I'm curious if anyone else has experienced this. When I first started this game, I didn't really have a problem with the load times or the frame rate, but at about 20 hours in, they're both becoming a real pain.
 
My load times are probably 3-4 times longer than when I started the game. I didn't even realize that the loading screen would change and display multiple messages/images at first, but now I'm seeing at least half a dozen before I get away from the loading screen. I've also on several occasions had the game hang at a black screen for 10 seconds or so after the loading screen. 
 
Then there's the frame rate. Even early on it would occasionally slow to a crawl for a few seconds and then return to full speed, but now it's happening far too often. I actually just had to stop playing because I was basically watching a slide show for about five minutes and got fed up with it. I pretty much couldn't do anything because any button inputs were taking several seconds to be reflected on the screen.
 
So, anyone else seeing this same thing? Also, I'm playing with the game installed to the hard drive right now, but I may try playing from the disc just to see if this happens to be one of those cases where playing from the hard drive actually slows down a game.

Hopefully this problem is remedied with the upcoming patch, unless it has already been dispatched.  Either way, hearing about this specific problem during the Bombcast/ Quick Look from Jeff seems to carry some weight with others' experiences of those playing the console version of the game.  No problems here on the PC side, just smooth sailing throughout the 20 hours I've put into thus far.  What I might suggest is possibly clear your system's cache?  Not really sure how you can deal with something that is seemingly the game's fault. 
 
Edit:  I guess the patch did come out, so don't mind me.  =P

FO save files keep track of literally hundreds of variables, as you progress your save will get larger, and so will the time it takes for it to properly load everything with respect to your save data. Not sure about the framerate thing though. Sounds like a memory leak. 

Sounds like that game has some serious memory leaks. Hopefully they fix this in a patch, hence why I'm waiting until these issues are fixed before buying.

I'm also curious if this might be caused by yesterday's title update. I might try clearing it out and see if the issue still exists.

The frame rate is shocking...I haven't noticed an increase in loads yet but I've only played for like 6-7 hours, and I can't stand walking through an area and completely losing all immersion in the game as it decides to run at like 5fps.

I take it this is 360, right? I haven't been able to play the PC version yet, but since no one is specifing of which platform we're talking about, I'm a bit at a loss here.

I'm playing on PC and the load times are fine for me. But I have a definite feel that the frame rate is worse than it was in F3. I seriously need to upgrade my rig but since it runs worse then the previous game it feels like they have some tech issues. 
 
Obsidian games feel like they're Italian cars, so much passion and excitement and beauty...but the wheels fall off in left turns =P

I got the opposite of what most people seem to have trouble with here. My games runs too FAST. But not consistently. Take for example the first little town. Smooth framerates and all, and sometimes the NPC's even move too fast than what I suppose they should move like, but then came the Cobb quest and WHAM... slideshow city. As soon as the last enemy died, BAM! High FPS again. 
 
I'm utterly confused...

" @Vodun:  Italian cars have better engines than this game. "

"@Chaser324 said:

"                      @Vodun:  Italian cars have better engines than this game.                                        "

Seriously, at least with an Italian car you only crash once.

                   

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I'm playing on ps3 and not noticing load times increasing but I am having an increase in freezing as I play. Of course that could just be random bad luck, but is anybody else having crazy drops in frame rate while in Freeside? Doesn't seem to be hitting me anywhere else but when I'm screwing around there the game tends to turn into a slide show.

I experienced this aswell. It helped turning the console off and on though.

Yesterday I literally fell asleep while waiting for a zone to load.  That's how bad this problem is.  A real shame too because every other aspect of the game is fucking awesome.  I can definitely see why Jeff took a star away for all of the technical problems.

I love having to sit on my ass and wait 3 minutes to load a building, and then do it all over again a few minutes later when I exit it. The load times are terrible.