I'm experiencing a frustrating issue where certain games are taking an unusually long time to load and sometimes freeze on launch. This happens with games like Brawlhalla, Roblox, and Citra (the 3DS emulator). For instance, Brawlhalla shows a black screen for around 30 seconds before loading slowly and stuttering, even freezing when I connect my controller. Roblox often displays a frozen loading screen for about 30 seconds before it finally starts. Citra has a similar problem and takes its time to show up. Although games like Minecraft and Dead by Daylight work perfectly fine, I'm puzzled by why this happens with specific titles. It's not related to regular apps, and restarting the PC sometimes helps, though it rarely works on the first attempt. I found a related Steam discussion but my issue starts right from booting up. I'm considering a full reset with a legit copy of Windows 11, as I'm currently on Pro through an unofficial activation. Here are my specs for reference: a Gigabyte H610M motherboard, Intel i5-12400F CPU, Zotac RTX 3060 GPU, 16GB DDR4 RAM, a 512GB NVMe SSD, and a 1TB Samsung SSD. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
2 Answers
It sounds like you might be dealing with a slow or faulty disk. I'd recommend trying to install the problematic games on your secondary disk and check if that changes anything.
What type of drive are you using? Is it an SSD or HDD? Sometimes the type can affect load times significantly.
I updated my post with the specs. I have a Silicon Power P34A60 512GB NVMe SSD and a Samsung 860 Evo 1TB.
I considered that too, but it doesn't seem to matter which drive they're on. Even after moving Brawlhalla to my Samsung SSD, it still acted the same way. Some of my LEGO games on the Samsung also struggle to start. Yet, other titles on the same SSD work fine. I tried switching games between drives and the results are inconsistent.