# Abnormally Long MP Loading times

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**Category:** III - Report a Bug\
**Created:** [November 14, 2020, 3:39am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/abnormally-long-mp-loading-times/108111 "2020-11-14T03:39:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![arnoldstrife](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/arnoldstrife/32/38533_2.png) [@arnoldstrife](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/arnoldstrife)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 8:06am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/abnormally-long-mp-loading-times/108111/24 "2020-12-19T08:06:50Z")

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

> [@AoE3 DE Multiplayer taking forever to load](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/aoe3-de-multiplayer-taking-forever-to-load/103819/7):
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> 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.

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