Horizons menu delays is something wrong with my PC or network?

[Schembri]

For a couple of weeks now the game is acting strangely. I don't see any post saying this although when i posted in support forms someone told me it's common.

basically if I press ESC to exit the game, or click on missions, or Commodities, or maps - basically anything that involves loading some data is taking ages (ok not ages but 1-2 minutes on average) and it is pretty much fraying my nerves.

The funny thing is that while there is the waiting time the menu highlighting is still responsive i.e. i can move around and often look around, except when loading maps.

So ... anyone else having these problems or better yet solved something like this?

my PC is old but it was not behaving like this weeks ago. CPU usage is typically around 20-30%, memory 4 of 8 GB used and video is Radeon HD5850.

any advice appreciated!!

 

[White Shark]

I'm having the same problem, but assumed it was just on Xbox.

Maybe part of the ongoing bugs.

 

[Spacecat]

Seems to be a 2.2 thing. Menu times are all over the place, sometimes fast, sometimes super slow.

 

[Chipoli]

Got the same issues on PC - Game menu and station menus.

Regarding the game menu (Esc): That's more than just annoying.
I had to kill the task to leave the game for several times.

 

[Mikey2305]

yes, same here. esc to menu, commodities, outfitting, shipyard. there always seems to be something. everytime i start up and it seems to settle down after a few minutes. v frustrating. are tickets being raised?

 

[Ursula_17]

I am having the same issues. I think its a networking issue. Slow internet combined with overworked servers I would say.

 

[Schembri]

Ok so I'm not alone. I have nit raised a ticket yet, just a post in the support forum. I may consider to raise a ticket, simply because it has made playing not enjoyable. Pity that the best game ever (my opinion only) is disadvantaged by this thing.

I still wonder if this is something for everyone or a select few who have a common factor eg country or service provider.
Although other websites have no issue. I don't play any other games so cannot compare network. Though if I look form task manager he network traffic from ED is very small, so maybe its the servers only way to test that is I will try to play the game at some other time than peak hours. But that will be no solution.
Thanks everyone for your input.

 

[Warshrike]

For a couple of weeks now the game is acting strangely. I don't see any post saying this although when i posted in support forms someone told me it's common.

basically if I press ESC to exit the game, or click on missions, or Commodities, or maps - basically anything that involves loading some data is taking ages (ok not ages but 1-2 minutes on average) and it is pretty much fraying my nerves.

The funny thing is that while there is the waiting time the menu highlighting is still responsive i.e. i can move around and often look around, except when loading maps.

So ... anyone else having these problems or better yet solved something like this?

my PC is old but it was not behaving like this weeks ago. CPU usage is typically around 20-30%, memory 4 of 8 GB used and video is Radeon HD5850.

any advice appreciated!!

Well if its your network and pc mate then it is mine as well. Having same issues with mission screens, escape menu all of it. My pc is a brand new build ready for my oculus.

 

[NW3]

Yes, I've seen it too. Sometimes it's only a few seconds, but other times it's 10s of seconds. Annoying. It's hard to tell if you pressed the Esc key or not. (Sometimes when I do press Esc, ED ignores it completely. I need to hold the key down, not just click it, but if I do hold it down too long, when the menu pops up, it immediately closes. (As if 2 Esc keystroke were detected.) Definitely a pain.

 

[Schembri]

Just went on game now 7:45 am (CET) it should be a quite time now - Europe just waking up and US going to sleep.
did not spent much time playing just clicked a few screens:
1) Map took about 35s
2) ESC took about 1 minute and 40s

So it's not servers either. Later on today I'll raise a ticket.

 

[Mike Reacher]

Not a network problem as the problem is worldwide on ED. Not on any other games or internet usage.

Sometimes the action (Clicking on a page change) is just not working. Have to go to outside screen and go into the actioning screens again and again.

 

[1984]

Same here since 2.2 and the FPS frame rate drop bug near planets.

 

[Jabezz]

I've got the same on Xbox1. It's the worst I've seen it.

 

[1984]

Just been doing some tests. It is far far worse for me in open. Solo is the best. Sounds like networking, instancing, servers to me. My FPS issue near landable planets is affected by the server I connect to. So not my PC if it is fine on one ED server and not on another. This really needs fixing or it's time to move on to something else.

 

[Chipoli]

Just went on game now 7:45 am (CET) it should be a quite time now - Europe just waking up and US going to sleep.
did not spent much time playing just clicked a few screens:
1) Map took about 35s
2) ESC took about 1 minute and 40s

So it's not servers either. Later on today I'll raise a ticket.

I can verify this.
Thanks for raising a ticket.

 

[rogue221]

I'm struggling to play this game since the update as well. I can't get any missions, or passenger boards. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Very frustrating.

 

[cnschulz]

Could you please post a link to the ticket? I'd like to follow it.

 

[hiredgun]

Had the issues since 2.2, slow menus in station, esc key, and jump times. I can put up with the other issues mission related, but this is infuriating. In fact i have stopped playing until it improves. I have little time to play with RL as it is..............

 

[Steyla]

I had this issue since 2.2 on my PC/Windows 7 as well. Lately I changed my graphics card from an nVidia GTX660 to GTX1070. When I now hit escape the menu pops up almost instantly, every time. Before, it would take sometimes more than a minute. The same with system/galaxy map, commodities and so on.

 

[Schembri]

I still have not logged a ticket mostly because I had to enable verbose logging and my time is limited I have some history i guess now in verbose logging as it's been on for a week.

Interesting if it has to do with graphics card. That would ring a bell - I have a very old card Radeon HD5850, drivers last update I think was in Feb 2016 if not before. If all people with delays have an old radeon that could be a pattern. It must be something with the drivers and the game as before it was quite fine. Only graphics quality was not on par with latest video cards, speed was sufficient for me.