Mech Arena stuck on the loading screen forever

Posting from the other side of a very long troubleshooting session. I do not want to sink more time or money into it before I understand what I am optimising for.

Any pointers appreciated, even partial ones.

Had the exact same issue. do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

Counterpoint: region and server load matter more than most guides acknowledge.

Others may have a cleaner method.

This is the bit people miss — it depends heavily on your specific setup, so take any single number with a grain of salt.

For what it is worth, the safe move is the reversible one — you can always undo it if it makes things worse.

From experience, it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, region and server load matter more than most guides acknowledge.

Short version: temperature is the usual culprit when performance degrades over a session.

Worth a shot before anything drastic.

Worth checking first: nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

Report back once you have tried it.

I went through this last month. the wiki number is theoretical; real results are always a bit lower.

That fixed it for me, at least.

Same boat here. ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

This comes up a lot, so: ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

Only partly related, but it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

Let us know which part worked.

I went through this last month. do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.

Others may have a cleaner method.

Depends on your setup, but broadly do not copy someone else’s config wholesale — start from defaults and adjust to your own setup.

In my testing, nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

In my testing, the wiki number is theoretical; real results are always a bit lower.

Others may have a cleaner method.