I don't think the game was "optimized" at all.

Does your computer meet the minimum requirements? If not, maybe some of Marian's suggestions will work.

OS: Windows® 7 64-bit or later
Processor: Intel Core i3 3.00 GHz or AMD equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD 4000, 2GB of video RAM
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 8 GB available space

I thought the same thing, Jenny. But I checked four different website listings including systemrequirementslab and they all said the same exact thing.

My gaming PC loads the game to the menu in about 10-15 seconds. After seeing various posts from people with absurdly long load times, I tested the game on a couple laptops, starting with my current Dell XPS 15 which exceeds the requirements and didn’t have any problems (as expected though). I moved onto a much much older Samsung laptop from 2010 which is below the minimum requirements and it took a good 15-20 minutes of waiting on the loading screen until I got to the menu (it actually got there, surprisingly! frame rate wise the playability was next to nothing though)

I wanted to figure out why this was causing such an issue for people with computers that meet the minimum requirements (I didn’t have any other computers to test that really fit this criteria, I either had computers too far below the minimum requirements or ones which exceeded) so I decided to dig around the Unity log files for the game. What I found is more proof that the game is super unoptimized. According to the log, there is some messy code somewhere which causes a few errors on startup along with an inefficient way of loading things when the game starts up. A game of this size should definitely not be taking that long to load, especially with solid state drives and all that now.

Another good way to tell the game uses more resources than it really needs is that it begins making both of the fans on the graphics card in my gaming PC spin almost immediately after I get into the game - normally this doesn’t happen until the card actually needs it and temperatures/load gets high in a demanding game. Even then, it can take a little while for them to kick in.

The main thing that I’m mad about and feel for other people is HeR’s support team. They are barely offering technical support regarding MID and all I’ve seen so far suggested by them in reply to the game not loading or running as expected (on a computer which should be fine) is “Sorry! Your computer doesn’t meet the minimum requirements for this game.” This is annoying, because I know that they made the requirements for this game way too high for what it is, and that’s just another sign of laziness and poor optimization.

Ok. Here we go! Processor; AMD E-350 1.60 GHz
RAM; 4.00 GB(3.61 GB USABLE)