HD seems to be under torture untill 10% precaching

CicoCico Join Date: 2005-01-07 Member: 33169Members, Reinforced - Supporter
in Technical Support
Since 249 beta i have this problem. Precaching takes a lot more time to complete and until 10% it goes really slow and with that horrible sound of "100% working" coming out from the HD.
I used to hear a similar noise when i joined the hbz server and they had the full consistency check mod, some time ago.

that's the log
Date: 06/13/13
Time: 13:36:25
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Build 249
Steam initialized
Render Device: ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series (8.17.10.1172)
Sound Device: Altoparlanti (SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio) 5.1
Record Device: Microfono (SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio)
Mounting mod from C:/Users/Cico/AppData/Roaming/Natural Selection 2/Workshop/m5f1f2e7_1364484297/
Mounting mod from C:/Users/Cico/AppData/Roaming/Natural Selection 2/Workshop/m619984c_1350223054/
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Main Menu Initialized at Version: 249
Steam Id: 
Queuing download of 'Balance Test'
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Mod 'Balance Test' installed
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Connecting to server 46.252.149.43:26015
Mounting mod from C:/Users/Cico/AppData/Roaming/Natural Selection 2/Workshop/m5f1f2e7_1364484297/
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Main Menu Initialized at Version: 249
Steam Id: 
Connecting to server 91.236.254.12:27017
Downloading mods
Queuing download of 'NS2Stats'
Starting download of 'NS2Stats'
Mod 'NS2Stats' installed
Finished downloading and installing mods
Error: Mod Gorge Heart Heal Spray failed consistency checking and will be disabled ('cinematics/alien/gorge/healthspray.cinematic' failed)
Mounting mod from C:/Users/Cico/AppData/Roaming/Natural Selection 2/Workshop/m5fd7a38_1371098245/
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Server is using NS2stats, you can find your stats at www.ns2stats.org.
Loading 'maps/ns2_refinery.level'
Error: Couldn't open file 'models/cinematics/exoreveal/page_1_panels_1-11 - onosemerges/camera7.model'
Building pathing mesh for level maps/ns2_refinery.level
Finished loading 'maps/ns2_refinery.level'
Error: Couldn't open file ''
Error: Couldn't open file ''
Chat All - NS2Stats: Bienvenue chez NS2-Fr.com ! Notre Teamspeak ns2-fr.com:9987
Chat All - NS2Stats: You can use 'stats' in console for commands and help.
Error: Attempted to load remote options from a file that does not exist.


but during the first 10% of precache nothing shows up.
only later the 2 " Error: Couldn't open file '' " errors
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Comments

  • ezekelezekel Join Date: 2012-11-29 Member: 173589Members, NS2 Map Tester
    Well I never noticed anything like that, but I can tell you that during 248 almost every time I'd join a server after a mod updated or something, it would precache to 10% very slowly (and sometimes made my hard drive sound like it was suffering) then it would just fly up to 100% from that point on
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  • Ghosthree3Ghosthree3 Join Date: 2010-02-13 Member: 70557Members, Reinforced - Supporter
    Takes me anywhere between 3 and 6 minutes to precache, really depends on how lucky I am.
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  • HusarHusar Join Date: 2012-11-11 Member: 169523Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    Oh wow, I must be lucky. Had never ever had such problems and mostly smooth frame rates also before 249. Loads maps in like under 30 seconds - always (well, except compiling updated shaders)! Seems I picked the right components while building my rig. My brother having the nearly same system haven't had problems with NS2 either. Interesting.
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  • ScardyBobScardyBob ScardyBob Join Date: 2009-11-25 Member: 69528Forum Admins, Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
    The first precaching after a new build can take quite a while, but it should go much faster for each subsequent one. I'm guessing you have a HDD. Mind posting what size/brand/model and how long you've been using it?
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  • CicoCico Join Date: 2005-01-07 Member: 33169Members, Reinforced - Supporter
    edited June 2013
    hdd is fine, it's a caviar black. OS is on the same hdd, on a different partition.
    This "problem" came out with 249 beta and 249 official.
    Only the first time i run the game. next maps in the same session load just fine and i'm always one of the first to join the server.


    Just to repeat. the problem is not that it take a while to load.. it's ok (but it was faster 2/3 builds ago). The problem is the noise of the hdd that's is struggeling in doing something that didn't do before, and I think it's not too safe to keep it working like this every day, more times a day.
    (And only happens in that 10% of the precaching. in all other usage the hdd is just fine. it's definitely not the hdd having problem.)
    Oh and some other guys reported this problem in the 249 beta topic
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  • MiniH0wieMiniH0wie Join Date: 2007-11-25 Member: 63013Members
    Have this exact issue as well but it's been happening for at least the last 3 builds, maybe more.

    HDD is a WD 1600HLFS, only about a yr old.
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  • ezekelezekel Join Date: 2012-11-29 Member: 173589Members, NS2 Map Tester
    I'm on a western digital caviar blue 7,200 rpm
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