World of Warships stuck on the loading screen forever

Been chewing on this for a while, so I figured I would ask here. It works fine most of the time, but the edge cases are where I keep getting stuck.

Two settings appear to interact in a way the menu does not hint at. Marking this solved once something actually works.

Worth checking first: the defaults are conservative on purpose, so there is usually headroom to gain.

Worth checking first: the trick is to change one thing at a time and actually note the result before touching anything else.

Agreed on most of this, except the community guide covers this better than I can, but the summary is to prioritise the basics first.

Worth a shot before anything drastic.

Only partly related, but it depends heavily on your specific setup, so take any single number with a grain of salt.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

Not the answer you want, but ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, the trick is to change one thing at a time and actually note the result before touching anything else.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

The usual fix here is keep a note of what you changed, otherwise you cannot undo it cleanly later.

The usual fix here is it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

The usual fix here is measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.

Counterpoint: measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.

Worth checking first: the difference is real but small enough that you may not notice it while playing.

Report back once you have tried it.

Slightly different take — check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

Depends on your setup, but broadly you get most of the benefit from the first adjustment; everything after that is marginal.

Agreed on most of this, except do not copy someone else’s config wholesale — start from defaults and adjust to your own setup.

Adding to the above: do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.