click join server - go take nap

[hanleyster]

Is it just me, or is the loading time rediculously long on this damn game.

What on earth takes so long to join a game?! Do you have the same grievences?!:yay:

[jesus]

yeah bf2 has extremely long loading times. It's not too bad with 3gb of ram, but it always stops at 62% for a few seconds. the load times are longer than any of my other games (crysis, bioshock, world in conflict, UT3)

[GHOST_AirAceDavid]

Yeah, mine hangs around at 62% for a while, do you run it on high res and high graphics?

[jesus]

Yeah, mine hangs around at 62% for a while, do you run it on high res and high graphics?

Yes, but if I run it on low graphics, it doesn't stop at 62% at all.

It's weird, though, because most of the time it'll stop at 62%, but on some occasions, it just skips it. I'm still one of the very first people on the server even when it stops at 62%. I think the people who are in first (usually) have computers like mine or better, but play on all low settings.

[DOGGiE52]

Thank you. Thank you so much. I'm glad someone had the guts to say that. PR people - go and have fun in the PR section of the forums.

And speaking of the long loading times: well BF2 has probably the biggest maps with the most detail than many other games, and the maps have to be fully loaded from the beginning, as a little "LOADING..." message in a jet for example would be rather irritating.

[Redink]

Is it just me, or is the loading time rediculously long on this damn game.

What on earth takes so long to join a game?! Do you have the same grievences?!:yay:

I have no problems at all... I think that usually means it's time for an update or a new computer XD

[jesus]

I have no problems at all... I think that usually means it's time for an update or a new computer XD

Is bf2 the only game you play? Because even if you have 4gb of ram, quad core processor, 8800 and a 10k rpm drive, BF2's load times will still be much longer than "next-gen" games (crysis, bioshock, UT3, etc)

[Skaggy]

Its weird, PR load time is well quicker than vanilla

That's because the "Verifying Client Data" in PR is almost non-existent. The actual maps take around the same amount of time to load...

[AlexIsUber]

Is it just me, or is the loading time rediculously long on this damn game.

What on earth takes so long to join a game?! Do you have the same grievences?!:yay:

thats what they used to say, loads in like 20 seconds for me, and i only have 2 GB of ram if that matters + all high settings.

when the game came out it was long because 6800Gt was best thing you could get and everyone had **** rigs.

[ham_411]

the amount of RAM you have strongly affects this. i used to play with 1GB, then i upgraded to 3GB and it makes a huge difference. where i used to be in the last half of people to join during a map swap, im always in the first few.
and as for it stopping at 62%, i only ever get this when my system settings have been changed. so if the server swaps from a night to day map or when i have updated my graphics card driver.

[Alex6714]

4GB of Ram and fine loading times here. Was great on 2 in xp as well. Mot of the time I was the or one of the first in, and that with almost all high graphics.

[WNx Makka99]

my load times are around 40 seconds.

But i do know what your talking about, on my old computer it would take around 4 minutes lol.

[SyDuS]

the hard drive speed/cache is the biggest improvement to loading times, especially verifying. ram helps with the starting lag, intermittent lag here and there. i usually go from 7-16-89-100% in about 3 to 5 seconds, then verify a max of 5 seconds for a total of a max 10 seconds. and my PC isn't quite top of the line. if its the first map i load after starting up bf2 add maybe 3-4 seconds onto that. seriously if your still taking 2 minutes or more to load a 2.5 year old game its time to get a new PC.

[rez.]

I have a sh!t PC -- AMD 64 3000+ , X800 GTO, 1GB value RAM -- It always takes a while to load and then then 2 minute wait for "Verifying Client Data". But i recently downloaded Diskeeper Lite Defrag Utility and after running this several times I found that my "Client Data" wait times reduced considerably .... only waiting 10-15 secs now.
Give it a try cos Windows Defrag Utility is a POS.

[SyDuS]

I have a sh!t PC -- AMD 64 3000+ , X800 GTO, 1GB value RAM -- It always takes a while to load and then then 2 minute wait for "Verifying Client Data". But i recently downloaded Diskeeper Lite Defrag Utility and after running this several times I found that my "Client Data" wait times reduced considerably .... only waiting 10-15 secs now.
Give it a try cos Windows Defrag Utility is a POS.

i run diskeeper 10 pro premier every day while I am at work, it runs for about 2 hours cleaning the $hit outta my pc, that definately helps with the verify stage while it searches over your hardrive. also my pc is squeaky clean because of it.