[2022] How to fix slow load times, and FIX SLOW HDD and SLOW SSD

Check your HDD utilization in Task Manager while loading instead of CPU utilization. I expect it to be pegged at 100% because loading is being bottlenecked by your HDD. There's no way to make your HDD load things faster.

You can try enabling the experimental async loading code we have but I have no idea what difference it'll make in this case. Set your launch options for Rust to: +asyncWarmup true +warmupConcurrency 64 +preloadConcurrency 128 +forceUnloadBundles false

Please let me know if you run into any issues when using these launch options.

Originally posted by xWR: turn off swap files

Definitely don't do this. It will just cause problems.