Has anyone done more of a deep dive into load times in IS2? Possibly by platform / emu as well? The first thing I noticed is that it seems like the load times are reduced if I face the same maps in a previous run without resetting the emu. I'm guessing this has something to do with maps staying loaded in memory. The other thing is how the emu / hardware pairing can give reduced load times. Looking over my 29M BSL run, it took ~12s from starting the BSL stage to the DP bar beginning to move. I was using LDplayer and a 9900k at the time. In spiefie's recent upload, this took about 7.5s (presumably he had attempted BSL previously in the same emu session). In my most recent run I had a 6s load time for the same period, and I had done a warmup run before so I imagine the maps were loaded into memory already. Using 7950x and Google Emu now.

So TLDR, has anyone noticed faster load times of the same map across different runs? Which emus feel the fastest for AK?

Just compared the load times from a run on bluestacks and a run on LDplayer. Bluestacks took about 11-12 seconds, LDplayer took 7-8 seconds. both runs were after BSL had already been encountered in the same session, and I haven't really tested seperately whether that memory caching theory could be thing. Either way, with my hardware, LDPlayer loads quite a bit faster than Bluestacks, would need a larger sample size to see if its consistent amongst users.

Might try testing load times on a first encounter of a session, and a subsequent one, will reply again if I do.