I just rebuilt my PC, upgrading from a 7-year-old Athlon X4 to a new i7-7700K. Was and am still using the same 4GB Geforce GTX 970. Also have 16GB of PC3200 RAM.
Prior to rebuilding, I was able to play Hitman and Fallout 4 on reasonably high settings, with pretty quick/reasonable load times. Honestly probably above average and surprisingly good for how old my system was (aside from the new 970 video card).
However, now that I've reinstalled on the i7-7700K, it takes forever for these games to start up. I timed Hitman last night, and it was a solid 3 minutes of black screen before I got the intro text and title logo. Fallout 4 takes a couple minutes as well. Once in-game, the quality and speed are all great. But 2-3 minutes to even start the game seems wrong on a brand new system... especially since my old Athlon X4 used to load these same games in about 20 seconds.
Any idea what this could be?
Prior to rebuilding, I was able to play Hitman and Fallout 4 on reasonably high settings, with pretty quick/reasonable load times. Honestly probably above average and surprisingly good for how old my system was (aside from the new 970 video card).
However, now that I've reinstalled on the i7-7700K, it takes forever for these games to start up. I timed Hitman last night, and it was a solid 3 minutes of black screen before I got the intro text and title logo. Fallout 4 takes a couple minutes as well. Once in-game, the quality and speed are all great. But 2-3 minutes to even start the game seems wrong on a brand new system... especially since my old Athlon X4 used to load these same games in about 20 seconds.
Any idea what this could be?