Hey Everyone, 

I've noticed recently that when I try to launch a game, that it takes a while to launch. I have everything on an SSD, so no issues there. When I click to launch, the screen stays windowed as shown below for 3-4 minutes. When I launch iRacing, I get "Launching the sim." and it stays that way for 3-4 minutes as well before it starts loading the sim/track. Once the game has loaded, everything is per usual as with a game loaded on an SSD. Any suggestions on how to fix?

The only time this doesn't happen is after initial system startup. If I open a game after initial startup, it launches normally with no issues. If I exit, and try to launch a 2nd time, that's when the issue occurs.

Have you taken a look to see if there's any unusual activity in the Task Manager at the time of slowdown?

Exit all all other apps like Frostbite and see how the startup speeds are.
Is Game Mode Enabled or Disabled in the OS?
Look in Task Manager {Details} and sort by CPU and see what has this Highest % Running.

See if #7 listed here fixes the issue.

NazcaC2
That's certainly not normal though and the OP shouldn't have to set that for every game they play. It's a workaround, but I'd really like to know the actual cause.

Agreed - I don't remember making any changes, but that doesn't mean I didn't. The only updates I recall making recently would be graphics drivers updates.

BDay33
So, after trying Sajin's suggestion, I tried launching BFV, Madden 19, and iRacing. All launched normally and I thought my issue was fixed. I sat down to play last night, and I'm back to square one with the slow launch times. Here's a screen grab of my task manager as Madden 19 is launching.



I went back and made sure that "Disable fullscreen optimizations" was checked, and it was. No changes have been made to the system. Any ideas?

As a test how about exiting out of stuff that is not needed, I see steam is launched, you have xsplit open, is madden 19 launched through origin?

GGTV-Jon

BDay33
So, after trying Sajin's suggestion, I tried launching BFV, Madden 19, and iRacing. All launched normally and I thought my issue was fixed. I sat down to play last night, and I'm back to square one with the slow launch times. Here's a screen grab of my task manager as Madden 19 is launching.



I went back and made sure that "Disable fullscreen optimizations" was checked, and it was. No changes have been made to the system. Any ideas?

As a test how about exiting out of stuff that is not needed, I see steam is launched, you have xsplit open, is madden 19 launched through origin?

Gave this a try last night, still having the same issue. This is really bizarre...

BDay33

NazcaC2
That's certainly not normal though and the OP shouldn't have to set that for every game they play. It's a workaround, but I'd really like to know the actual cause.

Agreed - I don't remember making any changes, but that doesn't mean I didn't. The only updates I recall making recently would be graphics drivers updates.

Time to try some older drivers.