Loadtimes.

I've got a pretty good computer.
Dualcore Intel 3,2GHz and 1500mb ram. nVidia 7800 graphics card.

I can load a game of Halflife 2 or Battlefield 2 in about 5-15 seconds.

But it takes me literally 7 minutes to load an Empires map for the first map load after I start up the program.

What's going on???

 

yea, the load times are a bit of a joke when joining a server.

Although I do know they are attempting to improve it by caching the sound files or something but they don't know how much of an improvement it'll make.

Time will tell I guess.

 

That's odd, my computer is only a step above garbage, and the first server I join, I'll connect in a couple minutes, which is still pretty high I use medium settings btw.

 

normally takes 2-5 mins joinning server but once ur in and changes maps takes alot quicker

 

Yeah, it's very slow map changing for me too. AMD 2800 XP with a GeForce 6600 and a gig RAM.

 

So is it any faster with the sound cacheing stuff in 1.05?

 

The loading times are shorts for me... 30 seconds! :D

 

It does seem to have improved the load times for me too. Its now down from about 2 mins to under 1.

 

Well back in the first couple of patches removing the pp_bloom before loading a map generally cut my initial map loading times from 2 minutes + to around 45 seconds.

Here is my current autoexec.cfg file:

rate 30000
pp_bloom 0
mat_bloom 0

mat_specular 0
mat_picmip 1

notice that pp_bloom 0 turns off the bloom while the game is loading. Once the map is loaded you can always turn it back on by typing pp_bloom 1 into your console.

 

taking a long time to load up ?

strange , its weird how different computers take different times to get on a game
i'v got a fairly good computer , and it usally takes 2-3 minits to load up - so i'm usally one of the first people to spawn. great for getting in the comm first , but i usally don't bother - just let someone els have ppl demanding things.

but - i live in the north of scotland ( uk ) !!!!!!!!!!
and there are NO servers it europe , or at least none that ppl play on
so what the hecks going on ?????????:confused: :confused:

 

This is a funny post... There is a few people including myself that have very fasy load times i am in the game in less that 30 seconds if that... could it be because of my 2 rapters on raid 0 configuration? or running 64 bit os? dont thing 64bit os has anything to do with it but its a shot... I am thinking the faster hard drivers might have a part...??