Loading fine when quit game and restart, loading within game hangs at ~20%.

[Rizban]

I have seen lost of loading time posts but none I have seen addresses this particular prob.

When I load a game when I first start Jedi Outcast there is no problem. However, when I try to reload a game after playing or if I try to use quick load the progress bar hangs at ~20%. My only solution is to press esc. and exit the game and restart.

I have 384 MB of Ram and I am only running in 800 x 600 since I have a 3dfX Voodoo 3 in XP.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

--Rizban

[Xytrix]

Yeah, i have that same problem. I'm using a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP under Win98 with 256megs of ram on a 1.3GHz Celeron. The game is on Normal settings almost always, but High Quality ain't bad either

 

If i die in the game, I can restart at the beginning of the level in under 10seconds... but if i try at anytime during gameplay to hit F9 (for a Quick Load) the game will get about 1/4 of the loading bar, then stop, the hard drive activity light stops blinking too.

 

Whenever this happens, I just go to the main menu (because the load would've ended the current game anyway) and I goto the video options.

 

***************===================**************** From the video options i can change just about anything that requires me to click Apply to reset the video. I can go from Normal settings to High Quality or simply click the button til it goes from Normal back to Normal and hit Apply (it will apply faster that way).

***************===================****************

 

Once I load the game then, it works just fine, load time isn't as fast as it would be if i started the level over, but it's under 20-30seconds.

[bornskir]

It's your voodoo card. I had the same problem. I got fed up with it and bought a GeForce card. There is a "fix" though. Go to http://www.wicked3d.com and download and install the WickedGL drivers. You can download the demo version, it worked for me. It does not solve all of the voodoo related problems, but it does allow you to reload a saved game at any time.

[Rizban]

Thanks for the advice re: WickedGL. That works great!

I actually ordered a GeForce card too as I also got tired of iffy stability under XP with my 3dfx card. I hope it will solve the occasional problems I have been having with 3d games.

 

Thanks

[Triger Hapie]

The game isn't hanging, it just takes forever to load. If youw ait like 5 minutes, it will load the save game. But then again, who wants to wait 5 minutes for a save to load?

[Darkrobe]

I downloaded the WickedGL drivers but It didn't help me much because the program says it doesn't support JKII. Could you people tell me how you dealt with this problem.