Split timeline delay

[Sirioh]

Is there anything I can do performance-wise to improve the time it takes to return to a previous point in the timeline, for example when Precognition fades?

I'd like to play PMs more but making effective use of Precog or other time-splitting effects is so irritating when it takes 30 seconds or more returning to an old point. It feels like it takes even longer than normal zone or game loading.

[HousePet]

Maybe defragment your harddisk?

[Sirioh]

On further consideration, it looks like it is just a problem with the ID. Playing the main campaign, with or without the ID-500 addon, the load times on resetting the timeline are much better, almost instantaneous. (ID with and without the ID-500 addon is the same, slow.)

Although the ID floors are much larger, perhaps timeline-splitting effects are handled as efficiently in the ID as they are in the main campaign?

[HousePet]

In which case I'm guessing it is storing the entire dungeon which is why it takes a while to recover it.

[Sirioh]

I considered that reason, though I'm not well versed in how the game handles various zones. Although there's only a single file in an ID save, compared to the campaign's various zones split into their own files, the filesize is no larger than an average zone - at least at the start, where the delay still exists even if all you do immediately after character creation is pop Precog then cancel it immediately.

Also, because I have terrible habit of leaving out whole, important, words, I must correct myself:

perhaps timeline-splitting effects are not handled as efficiently