Loading screen

[jyny]

Hi guys,

Anyone else's loading screen painfully slow? Takes me a good minute to get from the loading screen to the start screen. The game plays perfectly fine but for some reason it's just the loading page that is slow.

[Brother Ben]

Make sure you have skin cache turned on in preferences

[jyny]

14 minutes ago, Brother Ben said:

Make sure you have skin cache turned on in preferences

Thanks for the reply.

Is this what you mean? I always have it ticked and just refresh it when I update the kits/graphics. I've tried with it unticked and the loading screen is just as slow. 

[Brother Ben]

Try unticking the middle one.

If not i'm not sure.

 

[jyny]

8 hours ago, Brother Ben said:

Try unticking the middle one.

If not i'm not sure.

 

I tried that but still no luck. Never mind, just gives me time to make a brew before I start playing

Thanks for trying to help though.

[alian62]

14 hours ago, jyny said:

Hi guys,

Anyone else's loading screen painfully slow? Takes me a good minute to get from the loading screen to the start screen. The game plays perfectly fine but for some reason it's just the loading page that is slow.

You can try removing the movie file to see if it helps . 

Back it up first though 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Football Manager 2024\data\game\movies\splash_fm

Remove the folder or just its contents etc

Reload game and it will go blank but only for a few seconds abd takes you straight to start page

If it takes as long as it did before then put those folders back as they were .

You can also check this as a first option 

C:\Users\YOUR NAME\AppData\Local\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2024

Delete Cache folder 

Reboot game 

Edited December 22, 2023 by alian62

[jyny]

4 hours ago, alian62 said:

You can try removing the movie file to see if it helps . 

Back it up first though 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Football Manager 2024\data\game\movies\splash_fm

Remove the folder or just its contents etc

Reload game and it will go blank but only for a few seconds abd takes you straight to start page

If it takes as long as it did before then put those folders back as they were .

You can also check this as a first option 

C:\Users\YOUR NAME\AppData\Local\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2024

Delete Cache folder 

Reboot game 

Hi, I tried both but no luck. Deleting the cache made no difference and removing the files from the movie folder just caused the game to crash.

Thanks for trying though. It's weird its only FM that is like this.

[snowofman]

54 minutes ago, jyny said:

Hi, I tried both but no luck. Deleting the cache made no difference and removing the files from the movie folder just caused the game to crash.

Thanks for trying though. It's weird its only FM that is like this.

Are you by any chance using a newgen face pack or similar ?

the more graphics you add to the game, badges, logo, faces etc the slower the startup will be

 

[jyny]

3 hours ago, snowofman said:

Are you by any chance using a newgen face pack or similar ?

the more graphics you add to the game, badges, logo, faces etc the slower the startup will be

 

I'm not using a newgen face pack but am using faces, logos, backgrounds, etc. I just checked the graphics folder size and its over 50GB so that must be the reason for the long loading screen. I never thought of that. 

Thanks for letting me know.

[snowofman]

2 minutes ago, jyny said:

I'm not using a newgen face pack but am using faces, logos, backgrounds, etc. I just checked the graphics folder size and its over 50GB so that must be the reason for the long loading screen. I never thought of that. 

Thanks for letting me know.

you're welcome  it's one of those "small" things we stop thinking about after a while