If you connect to the server for the first time, you'll see Ain files of the map are downloaded. These files are used for NPC navigation, except Empires doesn't have NPC's. These files freeze the loading screen for a long time, for me it timed me out when it downloaded the Urban Chaos Ain file. I would suggest disabling Ain files being downloaded, if possible.
It just shows the last thing it did. It would still take as long but not say it was downloading the graphs.
nah it's not that it's actually downloading them for ages, it's just that once it has downloaded them then it starts loading all the game, and that bit takes forever. however, when loading all the game it displays on the screen the last thing it was doing.
Its because during connect, Empires stops responding. i run task manager on monitor 2 at all time. Empires, without fail, stops responding at the end of downloads.
Yeah, either its taking ages (and I mean, Gmod10 loading x10 AGES), or its becoming unresponsive every time I try to connect now too.
I have the same problem also. In 1.071 I would be one of the first ones to load regardless of server. In this version, I m stuck on the "Downloading maps/graphs/Emp_mapnamehere.ain" for like 5mins +.
same problem here. Almost every time it loads it hangs the first time, if I am able to press the cancel button (when its sending client info) I can retry the connection and it will load in 20 seconds (timed it), but when it hangs, it hangs for atleast a few mins, infact it took so long ive never bothered to wait it out, I even went afk to make myself the greatest desert ever and came back to see I was still stuck at at sending client info. Again, first time loading hangs, cancelling it and retrying afterwards will get me ingame in 20 seconds. Its the most annoying when its a map change, it won't go to sending client info as fast, where it hangs after loading the graphs, the cancel button will not work and I have to wait out 2 minutes or so untill I'm able to cancel it, I don't receive my $200 either
