Far Cry New Dawn

Far Cry New Dawn

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Extremely slow loading times (minutes) despite fast NVME SN850X drive
Both Far Cry New Dawn and Far Cry 5 have extremely slow loading times (minutes) despite fast NVME SN850X drive. Each time you die, you have to wait 2 or more minutes. Same painful process if you do a "fast" travel, which takes much longer than driving or even walking.

Disabling hyperthreading and/or running as admin do not change the situation.

My specs are:
13700K, 32GB, SN850 NVME, 32GB RAM
My PC is very fast on loading anything else.
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Ubi-Vinci  [developer] Sep 16 @ 5:06am 
Hey fabrizio_caruso

Apologies for the late reply and I'm sorry to hear it.

Your CPU consists of P and E cores that can make these games not run correctly.
Try use performance (P) cores only with these titles.

An important step is to make sure to disable all additional and unnecessary applications working in the background, especially all overlays, communicators, system tools and monitoring software - Disabling background applications on PC[www.ubisoft.com]

Check paging file settings
Go to: System > Advanced system settings > Performance > Virtual Memory
Ensure it’s not disabled entirely. Even with 32GB RAM, some titles expect a pagefile configured. Leave it to the system to manage.

I hope it will speed up the loading times on your PC.
Thanks @Ubi-Vinci for your reply!
The game runs very smoothly with up to more than 180 fps (depending on the scene).
It only suffers from very slow loading.

As I wrote I have already tried running the game as admin and disabling hyperthreading. I did this with Process Lasso, which also disables E-cores and only leaves the P-core main threads. This made absolutely no visible difference.

What are normal loading times I should expect with my setup ?
It takes about 5 minutes to get to the actual game play from the first click.
Dying or the so called fast travel take a bit more than 2 minutes.

In order to improve the situation I have disable some useless (for me) Windows services such as "fax" and xbox-related services. No visible change either.
Feloyig Sep 18 @ 2:54pm 
This issue might be technically similar to the long loading time affecting Ghost Recon Wildlands. The fix there is:

• Intel 13th/14th gen (e.g. i9-13900K, i9-14900KS)
→ Fix: Disable Hyper-Threading in BIOS
• Intel Core Ultra (e.g. Ultra 9 185H, 285K)
→ Fix: Disable E-Cores in BIOS

I can confirm that for my system disabling hyperthreading in BIOS worked to fix the long loading times in Far Cry 5 and New Dawn.
Thanks for your reply!
I can also confirm that I get the same result as you.
This is not a "solution", though. I need hyper-threading for other tasks that benefit from it. So I hope a per-game software solution can be found.

Originally posted by Feloyig:
This issue might be technically similar to the long loading time affecting Ghost Recon Wildlands. The fix there is:

• Intel 13th/14th gen (e.g. i9-13900K, i9-14900KS)
→ Fix: Disable Hyper-Threading in BIOS
• Intel Core Ultra (e.g. Ultra 9 185H, 285K)
→ Fix: Disable E-Cores in BIOS

I can confirm that for my system disabling hyperthreading in BIOS worked to fix the long loading times in Far Cry 5 and New Dawn.
Ubi-Vinci  [developer] Oct 14 @ 9:38am 
Great to hear it guys and thanks for confirming it for others.
Please check if there are newer versions of BIOS firmware for your motherboards and keep them up to date.
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