# Is it possible to have a Level load While the user is preoccupied with something else?

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/is-it-possible-to-have-a-level-load-while-the-user-is-preoccupied-with-something-else/353116>\
**Category:** Rendering\
**Tags:** unreal-engine, Rendering, Blueprint, question\
**Created:** [April 6, 2016, 6:01am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/is-it-possible-to-have-a-level-load-while-the-user-is-preoccupied-with-something-else/353116 "2016-04-06T06:01:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![FiendCorp](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/fiendcorp/32/754829_2.png) [@FiendCorp](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/FiendCorp)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 6:01am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/is-it-possible-to-have-a-level-load-while-the-user-is-preoccupied-with-something-else/353116/1 "2016-04-06T06:01:00Z")

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Hello, i was trying to bridge multiple levels together when i finally tried to play the demo of what i have so far. While i was trying to troubleshoot the demo, i realized that it took about 5-10 mins per map (level) to load. I was just wondering (and i couldnt find anything about this on the forums), but was there a way to somehow "load the level while the user or player is in another level. In other word, is it possible to load level #2 while you are playing level # 1 so that switching levels is faster. When the player would get to level 2, level 3 would then pre-load, awaiting the user/player to “enter” level 3… or is that level streaming?

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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_fbe5155f](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_fbe5155f](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_fbe5155f)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/is-it-possible-to-have-a-level-load-while-the-user-is-preoccupied-with-something-else/353116/2 "2016-04-06T06:57:57Z")

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Yes have a look at Level Streaming.

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**Author:** ![FiendCorp](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/fiendcorp/32/754829_2.png) [@FiendCorp](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/FiendCorp)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/is-it-possible-to-have-a-level-load-while-the-user-is-preoccupied-with-something-else/353116/3 "2016-04-06T13:35:24Z")

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I thought level streaming was for loading certain sections of a level or map , not complete other maps in a whole?

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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_fbe5155f](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_fbe5155f](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_fbe5155f)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/is-it-possible-to-have-a-level-load-while-the-user-is-preoccupied-with-something-else/353116/4 "2016-04-06T22:19:12Z")

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**Author:** ![FiendCorp](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/fiendcorp/32/754829_2.png) [@FiendCorp](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/FiendCorp)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 2:57am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/is-it-possible-to-have-a-level-load-while-the-user-is-preoccupied-with-something-else/353116/5 "2016-04-07T02:57:35Z")

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Awesome, that helped a lot, thank you