Looooong loading screen

Klive,

We can look into this for sure, but we’ll probably need a bit more information. Usually long loading is going to be caused by a slow hard drive or a program fighting for control of your harddrive like security. It could also be a connection problem, but that’s not the first place I’d look.

I’d start by updating your antivirus if you’re using a third party security program, and update windows defender definitions using windows update as well. Even if it says you’re up to date, manually check for updates and download any that exist. If neither works I’d temporarily uninstall any third party antivirus programs you’re running.

If you’re still having trouble after this troubleshooting, please generate a text copy of your DxDiag using these instructions. Once you have that made, open the file. Copy the code below, then copy/paste everything from that DXDiag file between the rows of tilde (~) marks where it says “DXDiag goes here.”

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If the file’s too large to submit, you can upload it to a file hosting site like pastebin and post the link in the code above instead.