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"Load times" in games
Posted: Sun May 18, 2003 2:16 am
by Paindriver
What effects Load times in games. Such as in Neverwinter Nights, while trying go to another area, you have to load it and then enter it.
I would of thought my AMD 2000 system would beat my AMD 1600 in loading but it does not. Any suggestions?
T.I.A.
Posted: Sun May 18, 2003 2:27 am
by Immortal
I find that having more ram helps.... just what It hink... a faster hdd also help of course.. heh
Posted: Sun May 18, 2003 2:55 am
by Faust
many things have an impact on load times, but the primary factor is HDD bus/transfer speed since the HDD is from where the data that is being loaded is coming from.
from there it gets really complicated...... background processes taking up CPU cycles and bus controller activity, the amount of physical RAM you are running (the more RAM you have, the more that can be stored there instead of the much slower virtual memory/HDD), bus controller efficiency, etc.
the easiest way to increase load times is to run a lean system and have a fast HDD and IDE (or SCSI or whatever) controller.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 1:06 am
by kasparov707
if you nhave to have the cd in the drive when you play then create a virtual drive and load the game onto it. you no longer need the cd to play and the hdd is much faster at loading than the cd rom.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 1:52 am
by ub3r_n00b
Ram DEFINATELY helps
Battlefield 1942 - my load times with 256 megs were like a minute
now they are 10-15 seconds after adding another 256..
-Preet
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 6:44 am
by YeOldeStonecat
Originally posted by ub3r_n00b
Ram DEFINATELY helps
Battlefield 1942 - my load times with 256 megs were like a minute
now they are 10-15 seconds after adding another 256..
-Preet
Battlefield's sweet spot for RAM is 768...keep adding. Smooth as silk on a gig.
Load times for me were sliced in half when I upgraded to the WD Raptor SATA drive...with it's 10k rpm.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 3:52 pm
by koldchillah
Originally posted by YeOldeStonecat
Battlefield's sweet spot for RAM is 768...keep adding. Smooth as silk on a gig.
Load times for me were sliced in half when I upgraded to the WD Raptor SATA drive...with it's 10k rpm.
It's all about the 768 sweet spot! I'm so jealous of your Raptor SATA drive.. that must be sweet..
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 4:12 pm
by Illini25
Originally posted by YeOldeStonecat
Smooth as silk on a gig.
Im running 1024mb of ram and it is 'smooth as silk'
When im on a server and there's a map change, im usually one of the first players loaded up and in the game.
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 4:24 pm
by Mark
roger that, same deal for me
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 7:38 pm
by sito
Originally posted by ub3r_n00b
Ram DEFINATELY helps
Battlefield 1942 - my load times with 256 megs were like a minute
now they are 10-15 seconds after adding another 256..
-Preet
I went from 256 to 768 and the difference was like night and day.
I thought it was connection speed at first.
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2003 3:41 am
by YARDofSTUF
Originally posted by YeOldeStonecat
Battlefield's sweet spot for RAM is 768...keep adding. Smooth as silk on a gig.
Load times for me were sliced in half when I upgraded to the WD Raptor SATA drive...with it's 10k rpm.
i agree, i got a gig of ram and 4 raptors in raid, and bf1942 really picked up for me!