Fix for long load times

[EdAstle]

My jk2 has been running fine but I just accidently ran my Safe Mode jk2.

 

It took ages to load jk2 itself (pale blue screen for 15 secs even before the main menu came up).

 

Then loading my last game seemed to lock up the PC. Well - the progress bar stopped at around 25%. After a minute of it being there I pressed Ctrl Alt Del and brought up Task Manager

 

Jk2 was only using a steady 2% CPU. I went back to jk2 and it took probably 4-5 mins to get to 100% game load.

 

To cut a long story short I found that setting seta use_ff "0" in jk2config.cfg completely fixed the problem.

 

The problem seemed to be that "Use Joystick" = no but "Force Feedback" = yes (in the Controls, Mouse/Joystick settings).

 

I do have a force feedback joystick but I got fed up with the noise of the fan and unplugged the power (its a MS Force Feedback Pro v1 - gameport). I can still use the joystick like that but without the forces.

 

But I disabled the joystick in jk2 a while back.

 

The problem is that Safe Mode enables the Force Feedback setting which it shouldn't really do.

 

I'm running the current 1.03 patch of jk2 on win2k with DX8.1b.

 

Regards,

Ed.