[Jak2] Slow area loading

[SvenatorNL]

Acknowledgements

• I have searched for duplicate or closed bug reports
• I understand that I am supposed to provide my own legitimately obtained copy of the game

Describe the Bug

When walking or flying through the city to a different area either of the city or outside, the area's are not loaded.
Enemies and items are, but the geometry sometimes takes a while to show up.
Same happens when going from an outside area to the city. I also had that the vault room in between wasn't loaded.

How To Reproduce

Just moving through the city to different area's is enough to reproduce.
Otherwise try leaving through the city wall.

Does this problem occur on original hardware or PCSX2?

Didn't check

Expected Behavior

next area should be loaded when opening the wall door.

Environment Information

opengoal 2.10.4
tooling 0.3.5
Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
AMD Ryzen 9 9950x3d
Nvidia Geforce RTX 3090
Nvida Game Ready Driver 610.74 (july 7,2026)
64 GB DDR5 7200Mhz

Game Version

PAL

Have you set the game to something other than 60fps?

No

[wojtulace]

Yeah, this is pretty annoying. Moving the game to SSD didn't help so it's an engine issue.

[ManDude]

The graphics loading is completely decoupled from the GOAL thread and operates at a fixed rate per frame. Will be fixed (or "fixed") eventually.

[SvenatorNL]

Allright, good to know, for now i just hangout at the loading zones till things are loaded.
It's pretty funny though when you get into the city and the Jet's aren't loaded yet xD You do see the headlights, just not the jets nor characters xD