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4W4K3 · 11-20-2005, 06:08 AM

A bogged down harddrive can cause very slow loading. Try deleting excess files, maybe run CCleaner. A defrag really helps as well. Close background services that aren't necessary and try again...you should notice a difference unless none of the previous were problems before.

kobaj · 11-20-2005, 06:39 AM

Yes, those will help alot with loading times, with the accual reason of loading google gives us,

In telecommunication, the term loading means the insertion of impedance into a circuit to change the characteristics of the circuit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading

And

The total amount of material entering a system from all sources.
http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/sfep/...e/soegloss.htm

Well those are the only two that I thought fit. So Im getting is taking all the files (light, map, sounds, ect) and putting it in ram for easy access once it is required....Thats a hell of a lot of files, but if it makes the game better.

Well I think Im starting to get it. Thanks. Im glad you guys where here to help with such a random question. Starts thinking of another....

vortmax · 11-20-2005, 07:04 AM

you seriously need more ram. Windows alone is taking up a lot of that. A lot of your load time is going to be drive seek time being eaten by the paging file swap. Basicly you're running out of ram, so unused bacgound stuff (like a lot of windows processes) are being written to the disk to clear ram. You can only read or write from an ATA drive at one time, so you have to trade off between reading game data and writing to the paging file. If your CD rom drive is on the same cable, then you're alternating between those 3 things.

Xycron · 11-20-2005, 07:10 AM

dont forget defragging...

I als think you have missed alot of the main points, Buffing, many game's will buffer the graphic's onto the RAM and VRAM during the loading screen so there is no lag during gameplay. Its mainly loading from the hardrive most of the time as you can see from the red light that is on most peopl's cases.

maroon1 · 11-20-2005, 02:35 PM

also if u add extra 512MB RAM to ur system, u will see some improvement for loading time

[-0MEGA-] · 11-20-2005, 02:52 PM

When it says "loading", its copying the game files to your memory from either a hard drive or cd drive.

Jon Boy · 11-20-2005, 08:33 PM

Doesnt the new "Tony Hawk" game have no loading screen. Does that mean that too will be very glitchy, or is it just odd?. Or have I got the totaly wrong end of the stick here.

hypojam · 11-20-2005, 09:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jon Boy

Doesnt the new "Tony Hawk" game have no loading screen. Does that mean that too will be very glitchy, or is it just odd?. Or have I got the totaly wrong end of the stick here.

Look at GTA San Andreas, Thats doesnt have loading screens either but that runs very nice

**Archangel** · 11-21-2005, 08:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jon Boy

Doesnt the new "Tony Hawk" game have no loading screen. Does that mean that too will be very glitchy, or is it just odd?. Or have I got the totaly wrong end of the stick here.

as far as i know, the game loads the new data all the time. and, ofcourse the loading before you can start to play will be a bit longer

11-20-2005, 06:08 AM	#11 (permalink)
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kobaj Diamond Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,236	Yes, those will help alot with loading times, with the accual reason of loading google gives us, In telecommunication, the term loading means the insertion of impedance into a circuit to change the characteristics of the circuit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading And The total amount of material entering a system from all sources. http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/sfep/...e/soegloss.htm Well those are the only two that I thought fit. So Im getting is taking all the files (light, map, sounds, ect) and putting it in ram for easy access once it is required....Thats a hell of a lot of files, but if it makes the game better. Well I think Im starting to get it. Thanks. Im glad you guys where here to help with such a random question. Starts thinking of another.... __________________ My site My sigThanks Kornowski for ava and sig. Winner of photo competition: Bokeh.

11-20-2005, 07:04 AM	#13 (permalink)
vortmax Platinum Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Age: 26 Posts: 619	you seriously need more ram. Windows alone is taking up a lot of that. A lot of your load time is going to be drive seek time being eaten by the paging file swap. Basicly you're running out of ram, so unused bacgound stuff (like a lot of windows processes) are being written to the disk to clear ram. You can only read or write from an ATA drive at one time, so you have to trade off between reading game data and writing to the paging file. If your CD rom drive is on the same cable, then you're alternating between those 3 things. __________________ Asus A7N8x delux Nforce 2 AMD Athlon 2800+ (barton core) 512 meg Corsair DDR 400 Gainward G-force FX 5200 Dell 6000i Intel Pentium M 725 (1.60 GHz/2MB Cache/400MHz FSB) ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300 64MB HyperMemory 1 gig DDR2 PC2-3200 Music server: AMD K6 500 MHz 128 Meg RAM Onkyo HT-R520 Reciever 6.1 DTS ES & Dolby Digital EX

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11-20-2005, 07:10 AM	#14 (permalink)
Xycron banned Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 2,099	dont forget defragging... I als think you have missed alot of the main points, Buffing, many game's will buffer the graphic's onto the RAM and VRAM during the loading screen so there is no lag during gameplay. Its mainly loading from the hardrive most of the time as you can see from the red light that is on most peopl's cases.

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