First off, and to be clear, this isn't a thread asking on how to fix my load times. I know an SSD would be better and help the game load quicker than a regular Hard Drive. This is also a reformatted computer, so I'm not going to have issues with the other usual culprits. Plus, load times are about the same both pre and post reformatting so it's doubtful that would help anyways.
What I'm actually more curious though is why Civ5 has the longest startup time of any game I've ever played (that is the time it takes from starting the game to get access to the main menu). I've played dozens of games all with varying levels of complexities and mods installed. But as far as I recall, at least on this current rig, there isn't another game that takes minutes to startup. So I am just curious what makes Civ5 so special. I've heard on one thread that it's all the xmls it has to load or the way their formatted. But I've dealt with a game like Skyrim that I've had over a hundred mods and it takes fraction of the time to get everything going.
So yeah, just curious not looking for help at this point. Thanks in advance for the responses.
What I'm actually more curious though is why Civ5 has the longest startup time of any game I've ever played (that is the time it takes from starting the game to get access to the main menu). I've played dozens of games all with varying levels of complexities and mods installed. But as far as I recall, at least on this current rig, there isn't another game that takes minutes to startup. So I am just curious what makes Civ5 so special. I've heard on one thread that it's all the xmls it has to load or the way their formatted. But I've dealt with a game like Skyrim that I've had over a hundred mods and it takes fraction of the time to get everything going.
So yeah, just curious not looking for help at this point. Thanks in advance for the responses.