Game (PIE/Standalone) takes a long time to load/close

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Hello there,

like the title says, when I hit the PIE-Button, it takes quite some time to load the level. When I close the PIE-Window it sometimes takes up to a minute to close it completely before I can use the editor again. Especially on the first time I hit the PIE-Button. The second time it is a little bit faster.

When I close the Editor altogether, Visual Studio also keeps up the process (UE4) for some time. The UE4-Process seems to take up 11 GB of Memory (according to Visual Studio).

When I quit the packaged game it also takes very long before it closes.

I have the strong feeling that it has to do with the large amount of my instanced foliage. Since the trees in my level all have simple collision on them, I think it could take the program some time to clear the memory after shutdown?

Has anyone experienced this issue before? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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maybe its your computer finally running slow
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Thank you for your response, GameMaker.

Though I am using Windows 10, I already know most of the tweaks described in the article and used them already.

Also I don’t really think that Windows is the cause of the problem, because other levels do work without a problem.

Thanks though.

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Add RAM if possible
Avoid thermal throttling
Remove animations
Turn off autoupdate on all softwares

source of these tips: gamingsym