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Mod, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
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16 Feb, 2020 @ 8:57am
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Github Link: https://github.com/SamboyCoding/RimworldBetterLoading

Now with 1.4 support (in beta, not fully tested) and 1.5 support (even less tested!)!


For best results, please put this mod ABOVE core in the mod list.

Compatible with rimworld 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5 (1.0 is on a very old version of the mod, though, and 1.1-1.4 aren't being updated anymore)

If you see any progress bar turn red, it means that a mod errored while loading - check the in-game log for details

If you encounter issues, there are a number of ways to contact me - these are listed on github. Leaving a comment here will eventually reach me but it may take several hours, while other methods could be much quicker.

BetterLoading aims to improve your game loading experience.

In vanilla RimWorld, once you get past about 50 mods, the process of loading up the game largely consists of staring at a repeating "..." prompt for anywhere up to several minutes.

It's better now than it used to be, but in extreme cases, this can still take up to half an hour. And for that half-hour, you're just staring at that "...".

This mod doesn't improve load times. But what it does do is give you an actually useful loading screen so you can see that something is, in fact, happening.

It also reduces (though doesn't remove, due to technical limitations) the freezing that can be observed towards the end of the loading process.

Experimental: Mod Dependency Helper

I've been seeing an increasing number of weird issues involving mods not loading properly. BetterLoading has been able to detect this and refuse to load since 2.3.0.0, and as of 2.4.0.0 it will attempt to work out which mods are required to fix the mods that are screwing up, and whether you've got them loaded but in the wrong order, you haven't got them loaded, or you haven't got them installed - this info can be found in the in-game log, assuming you don't have so many errors that the log no longer works (which is about 300).

Incompatibilities, Interactions, and Workarounds

There is a known bug for users running Rimworld on Linux where running both BetterLoading and Simple Sidearms will cause the game to crash once it's almost finished loading. Unfortunately, this is proving very difficult to fix.

Startup Impact appears to work with BetterLoading (at least on Windows), but some of its data will be missing. If you encounter any issues and are running it, try disabling it first before reporting.

Some issues have been discovered with mods that override textures not working if (and only if) Combat Extended is installed, but I've yet to work out how to fix this.

RimThemes adds its own loading screen that overrides this mod's one, but you can turn that off in the RimThemes settings which will allow BetterLoading to function.
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10 May, 2022 @ 4:55am
1.3 Error Reporting
Delta1138
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22 Aug, 2022 @ 5:08am
Loading screen intermittently fails to detect end-of-loading for a game [no reliable repro yet]
SlippyCheeze
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23 Feb, 2022 @ 3:16pm
Not working when loading a save
Trollsmeden
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Abuser 11 Sep @ 12:21pm 
The problem is probably in rimthemes, when changing the theme, the interface disappears
Abuser 11 Sep @ 2:15am 
Ki Shuya I have same issue :steamsad:
Ki Shuya 6 Sep @ 1:48am 
So when I use this mod i'm not getting any errors, but the main menu is missing most of the UI. Everything is still clickable, it's just invisible. Remove the mod and everything appears again. Anyone else run into anything similar?
Samboy063  [author] 4 Sep @ 3:03am 
Sounds believable that it's prepatcher.
Varthian 24 Aug @ 10:41am 
Some bizarre behavior where on load the text for current phase of loading will overlap and freeze wonder if its from prepatcher/performance fish.
Mark McCloud 24 Aug @ 8:33am 
The game can insist a mod is still installed even if it isn't active or even downloaded if the game's config files are telling it the mod is still there. I've had this happen before. The fix is to completely erase that config file and purge the mod configs as well for insurance (in case the mod left something behind). It means having to re-config your mods afterward, so be warned.
Samboy063  [author] 24 Aug @ 8:02am 
That's... not how any of this works? You clearly haven't uninstalled it.
Luka 23 Aug @ 6:30am 
this mod might as well be malware. i have uninstalled it yet it still runs at start. wtf :steamthumbsdown:
xTrekkster 17 Aug @ 4:27pm 
Any way to fix it when it freezez at step 3 - 1%, and stays like that until the game is loaded? Tips still cycle and its not frozen but it wont move past that
Samboy063  [author] 15 Aug @ 6:16pm 
That's really odd, from memory that step is basically instant usually which is why it's not more split.