3dmike Posted October 4, 2001 Share Posted October 4, 2001 Can anyone help? When I used to play XWA on a P2 300 it took about 20 seconds to load a mission. i.e to get from pressing "enter hangar" to arriving in the cockpit, giving me just enough time to review the mission briefing. My brand new hotrod machine with a 52 speed CD drive, 1 gig of DDRAM a 1.8 Gig CPU etc..... takes around five minutes to load a mission! What's going on? I know the drive is fine as it benchmarks up to its full speed and transfer rate. The pc is fast as hell at everything else but just takes too long to load XWA levels. Help me if you can. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Vagrant Posted October 5, 2001 Share Posted October 5, 2001 I had the same problem..........except mine would never load.................to fix it make a backup of the game...........it should read the burned cd just fine.............worked for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted October 5, 2001 Share Posted October 5, 2001 Why do you need such an obscene amount of RAM? Anyway, post more about your system - exact hardware and software specs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dmike Posted October 5, 2001 Author Share Posted October 5, 2001 My hardware spec is: AMD TBird 1.4 watercooled & stable at 1.8Ghz 1 Gb Micron SDRAM Abit K266 motherboard Creative Geforce2 GTS 32Mb DDR 2*30Gb Western digital 7200rpm ATA100 HDDs (RAID 0) SB Live! 5.1 Sony 40Speed CDROM Toshiba 52*CDROM IOmega ZipCD Etc..... Running win ME. The "Obscene" amount of RAM is used for rendering 3D studio scenes and inimations. It's the RAM that really speeds up rendering times. But why oh why does it take ages to load a mission? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Darth Massacator Posted October 6, 2001 Share Posted October 6, 2001 How much virtual memory are you allocating? Or are you letting windows manage it. Also, and I hate saying it 'cuz you kinda sound like you know a bit about pc's, are you religiously defragging your h/d? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dmike Posted October 8, 2001 Author Share Posted October 8, 2001 My virtual memory is set to half my RAM, i.e 512Mb. This is a fixed size file which rarely gets used, Adding "Conservative swapfile usage=1" to the win.ini file stops windows using the swapfile until ALL RAM has been used, because as we know windows memory management sucks. I of course defrag my RAID array every couple of days, or when I've installed/deleted a big prog. I guess it's just one of them weird computer mysteries!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiteFox Posted October 11, 2001 Share Posted October 11, 2001 Okay, virtual memory should always be set higher than your RAM. Typically it should be about 2x to 4x the amount of RAM you have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dmike Posted October 14, 2001 Author Share Posted October 14, 2001 So yoy really think I should have a paging file of 1Gb or more? I dont think so as windows memory management will actually slow down with any swap file above 768Mb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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