[General] Long, LONG Warcraft 3 Reforged Launch

[The Nightmare Book]

I encountered the same issue as Warcraft 3 delayed launch topic-starter of these.
I've Reforged on C: but it takes so long to launch even a simple map - like 8s-1.5 mins.
I don't know why and what it causes, currently I haven't reinstalled it.

 

[Gnuoy]

Sometimes that happens on all my Battle.net 2.0 games, just manually open it from whereever it's saved, speeds it up sometimes.

Edit: sometimes this still doesn't work and it can be frustrating for bnet games to randomly take 5 mins to start. if anyone knows any better solutions. please post.

 

[Campocalypse7]

Do you have a lot of pre-placed units on your map (critters, player units, creep camps)? Or does it start completely empty?

One thing I've personally experienced & been able to reproduce consistently is that my load times increase linearly with the number of units I've hand-placed on my map. I think it may have something to do with the engine trying to calculate all their pathing during map initialization, but that's just my guess.

I've considered using scripts to place them after the map loads to see if that would help, but I haven't had the time or energy.

 

[The Nightmare Book]

Do you have a lot of pre-placed units on your map (critters, player units, creep camps)? Or does it start completely empty?

One thing I've personally experienced & been able to reproduce consistently is that my load times increase linearly with the number of units I've hand-placed on my map. I think it may have something to do with the engine trying to calculate all their pathing during map initialization, but that's just my guess.

I've considered using scripts to place them after the map loads to see if that would help, but I haven't had the time or energy.

Yes, map has pre-placed units. But I experience this issue even on nearly-empty maps.
However right now this long start isn't big problem, maybe because launching only WC3 and nothing else can be helpful for CPU.