Opt in texture priority/ character control while texture loading

This is bugging me since multiple leagues , probably since we swap to the poe2 engine , im not sure. At one time the load times for me just became bad in a sense that i still remember them and it lead to me making this topic. (this was written last but i feel like it should be here.)

I was thinking about why i want to play poe1 less and less. The gameplay didn't become worse. But i do need to wait more per interaction meaning leaving map, entering hideout, entering town. I have a Samsung SSD 870 QVO 1tb, my mobo doesn't support m.2. Yes i have old hardware, rocking 1070ti with 16gb i7 w/e the point is there is a lot of idle time for me waiting on load screens that shouldn't be there to begin with, what i mean is i think it should be handled differently.

I would like to suggest an option to partially load game assets by need.

To my understanding how loading into town works is the game will wait till i load in everything on that screen or in whole town i do not know but what if we would have an option to opt into something that maybe doesn't look that pretty but loading( loading here is not the right word because what i would want is having access to my character before the textures are fully loaded in) and trading is much faster by only loading in the absolute neseccary things to interact with first. Going to town i want to load in the barest minimum ground, the EXIT instance door, the waypoint, regular chest , than traders. Entering a hideout from a map, any hideout , i would like to load in the skeleton of the type of hideout without any assets by any players, a chest, a party ui if in party so if i'm mapping and someone whispers for a 1 chaos item and i feel like a good guy and want to sell him the item i don't have to wait 30 seconds to pop outside fully loaded in. I know there will be the tabs yes, but i would love to still do trading because i love it and since it takes me so long to load in i started trading less and less and well frankly playing less too.

I just want to have the option to not load in everything to get to the functionality.


When i wanna go outside of a map i don't want to be outside 30 seconds later when i see people load in instantly on streams i die a little bit inside. I want to have the feeling without the fluff, i don't mind if i don't see my character right away if anything that should be the last thing to load in.

I remember once i played poe1 on a really bad notebook that had 0 reason to run the game because it was so bad but i was able to go into the config and turn everything full potato and essentially play with the functionality w/o the fluff if that makes sense, im not suggesting to bring this back! i bet there was a good reason why it got changed.

What i would want on entering a map: terrain of map rare monsters

If its not clear i would still want to load in the assets just would like to control my character while the assets are being loaded in the priority i said.


If you have a better understanding of why what i want would be bad , please post also sorry for the rambling and the typos it took me a while till i pieced the idea together.

The crazy part about town loads is that you can load into maps/bosses not having loaded all abilities and get hit by invisible shit.

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