Loading Progress

Loading Progress is a RimWorld mod that adds a detailed loading progress window to the game. It visually tracks each stage of RimWorld's startup process, showing which step is currently running, along with your managed heap size and the game process's total memory usage next to the title. This makes waiting for RimWorld to start slightly more interesting. The mod is especially useful for those with large mod lists. No configuration required—just install and enjoy better insight into your game's loading process!

In-game loading progress

The progress window isn't just for startup anymore. It now also appears during in-game world generation, new-game map generation, loading a save, settling or setting up camp from a caravan, and the planet's map mesh regeneration, showing the current activity, elapsed time and, where possible, a progress bar for the current phase. For situations that freeze the game with no opportunity to show live progress (caravan arrivals, ambushes, transport pods, gravship landings, and similar), the window instead briefly appears without live progress.

Loading time impact tracking

Loosely based on the mod Startup Impact, the mod can track and show what mods are having what impact on your loading times. Click the loading time summary text in the bottom-right corner of your screen on the main menu to see the stats, including a sortable, filterable per-mod breakdown, a stacked comparison bar, and an option to export a self-contained HTML report you can open in any browser or share without RimWorld running. This feature is disabled by default; enable it in the mod's settings if you'd like to use it.

Mod compatibility

Known incompatibilities

• RimThemes — Makes this mod useless, because it just covers the whole loading process with a splash screen.

• Startup Impact Continued — Messes with the startup process in ways that ruin this mod's progress and startup impact tracking, and this mod now has its own startup impact tracking anyway, so it's doing double duty.

Troubleshooting

If you encounter any issues, try disabling the Enable patching of initialization code setting of Loading Progress to remove the most likely source of incompatibility. If that still doesn't work (and frankly, even if it does), please leave me a bug report so I can address the problem.

Translations

The mod is now fully translatable! Since we're loading very early on, we can't use the game's translation system because translations are literally not loaded yet, so I had to write my own. It's supposed to be fully compatible with the regular RimWorld translation organization system, so if you make a translation, and it doesn't work, please let me know so I can investigate.

Available translations

• Russian (built-in) originally by Aks, since maintained by machine translation. If someone's willing to move it into a separate mod and take ownership, I'd appreciate it.

• Chinese by 大番薯之怒

• Polish by Drizzt

Want your translation in this list? Release a translation mod (i.e. a mod with only a Languages folder, not a copy of this entire mod + the translation) for this mod, and notify me of its existence, and I'll add it to the list. Please license your translation mod in such a way that someone else can take over if you are no longer interested in doing the work at a later date.

Source code

Source code can be found on GitHub. Report any bugs or feature suggestions/requests on the issue tracker.

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