Loading Screen

testoasa11

Can you do something with the loading screen ?
It takes to much to start a game every game...like 5-10 mins.
I just bought this game 3 days ago and we have this crap.
I would enjoy more this game if you fix this crap !

SamusDroid

Can you post your specs please

testoasa11

Here it is !
And my video cars is Sapphire Radeon R7 250X 1GB DDR5 128-bit.

SamusDroid

Your specs aren't that bad, but you will probably want to turn your graphics options down to improve late game performance. To decrease loading times it is suggested that you get an SSD as they drastically decrease load times.

testoasa11

Are you kidding me ? A SSD ?
For example Call of Duty Advance Warfare is loading on my PC in 5-10 secons on High...
I think UnknownWorlds can work to optimize this.

testoasa11

Are you kidding me ? A SSD ?
For example Call of Duty Advance Warfare is loading on my PC in 5-10 secons on High...
I think UnknownWorlds can work to optimize this.

SamusDroid

Yes, a SSD. Your load times will go from 5 minutes down to around 20-30 seconds. NS2 is built on a custom engine made by a small company, with it being the first game made on the engine. CoD is made by a AAA company with lots of money, resources, and optimizations over many years.
The community development team is working on optimizing the game.

Nordic

You could try defragmenting your had. Maybe your AV is interfering.

SamusDroid

Other known causes of slow load times are anti virus. You can also try closing any background programs when running ns2 as well.

ATF

SSDs are expensive, for the average romanian.

testoasa11

How did you know im from Romania ?
And yes ! SSD are to expsive for me.

SamusDroid

testoasa11 wrote: »

How did you know im from Romania ?
And yes ! SSD are to expsive for me.

It says so under your name

Yojimbo

You could buy another harddrive and stick it in RAID 0 or you can buy 4 ssd's then put them in RAID 0 or you can buy 4 sdd's put them in RAID 0 then create RAMDISK and hardlink your NS2 cache files then put your RAMDISK on your 4 ssd raid 0




I was bored one day

IronHorse

It does honestly sound like an issue if it is _truly_ taking you 10 minutes to load a map every time..

Download Defraggler (its free) and check the fragmentation levels of your HD
Ensure *Temporarily and just for testing load times* that you have no Anti virus or anti malware active
Close all background programs (if you need help with how to do this let us know)
Actually time with a stop watch your loading times after you reset your PC and report back here.

testoasa11

It takes now 5 minutes EVERY GAME.
It's still annoyng...please don't tell me "You need a SSD for a good loading".
This is pisses me off !

Obraxis

Please run techsupport.exe in your NS2 dir, and post it up in this thread.

GhoulofGSG9

Just digged this all thread up which might be useful: http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/135437/ns2-loading-time-is-still-pretty-long-even-after-268

Also try to set the resource loading in the options as low as possible

testoasa11

Wait

testoasa11

Here it is.

GhoulofGSG9

Wow your hdd really is pretty slow, did you already tried to defrag it? Otherwise in your case i guess only a new modern HDD (yours has only 8MB Cache o.O) will help

testoasa11

Yeah, buy a new Harddrive for 1 game when bigger and better games load much faster on my current harddrive, no thanks

GhoulofGSG9

testoasa11 wrote: »

Yeah, buy a new Harddrive for 1 game when bigger and better games load much faster on my current harddrive, no thanks

In your case size doesn't matter but the amount of single files that need to be loaded from the HDD, we are talking about around 14k files for ns2. Now your drive has a avg seek time of 9ms. => Your hdd is alone 126 secs busy searching for the needed files ... .

So you may ask now why does ns2 take so long compared to AAA-titles: Easy answer, AAA-games do pack their files into file archives so the hdd "wastes" much less time searching.

Just try the tips i gave in my first post, there is nothing else which could help you beside getting a faster HDD ( Those are not that expensive and i'm surprised someone can survive with 256 GB only these days ).

IronHorse

You keep avoiding what has been asked and suggested : have you tried checking the fragmentation of your slow drive?

testoasa11

I already defragamented and it takes 5 minutes for loading...

Obraxis

Looking at the specs, it's a combination of the following:

1) Your CPU is a Pentium, which means it's L2 Cache is only 0.5MB per core. This is tiny, this class of Pentium CPU is not designed for heavy gaming as per Intel specs (It's not all about CPU Frequency).

2) Your HDD is the WDC WD2500JS-55MHB0 ATA Device. This is a 250GB Mechanical drive, which you have partitioned into 2 parts, a 60GB Partition, and a 181GB Partition.
This is causing you significant slow downs, most likely due to the fact your HDD Header (needle) is having to scour the WIndows partition on 'C', as well as the Steam Library on your 'D' Parition at the same time, causing significant slow down.

You don't need an SSD (though it would help). You need an actual dedicated HDD for both your WIndows and 'Data' Partitions. Data was gleamed from:

Drive: C:
Free Space: 3.5 GB
Total Space: 56.9 GB
File System: NTFS
Model: WDC WD2500JS-55MHB0 ATA Device

Drive:
Free Space: 58.3 GB
Total Space: 181.2 GB
File System: NTFS
Model: WDC WD2500JS-55MHB0 ATA Device


My suggestion would be first buy another Harddrive, a modern one of about 1TB (they are cheap as hell right now). SSDs have also fallen in price, but that's your call. Your PC Setup is actually detrimental to most games.

testoasa11

And if buy a SSHD ?
My PC Setup is acctualy decent for me.
I don't have any claims in games.
Just to work on Medium graphics and that's fine for me.

IronHorse

Apparently it's not if you made this thread
Changing how you partitioned your HD or the speed of your HD will not influence whether you can run it on high or medium settings - it only effects the reason why you made this thread, the speed of Loading.

testoasa11

Okay I will save the link with this thread.
I will be in touch when i gate the HDD