The Witcher 3’s Load Times Are Extremely Long Even After Dying During/Failing Quest

After hearing about The Witcher 3's long load times, ThisGenGaming timed how long the game takes to load after dying in a quest. The results are shockingly long. If this was loading a new area or loading up a save then 1 minute of loading doesn't seem too bad.

This means if you play the game on the hardest level and die 10 times during a boss fight you will have to wait 10 minutes in loading times to complete the boss fight.

[kitkokut]

All the more reason to prepare for the fights as it is designed. Although I feel a "Bloodborne" patch somewhere down the road for the load times.

[ArchangelMike]

We already know that CDPR are working on a patch, and patches will come ahead of the DLC etc.

The loading time are nowhere near 'extreme', and neither are they as long as Bloodborne post patch either.

At least not for me - PS4 ver.

[The_Sage]

Did you mean pre patch? Even so, I didn't think Bloodborne was over a minute before the patch, but I don't really remember.

[badz149]

if I'm not mistaken, before the patch, Bloodborne had like 40s average load time. it's now already significantly faster since the patch though.

[Neixus]

Bloodborne was mostly around 40 seconds, that is already unacceptable, but then The Witcher comes with a 70 second long load time? Now that is really bad.

I'm happy they're going to patch it though =D

[GameDev1]

Errr Blood borne loading time were about 40 to 50 seconds, it wasnt actually in minutes, but this was already frustrating given the difficulty of that genre

And compared to from software who already had the patch version in place and period in place to fix the loading times, CDPR have not said anything about it, so I wonder where you are getting that

The patch version 1.02 is to make DLC avaliable and doesnt fix anything

[HeavenlySnipes]

I haven't counted but after dying a 1000 tiems doing the griffin fight (playing on whatever diifficulty the hardest one is called), the load times seemed long as hell on PS4

[Alexander1Nevermind]

I noticed that they were long, but I also did not feel they were Bloodborne pre-patch long. For the record I have a hybrid drive so my times may be somewhat shorter than most.

[Azmatik]

I am playing on Death march difficulty and i die alot so i notice these load times even more and they are definatly unacceptable the load times piss me off more than a boss killing me.

[BeefCurtains]

I'm playing PC version, load times are pretty much nothing.

So we want a perfect game, no bugs, full hd resolution, 60fps, gigantic map, awesome story, interactive map, realistic graphics, and no loading screens, anything less and there will be articles about it. Just checking.

[thekhurg]

My load times are not as long as this video is showing (I'm on PS4).

[Thunder_G0d_Bane]

I don't experience any long load times on my PC, and I don't use a SSD.

Load times are normal and even shorter than expected in my experience so far.

[Haki1112]

I got the game installed to an Ssd I get Ssd I get like a ten second reload if I die on pc btw the hairworks looks incredible in this game

[Takwin]

I play on an SSD and an r290x at 1600p. It is glorious. Load times are almost nothing.

[Erik7357]

This is a console issue, not a pc issue though. On my hybrid hard drive loading times are very short.

[3-4-5]

* Let's be Real. That is just an unacceptable Load time.

It doesn't matter if the rest of the game is really good, you don't reason or justify a load time like that in any way.

It NEEDS to be fixed, but it also is really the only main complaint I've heard of so far. I'm sure there are other minor ones. Always are.

* That load time is just unacceptable. If you are ok with it, they will keep being this long or longer, if you are vocal about not wanting it, they will be pressured to fix it.

* I'd guess there is a fix on the way, but I don't see them fixing it much. Sounds like it's always going to be 45+ second load times.

[Pandamobile]

I'm glad I installed this to my SSD. Load times are only like 10-15 seconds usually.

[xPhearR3dx]

I have a semi-old HDD and my load times are 20-25 secs max. So either this guy is playing on Xbox, or has a HDD from the 90's. I was actually impressed with how fast the game loaded when I first started playing.

[hades07]

On Xbox I am getting about 20-30 secs as well so he must be playing on PC with some old HD from the 90s like you said.

[Khajiit86]

Get an SSD. I put GTAV on my HDD and I had loads of load issues, like crashing into invisible buildings with a chopper before the building fully loads. When I moved it to my SSD, every load issue was GONE!!! Its the only game that did that so far, but made me really happy I got the SSD.

[Stapleface]

Same, no long load times here.

[Kalebninja]

word, i was confused with this article because i didnt realize it installed on my ssd. when I teleport it was nearly instant.

[Articuno76]

I'm on an SSD as well. But mine are much shorter. Typically within 4 (maybe 5) seconds. For reference my processor is an FX8350, so not exactly a stallion of a CPU.

