I have Fallout 4 installed on an SSD. Pre-patch, I was enjoying 2-3 second load times moving from one location to another, or moving from outdoors to indoors, or vice versa. Post-patch, and load times have inflated to 5-10 MINUTES in some places. Most of the time fast-travel works fine. But the kind of 'black-screen' loads that you encounter entering or exiting a 'dungeon' can drag out to several minutes now. An egregious example is the National Guard training facility - took me a half an hour to get through that area last night: Enter building - 5 mins. Kill a handful of ghouls, exit to training yard - 5 mintues. Walk 5 steps, enter barracks - 5 minutes, go up the stairs, kills ghouls, unlock the armoury, exit the building, 5 minutes. Enter armoury - 5 minutes, grab power armour, exit building - 5 minutes. That's a total of a half hour looking at a black screen, wondering if the machine has crashed.

This new bug has ruined the game. Can't get any kind of rhythm going in the game if I'm supposed to go take a coffee break every time I turn around. The computer itself doesn't actually seem to be doing much of anything during these long times - hard drive lights are not active, so it's not thrashing, loading, or saving anything that I can see. It almost feels like... garbage collection... The entire game loads and is playable in 30 seconds on this machine - these load times are something else.

On the other hand, I do notice that the FPS of the game has really smoothed out for me with this patch. But these load time issues are unreasonable. Why was the patch released in this state?

Do you run any mods? What older saves or even a new game?

No mods. I had just recently started my second run-through the game when Steam auto-updated to the latest patch. I noticed the problem right away. Fast travel is fine (any transition that brings up the 'model and tips' loading screen is unaffected -- It is only the 'black' transition screens that appear to have this issue). I'm not the only one talking about this problem, so I doubt that this is a local issue with my machine. Others who have experienced this same effect (some of them, reportedly DURING the beta - does nobody listen to beta testers?) have tried uninstalling and re-installing the game to no effect. Others have tried running the game as either fullscreen, or windowed borderless - no effect. Validating game cache - no effect.

After the new 1.3.47 update yesterday my load times on a regular ssd are maybee 12 seconds the 1.3 beta was terible imo

Is that something that gets automatically pushed through Steam or is this a beta update? I'll try anything

Yeah steam bottom.of page says that u can participate in betas under game properties , after that u can get the 1.3 beta but the latest 1.3.47 yesterday is better for the load times ,

I just want to make clear here, I did NOT run the beta. These comments are about the patch released on Steam the day before yesterday. I'm not sure where you get that version number from. My game files say they are 'BuildID 937808' on Steam under Properties/Local Files.

I would verify game cache and re down load game

Done and done. No effect. My next step is to move this back to a mechanical hard drive to see if it is an SSD issue. All of the complaints about this in other forums have been from SSD users for some reason.

I'm seeing a huge increase in load times since the patch as well upon interior to exterior transitions and the reverse. As long as 45 seconds so far. No "http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1588270-endless-loading-screens-much-more-common-after-update/" but before the patch it was just a few seconds. The saves load normally. Meaning within 3-4 seconds.

I too have the game installed on an SSD. My saves however are on an HDD.

Well, I'm the only one with low loading times?

As you haven't any mods, can you upload your save so i can test it on my PC? (PM the link)

Here if you don't mind: http://www.filedropper.com/

OK, I'll shoot that over to you asap. I've completely uninstalled and reinstalled the game from scratch - not much difference.

No issue for me too. I tried National Guard training facility, no increase in loading time ... Maybe there is problem with your save. Will be good if we can test it out.

Make sure there is nothing hogging your system and thus increase in disk activity.

I've been getting really long load times too. I'm running a fair number of mods, so my load times have always been a little slower, but there's been a big difference lately. Just like you're describing, I'm getting the short black loading screens dragging out for 2-3 minutes. If I fast travel somewhere the loading screen often takes a solid 4-5 minutes.