Abnormally Long MP Loading times

[arnoldstrife]

I figured out the issue,
I posted it on this similar thread,

AoE3 DE Multiplayer taking forever to load

Figured out the issue. Disable/Whitelist your antivirus for AOE3. Specifically in my case it was Malwarebytes. I was helping my friend with this issue and I didn’t have it myself. Based on the rumors I thought it was a file permission issue so I ran Nirsoft’s Process Activity View on his computer to see what files AOE3 is trying to access. There was a lot of failed options, so I decided to compare that to my own computer trying to load AOE3 (which was known good at the time). So for the first…

Hopefully this fixes the problem for everyone.