[WellyUK]

Not very long on my end about 30 seconds max on ps4.

[SilverClock]

Hate to be that guy, but the loading screens on the PC version are about 1-3 seconds...and no I don't call myself part of the master race. I'm not a douchebag dammit. I feel for you guys. I play console games too. But I do like occasionally rubbing stuff like this in though not gonna lie.
Haha

[NobleRed]

Good that I'm using a Toshiba SSHd in my ps4. Got killed 10 times during the first boss battle. Took me like 15 seconds of loading to repeat the boss fight.

[Koopdogg]

Can't even think how long i've been waiting during loading screens cos i've died A LOT

[Sokol]

Very odd, my load times are around 20-25 seconds (PS4 version).

He probably has older HDD on the PC.

[madcowz64]

Yeah same here, never experienced that long of a load time.

[kraenk12]

10-20 seconds on my 7200rpm normal HDD on my middle class PC. Don't know what this guy is on about.

[Bladesfist]

I am also getting ~5 - 10 second load times on PC. On a RAID 0 HDD array.

[Cra2yey3]

For someone that died many many times during the first fight scene on Death March difficulty, I didn't think the load times were that bad.

[vikingland1]

Flambait headline because not everyone has long load times. It should say I'm experiencing long load times. I've noticed a few articles recently on n4g about people having technical issues with this game. That's not the case for me, on my ps4 the game is running great. I did see it crash on my son's ps4 when he tried to play the card game so I know some players are having legit issuses. I turned the offer to play the card game down and everything has been good for me.

[ps5fanboy]

*spits out crunchy nuts*

[MilkMan]

considering once its loaded, it never loads again AND combat is not that difficult to master once you understand it... Its not ULTRA brutal like Bloodborne. If they can patch it up and make it quicker then excellent, but its not a game breaker by any means.

[Lukaszram]

on PS4 my loading times are like 20-30sec, and atleast they show u something or run some audio unlike it was in Bloodborne where u just had that logo to look at for 40sec...

[brainfart]

It's on my ssd it takes less than 10 sec to load!!!

[BlackPhillip666]

Seriously for the time gonna be invested in this world i cba what the load time is.

[Delivorance]

On Xbox it takes about 15 sec to load back in running the game from my external drive. 3.0 USB / 7200rpm.

[ninjahunter]

Huh, on my comp its just 15 seconds, and thats on a rag tag 5400rpm hdd.

[oIITSBIIo]

3 seconds on my PC.

[OneLove]

Xbox only takes about 13 seconds. Physical disc. At least for me anyways. I might add that my Xbox has a kinect if that power decrease even matters.

[GoGoGadge7]

Bought it digitally. Longest I wait is 10 seconds.

I'll admit though, there are moments (like the griffin fight) where I died, and had to watch that damn cutscene 6 times. Yes I died 6 times...

[TheHaloGuy]

I died more. You can skip cutscenes with X. Using an Xbox One Controller on PC

[TheHaloGuy]

Don't have slow load times on PC. Is this a console only issue?

[kainslayer]

yes

[TheHaloGuy]

Can confirm. Friends gettin his ass beat by a bunch o wolves and Werewolf repeatedly. Spawns after about 5 seconds

[Anghellic]

On ps4 it takes me around 1min to respawn

[AndreR]

i have it on my ps4, and i never notice any long loading times afer you die. i tested it now, i died and it took me 20 sec to respawn.

[JackieDrunken]

Playing on PS4, and they are long for me. I actually dropped the difficulty from hard to medium so I won't die as much and look at loads. But this is my first time playing a Witcher game and just want to soak it all up my first playthrough and enjoy it. I'll up the difficulty for 2nd playthrough.

They can patch this up and shorten them probably? Like BloodBorne, which is another great game.

Regardless, love this game so far!

[rodelthegreat]

I'm on PC and the load time is pretty much instantaneous

[Gwynbleidd]

I installed the game on an external SSD drive on my Xbox One and the loading is very quick. It is somewhere in the range between instantaneous to 10 sec, depending on where I die. But I am nowhere near a minute. Maybe it is a problem with internal drive installations on the consoles?

[Gamer1982]

But its not an exclusive so it doesnt count unlike bloodbourne right?

[immabadguy]

Loading screens are 20 seconds maximum on ps4 with first update installed...

[spoonard]

I bet hybrid drives are getting more and more popular. During the while thing with Bloodborne, my hybrid drive never took longer than 10 or 15 seconds to reload the game when normal stock drives were taking 40+ seconds.