into World of Warcraft with 8 addons about 6 years ago. I am wondering if anyone knows of anything I should look for in my computer to turn off or any other suggestions as to why it takes so long for me to get in game?
It takes me a very long time to load as well. Happened all through beta also. Addons or no addons don't seem to effect the load time for me so I just accepted it *shrug*
Its because of this file: ShaderCache.cooked It resides in your C:\Users\Username\Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live folder. I don't know why they chose to save shader info (mostly shadows from what I've read, not sure though) to a cache file. See, the game .exe is only 32 bit, which means that it can only access 4 gigs of RAM. So they try to use a "cheat", similar to what SWTOR uses, that allows the game to use more than 4g of RAM on systems that have excess. I suspect that file is part of their system, but who knows.
Bottom line is that you can do nothing about how long it takes to build/rebuild that file. Its annoying.
Latest versions of nVidia drivers also create a shader cache, but it doesn't affect the load times of my other games, at least not that I've been able to notice. You can at least toggle that one for On and Off, but I'd recommend leaving it at default setting.
Of note, folks might find this Reddit thread of interest: http://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/29px9g/simple_fps_issue_workaround_that_fixed_my_problem/
NICE reply Sekker, I was wondering the same thing as both my laptop and gaming rig had the same(ish) delay. Like Faye, I just accepted it and played Angry Birds: Epic while it loaded :P
