Mine is the lag in Stellaris, and lack of options to let me impact it. Like let me disable the ability for the AI to make habitats FFS!

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Progress bars going to 100%. Many games are guilty of this, Baldur’s Gate 3 most recently. If 100% are loaded, why am I seeing the loading screen still? The game should be starting. You’re clearly not at 100% if I’m still watching the loading screen. It should be impossible to see a fully filled progress bar.

Artificially make progress bars stop at 99% if you must, it’s still better than watching 100% being a clear lie.

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I would take no progress bar at all. Progress bars are inaccurate because the time it takes for an action to be done on a computer is unpredictable.

It also causes an illusion of something loading faster.

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Progress bars are bad indicators for representing remaining work or time, but it’s a decent indicator that something is still being done. Though it’s uncommon these days, I remember several instances of older games that has stopped loading. Showing the same percent for a minute is a decent indicator that something has gone wrong.

While I don’t care for percent as a displayed number, I do enjoy some kind of indicator showing that the loading is progressing.

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Are you playing MP? I’ve never seen this but I would suspect it’s done loading and simply waiting for the other players

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No, this is in single player. Both when I load the main menu and the game. On a brand new pc, too.

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