Extremely slow load times

[zangon]

Is anyone else experiencing heavy lag today? Usually its fine but today it seems to really be struggling to start my server and load the game.

[Kevin]

I haven’t gotten any particular lag myself on EU.

If it seems to be an issue, I would recommend going through:

World Size Check

An oversized world will typically manifest as FoundryVTT having a very slow initial load-in, or failing to load at all. A good rule of thumb for world sizes is: Normal: <= 10 MB Large: 10-20 MB Huge: 20-40 MB Typically you’ll start to see trouble around the 30+ MB mark. This is around the fact that FoundryVTT sends the world databases (that comprise that size) to every player on load. This will hurt players/users with slow internet connections the most. NOTABLE EXCEPTION: If you have thing…

Trouble with Modules

More often than not, if FoundryVTT (on The Forge, or otherwise) is running slowly, it’s the fault of modules that are having issues in some way (all by themselves, conflicting with others, conflicting with FoundryVTT version, and so on). This article is intended to give you the tools to find troublesome modules in a nice and simple fashion, so your sessions can be about playing a TableTop game, not about fighting the software. We’ve all been there, we grab up cool modules as they come out, use …

If you haven’t already

Hope that helps somewhat ^^