Longest Load Time

[alik44]

What was the longest Time it took your Game to load

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

I think loading Shogun 2 on my old computer before I upgraded was pretty damn close to the longest. It took that thing like 5-10 minutes just to load up.
More recently though, I purchased Stalker: Call of Pripyat and am having issues with loads even on a blazing PC with a fast HD. The prefetching for a save game takes forever. There is even a massive delay between loading the menu and going back to the game.

 

[Fanta Grape]

Harry Potter 2 Chamber of Secrets Loading Screens ... ahhrggg

Also, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep if you don't install it

 

[Archangel768]

Fear 1 running on a external hard drive through a USB 1 port
It took at least 5 minutes to load a level.

A friend of mine once took 15 minutes to load each level of Max Payne 1

 

[The Lugz]

pff, you think you know slow! you haven't seen slow until you run a c64

36 minutes for boulder dash to load from cassette tape.

bam!

 

[Ruwrak]

Infinity.

Skyrim got stuck on a loadingscreen

 

[FrostyChick]

The worst offender for me would have to be Alpha Protocol.
But even that was only just 2 minutes tops.

 

[Bob_Dobb]

Look up a video of Euthanasia (video game). The loading times are shocking and I have a shit computer so it took me 15 minutes to start and it didn't work when I got into the second room.

 

[Geofuji]

I remember Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex on the ps2 taking soo long, it would spend awhile even loading the loading screen : (

 

[DanielBrown]

What was the longest Time it took your Game to load

Tell me yours and I'll tell you mine.

So tired of fail OPs.

 

[alik44]

What was the longest Time it took your Game to load

Tell me yours and I'll tell you mine.

So tired of fail OPs.

I guess thats fair

I guess the longest load time i had was Fur fighter for the ps2 literally 9-12 long minutes on the loading screen with that same looping music

 

[Puddleknock]

Medieval Total War, yeah the first one. This was when the computer I was playing in on was only just able to. By the end of a full campaign it really start to struggle loading a saved game. Used to start loading it then either take a shower or get some food as it would take a good 10 mins or so to get into it.

 

[DanielBrown]

I guess thats fair

I guess the longest load time i had was Fur fighter for the ps2 literally 9-12 long minutes on the loading screen with that same looping music

*Cheers*
Mine was in one of my first PS2 games called Rune. Would load for at least 15 minutes, and if I recall correctly there were quite a lot of loading screens in that game.
Eventually returned it to the store and got my money back since they didn't have another copy. <3

 

[Folji]

Back in early 2006 I played World of Warcraft on a crummy old laptop with 256mb RAM, of which 32 was shared VRAM. Loading the game took roughly 20 minutes and I feared even the thought of entering a city.

Good times.

 

[meryatathagres]

Gauntlet on tape on c64. Took ages.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

Unreal 2: The Awakening. The game was a graphic whore and my computer was not up to spec.

Trying to run a 2003 game on a 1999 computer required a lot of patients.

 

[HassEsser]

Huh, wow, whenever a game takes more than 2 minutes, I resort to either ending its process (PC), or resetting the console (console).

So, I guess, 2 minutes. The longest time I regularly put up with would have to be this computer I'm on. Takes about 50 seconds, that's way too long by my standards, other PC does 15.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

vice city took forever....