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I think...;) Anyway, the problem is definately NOT RAM. My computer here at home has 128MB RAM, a 32MB GeForce 256 (1st gen card) and 60GB Western Digital 7200RPM. It obviously isn't the RAM because my LONGEST quick load was 9 seconds.:) I'm reading about some people not having problems and some people are. On my other computer with the same RAM the load times are 4+ minutes. It's a faster machine, but why is the load time longer? INTEL PENTIUM. I think AMD has something that the Pentium doesn't. My computer here is 750 DURON. My other machine has a 900Mhz P3.

 

Get an AMD, not RAM. Problem solved. :)

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no such luck. i'm getting multi-minute load times with the following system:

 

Athlon 1.4ghz

1024 PC2100 ram

100gb Western Digital 7200rpm 8mb cache hard drive (am I wrong in calling this the fastest ATA hard drive on the market?)

ATi Radeon 8500 Retail

 

When running *fastest* mode, load times are about forty seconds. Still too long!

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I haven't looked into this problem too much, but are these loading times when you load a save just after loading JK2, or is it all the time ? Usually, when starting JK2, it takes 1:04 to load all the models, textures, etc. and whatever map I choose. After that, it takes maybe 4 seconds to load the same level and about 10 to load the next or new one.

 

I'm running

 

1.3 GHz Athlon

512 MB PC133 SDRAM

Geforce 4 Ti4600

WinME

40 GB Western Digital HD (7200 rpm) not sure about other stats on the HD

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am I wrong in calling this the fastest ATA hard drive on the market?)

yeah, you can call it that. It may not win EVERY IDE harddisk benchmark but enough of them to at least share the title as the fastest IDE hard drive available today.

 

The fact that you're not getting fast load times with your system is friggin nuts. I've got a 1.2G Tbird system, 512MB DDR, and an IBM 60GXP 7200 rpm HDD and I get good load times: 40 cold and 10 warm. You should, hopefully, get at least that fast!

 

If a patch ever comes out this has got to be the first thing it addresses.

 

BTW, I'm assuming that anyone who's getting long load times is NOT running at very high detail. With a 64MB video card and 512MB of RAM with AGP Aperture set to 128, I was getting glitching and texture dropouts!

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I don't think RAM has anything to do with the load times, Raven didn't even realize this and they made the game.:p:rolleyes: My machine has 128MB RAM and it's got better load times than some machines with over 512, so it clearly isn't the RAM. Another thing I noticed when loading a game (on my machine that takes 4 minutes) is that after it stops a 1/4, there is NO hard drive activity at all, which seems to mean that nothing is happening. It is clearly sloppy code.

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From what i've seen, and heard from other posters, is that the loading gets to 25% approx and then stops.. There is no, or relatively no, activity going on. Searching for internet connection? Missing file? Seems like its timing out and finishing after awhile..

 

Something to look into for a patch, cause it really not looking like its a system problem from the variety of systems reporting.

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you can never have enough RAM

 

I had 256k trying to play Max Payne (requirement was only 128) on a 1.5 ghz P4, and it crashed a lot, even on medium settings... I went up just a bit to 384k RAM and I could run it all on high settings..... even a little RAM increase can make a huge difference.

With the load times, I agree with some of you it shouldn't matter that much, but in general, RAM is good.

 

CPU and especially hard drive are probably more of a factor... get ata-100 drive (but MB must have ata-100 ability)

 

and there is a huge difference between high and very high textures for the load times as Raven stated

 

by the way, how do I see my frames per second (FPS), something with the console?

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Currently, the fastes IDE hard drive on the market are the ones with ATA133. They were just released a few months ago along with the new motherboards. It could be that the pipeline for the onboard cache may be bigger. I mean, nVidia based boards are more capable of sending information to RAM and retrieving them about 4x (could be 8x, can't remember) faster than VIA boards which are 2x faster than Intel based boards. This has to do with the new architecture of the motherboards so load times MAY be influenced by the chipset of the motherboaod. Can those with VIA, Intel, and nVidia motherboard chipsets please post their load times along with the amount and type (i.e. speed) of the RAM? My hypothesis is that the nVidia based boards will load faster than VIA which will be faster than Intel given that CPU, amount of RAM, RAM speed, and hard disk speed are the same or similar. Personally, I have a VIA chipset and will probably stick with the VIA chipset because they are currently faster than the nVidia ones in terms of transfering information from PCI -> CPU and harddisk -> CPU via Northbridge and Southbridge chipsets. nVidia is really only faster in the RAM/Memory transfer department. At least for now.

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Keep in mind that the new ATA133 IDE bus is another case of unrealized potential. Don't go out and buy one thinking it's going to greatly improve your drive throughput - even on a ATA133 motherboard. But the newer, more modern mechanics of the drive may be vastly superior than the drive you're using now.

 

Jasho, those times are excellent. I have almost an identical system except that I'm using a VIA KT266-chipset board with 512MB of DDR memory. I get ~40sec (cold) and ~10sec(warm).

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I dunno about that.. I'm getting about an average load time of 20-40 secs..

 

my specs:

AMD AthlonXP 2100+ on an Asus A7V333

512mb DDR PC2700

20.5GB WD 7200RPM

MSI GeForce 3 Ti 200 128DDR

Win2k Pro

 

I was kinda wondering about the lag myself.....

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