Is it supposed to take minutes to start up the game?

[Xicer]

Re: Is it supposed to take minutes to start up the game?

Yea, I use an image instead of the disk and it works great.

[DeathFromAbove]

Re: Is it supposed to take minutes to start up the game?

Than that may be related to your CD/DVD drive? Having an older, cheap one really makes a difference, especially when its loading up the content on the CD. I myself have a complete POS one, and it takes quite awhile of lagging before the Install icon pops up. The install process is even worse!

Nope not CD drive problem because even the programs in my HDD took forever to install.

[Sir. Shpox]

Re: Is it supposed to take minutes to start up the game?

^ Well then it's not a graphic card problem for the guy :P

[govedob]

Re: Is it supposed to take minutes to start up the game?

I have the same CPU and same ammount of ram. I load up and load a map in about 30-40 seconds.
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AMD® Athlon-64 3700+
2 Gig pc3200 ddr2 400 ram
nvidia 6800xt 256mb
17" flat panel LCD

What brand is your 17" LCD and what kind of printer do you have? LOL

[modifierLE]

Re: Is it supposed to take minutes to start up the game?

It takes me 30 seconds total to load a server.

well you got a 64 bit right? thats to be expected.

But with my old 2800 and old 4mb Cache IDE hard drive, its kinda slow going. I do have a 1GB of DDR400 but i had to slow it to 333 to keep the game from crashing, which somehow increases load times.

[]UK-C[ Mindzai]

Re: Is it supposed to take minutes to start up the game?

well you got a 64 bit right? thats to be expected.

But with my old 2800 and old 4mb Cache IDE hard drive, its kinda slow going. I do have a 1GB of DDR400 but i had to slow it to 333 to keep the game from crashing, which somehow increases load times.

What difference does having a 64 bit processor make? The game isn't optimised for 64 bit, it is written for 32bit. Makes no difference to load times. Neither does the CD as the game loads entirely from HDD, the CD is just there for checking and verification purposes. The limiting factors here are going to be your memory and your HDD cache size and speed.

[Rayzn]

Re: Is it supposed to take minutes to start up the game?

What brand is your 17" LCD and what kind of printer do you have? LOL

Viewsonic, and hp v40 printer. Why?

[modifierLE]

Re: Is it supposed to take minutes to start up the game?

What difference does having a 64 bit processor make? The game isn't optimised for 64 bit, it is written for 32bit. Makes no difference to load times. Neither does the CD as the game loads entirely from HDD, the CD is just there for checking and verification purposes. The limiting factors here are going to be your memory and your HDD cache size and speed.

i didnt say anything about a CD drive, i mentioned the fact i got an old 7 year old hard drive.....

And yes the game isnt 64 bit, but the volume of data the processor can process is increased right? more pipelines means more data flow right? (im prolly wrong, ive been outta the computer game for awhile)

[MaNiAc_619]

Re: Is it supposed to take minutes to start up the game?

hey mine takes like a min to open... not as bad as t1337 dude's but still glitchy... and sometime it doesnt open.. and i have to logout then log back in... does any one know a good no cd patch that the BF2 patch can still patch?? (too many patches.... sorry.... p.s. patch patch patch patch)

[big_sammy_b]

Re: Is it supposed to take minutes to start up the game?

it takes me a fair while for it to fire up aswell, gets there in the end tho :)

[Sir. Shpox]

Re: Is it supposed to take minutes to start up the game?

This can be a variety of things such as processes, monitor (Adjusting screen resoulution), Graphics Card/drivers, Crap Proc, could be almost anything. Try setting the resoulution of the game to your desktop resoultuion or make it 800x600, see if things improve.

[]UK-C[ Mindzai]

Re: Is it supposed to take minutes to start up the game?

i didnt say anything about a CD drive, i mentioned the fact i got an old 7 year old hard drive.....

And yes the game isnt 64 bit, but the volume of data the processor can process is increased right? more pipelines means more data flow right? (im prolly wrong, ive been outta the computer game for awhile)

Re: the CD, I know you didnt I was referring to a previous poster, and yes, you are wrong about the 64 bit proc, unless code is written for a 64 bit archetecture , having such a processor will yeild no performance increase. :)

[govedob]

Re: Is it supposed to take minutes to start up the game?

Viewsonic, and hp v40 printer. Why?

I'm just joking, I thing putting your pc specs in general is stupid, leave alone mentioning the screen.

[Domicinator]

Re: Is it supposed to take minutes to start up the game?

well you got a 64 bit right? thats to be expected.

But with my old 2800 and old 4mb Cache IDE hard drive, its kinda slow going. I do have a 1GB of DDR400 but i had to slow it to 333 to keep the game from crashing, which somehow increases load times.

Having a 64 bit processor is only going to make a difference if you're running a 64 bit OS. And I think we'll all agree that Windows XP 64 bit is pretty useless.

[Domicinator]

Re: Is it supposed to take minutes to start up the game?

That was the first thing I did. No Firewalls / Antiviruses. I have 22 background processes, including the game, without Smartclose. Processes isn't a problem.

I don't see how it helps to tell someone to turn their firewall off unless they have a hardware firewall running too. Everyone always thinks that turning off your firewall is the magic fix for everything, and it is so dangerous. These days, a computer sitting there for 20 to 30 minutes on a broadband connection unprotected is going to get hacked. No question about it. If turning off the firewall is what gets the game running for you, there is some other problem going on. If your system is that maxed out just from having your firewall turned on, then you need more ram, more proc power, more something. But please don't turn your firewall off. You're just helping spread stuff around if you do that.