Guild Wars 2

My loading screens are taking ages to load, between four and seven minutes in most cases.
I was wondering if there was a reason that this is happening as it has only started doing this in the last week or so.
I would be grateful if anyone could suggest a fix for this. I am not very technically minded so if there was a simple solution that would be great.
When I get past the loading screen the inventory and map take time to appear also, the sound is about one minute behind everything as well.
This is really ruining my enjoyment of the game, any suggestions would be great.

Try adding this to your shortcut.
“x:\blah\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -maploadinfo

You will see map loading percentage. If it stays at 0% or is going up really slowly you can just Alt + F4 out of the game and reload back in. I have this bug sometimes and restarting the game seems to fix it.

ty, will try this

Simplest thing to do – remove the GW2 data file and let the game “reinstall”. When you start the game, it will simply download it again. You can also add “–repair” to the shortcut as described here: https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/28148006-Repairing-the-Game-Client

4-7 minutes plus the delays is definetly abnormal. An SSD loads a map in 5-15 seconds (LA and other cities are on the far end of the scale).

my SSD is a bit bogged down but still manages 12-20s depending if it’s LA or not…

I’m using a usb3 flash drive and loading in 3-7 seconds. You may indeed need to -repair but you may also need to defrag badly – especially if gw2 is on the same drive as your OS.

this could be a hard drive / parsing issue but only if the maps didn’t always take this long to load.

if your map load times have always been this slow you might try lowering your graphics settings a few notches.