INTRO This guide is for runners who play on the Steam PC port. Due to the nature of playing on PC, load times can vary quite a bit from person to person, depending on your computer's build. In general, it has been noted that the game is consistent with its loading per-person depending on the type of load. We generally refer to the game having 2 main types of loads.

TYPES OF LOADS

• "black screen loads", which are when the game has a black screen with the Ty logo visible while loading. These seem to have no limit to how fast they can be, and these screens are generally where the majority of variance in load times are between people.
• "airlock loads", which are when Ty is in the "airlock" areas of the game, the spaces where there are 2 gates that trap Ty in a space while the game loads. The time spent in airlocks have a limit on how fast they can be due to the time of having to wait for the gate to physically open, but can definitely also vary quite a bit depending on the person.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION It's important to note is that all PC runs require the use of a loadless timer, which cuts out all instances of black screen loads from runs, so you don't need to worry about those. Airlock loads, however, are still included in run timing, due to 2 reasons. On a technical front, we have been unable to find a method that allows the loadless timer to exclude these areas. On a practical front, it proved to be unnecessary in the first place, as with the suggested actions below have proven to make the vast majority of people have very very similar airlock load times.

HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR LOADS Both types of loads are benefitted greatly by taking 2 actions.

1. Making sure you have the game installed on an SSD (solid state drive). SSDs are increasingly common in computer builds, so in time this might not need to be explicitly said, but many people don't realize the speed increase your computer can get by having an SSD instead of a traditional HDD (hard disk drive). This option would require money to buy an SSD if you don't already have one, so if this is not feasible for you, check #2 as well.

2. Turning off v-sync in your graphics card's settings. Ty 2 does not have a vsync option accessible in-game directly, but generally speaking you never want vsync on for speedgames (unless it introduces performance issues or glitches). If unfamiliar, vsync artificially caps the game's framerate to match your monitor's refresh rate (how often your monitor displays images, aka hertz). For example, if your game is running at 150fps but your monitor can only display images at 144hz, then you effectively don't see 6 of those frames visually, because your monitor can't display images fast enough. This can be useful to prevent an issue called "tearing", but more often than not tearing does not occur and you end up with a net loss because you are preventing the game from running as fast as it can, unless your PC can't run the game that fast to begin with.

NVIDIA Graphics Cards For NVIDIA cards, go to the "NVIDIA Control Panel" program, navigate to "manage 3D settings", and go to the "program settings" tab. Then, find and select Ty2.exe in the list of programs to customize (you may need to manually add it by browsing to the installation folder). Lastly, scroll down the list of settings until you see "Vertical sync" and ensure that the setting is set to "off". Your global setting might already be set to "off", but it never hurts to check.

AMD Graphics Cards At the time of writing this guide, all active runners have NVIDIA cards, so this guide is being thankfully provided by Queensclone, a Ty 1 runner. As none of us have an AMD card to test this, your mileage may vary if this works or not, so feel free to reach out to us in the Discord server (invite link found on the Discord tab) with questions. The first step is to open the AMD Radeon software, and click on the cog in the top right corner to get to the settings. Choose the graphics tab, and find the "wait for vertical refresh" option at the bottom of the page, and set it to "Always Off". This will change the global setting to Off for all games, but you may wish to do this for specifically Ty 2 if preferred.