Why does the Steam version take 3-4 minutes to launch?

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Great game. Love it.

However, the time the game takes to actually launch is about 4 minutes after I click the PLAY button in steam. Is this normal? If not, what can I do to shorten the launch time please? This doesn’t happen with any of my other steam games.

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Is your game installed on an SSD? If not, that will speed it up a tonne.

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Thanks for your reply. No, it isn’t. The game runs fine when it launches. I have zero issues in-game.

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I have a similar (or the same) problem. Sometimes (maybe around 50%) I press the “Play” button and Steam says the game is running, but the game is nowhere to be seen. Even after waiting a few minutes, nothing. Then I stop it and try again, until it works after a few tries.

(Linux btw, no idea if it matters in this case)

Edit: The CPU is working hard if that happens and the fans get louder, so something is happening even if the game window doesn’t come up.

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I’ve always had this issue. I have moved my steam to a SSD and it still takes 2 mins to load. PoE 2 is instant. I’m actually not sure why LE is this way.

Yea same issue but it’s 2 mins on SSD

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I’m confused. It’s only <30s for mine to get to the “play online” button (~15s till the LE splash screen comes up). Am I doing it wrong? Is my generic SSD from 2-3 years ago too fast (it’s definitely not an nVME drive)? I’m not sure I have a HDD any more to test it out on.

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same issue here on Linux, sometimes the game just doesn’t launch. It either takes ~10 seconds for the window to show or it never does.

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Also Linux + nvme.

I’ve found more often than not that game won’t launch on first attempt. The process is running but nothing else. However, if I cancel the game and relaunch, it takes less than 20 seconds to get me to the login/Play Offline Window(s).

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It seems to have gotten worse with last week’s update, I now need 3-4 attempts to launch the game. A friend of mine started to see the same problems on windows.

The log of such an attempt looks like this:

[Physics::Module] Initialized MultithreadedJobDispatcher with {0} workers.
Initialize engine version: 2021.3.42f1 (f1197811e8ce)
[Subsystems] Discovering subsystems at path Z:/opt/games/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Last Epoch/Last Epoch_Data/UnitySubsystems
GfxDevice: creating device client; threaded=1; jobified=1
Direct3D:
    Version:  Direct3D 11.0 [level 11.1]
    Renderer: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT (RADV NAVI32) (ID=0x747e)
    Vendor:   ATI
    VRAM:     16368 MB
    Driver:   31.0.21902.5
D3D11 device created for Microsoft Media Foundation video decoding.
Odin Serializer ArchitectureInfo initialization with defaults (all unaligned read/writes disabled).
UnityEngine.Logger:Log(LogType, Object)
UnityEngine.Debug:Log(Object)
Sirenix.Serialization.GlobalSerializationConfig:get_Logger()
Sirenix.Serialization.BinaryDataReader:EnterArray(Int64&)
Sirenix.Serialization.ListFormatter`1:DeserializeImplementation(List`1&, IDataReader)
Sirenix.Serialization.BaseFormatter`1:Deserialize(IDataReader)
Sirenix.Serialization.BaseFormatter`1:Sirenix.Serialization.IFormatter.Deserialize(IDataReader)
Sirenix.Serialization.AnySerializer:ReadValueWeak(IDataReader)
Sirenix.Serialization.ReflectionFormatter`1:DeserializeImplementation(T&, IDataReader)
Sirenix.Serialization.BaseFormatter`1:Deserialize(IDataReader)
Sirenix.Serialization.BaseFormatter`1:Sirenix.Serialization.IFormatter.Deserialize(IDataReader)
Sirenix.Serialization.AnySerializer:ReadValueWeak(IDataReader)
Sirenix.Serialization.UnitySerializationUtility:DeserializeUnityObject(Object, IDataReader)
Sirenix.Serialization.UnitySerializationUtility:DeserializeUnityObject(Object, Byte[]&, List`1&, DataFormat, DeserializationContext)
Sirenix.Serialization.UnitySerializationUtility:DeserializeUnityObject(Object, SerializationData&, DeserializationContext, Boolean, List`1)
Sirenix.Serialization.UnitySerializationUtility:DeserializeUnityObject(Object, SerializationData&, DeserializationContext)
Sirenix.OdinInspector.SerializedMonoBehaviour:UnityEngine.ISerializationCallbackReceiver.OnAfterDeserialize()
UnityEngine.Resources:Load(String)
AbilityManager:get()
AbilityManager:EditorReset()

The log of a successful launch starts in the same way and continues with an error message - maybe it’s related?

The referenced script on this Behaviour (Game Object '<null>') is missing!
<RI> Initializing input.

<RI> Input initialized.

<RI> Initialized touch support.

UnloadTime: 2.501000 ms
Uploading Crash Report
2025-05-11T15:10:49.5195315+00:00	Exception	System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
  at Cysharp.Threading.Tasks.PlayerLoopHelper.AddAction (Cysharp.Threading.Tasks.PlayerLoopTiming timing, Cysharp.Threading.Tasks.IPlayerLoopItem action) [0x00000] in <00000000000000000000000000000000>:0

(and so on)

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Similar. Usually my game will launch within a minute or so. But sometimes it takes a bit, and once in a while it won’t launch at all, although Steam says it’s running.