Defragment your hard drive. Repeat the defragmentation several times.
Whay does the grame take so long to load?
- Thread starter Pogo
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Defragment your hard drive. Repeat the defragmentation several times.
Sorry I didn't know you had a SSD.
Crikey, 30 secs? What a disaster!
You lot don't know you're born
When I were a lad, back in '86, it took 5 mins to load just 48Kb worth of data off a cassette tape, and failed at the last second about 33% of the time...
30 secs? Don't talk to me about 30 secs...
If I remember right, VIC20s and maybe C64s, used to save two copies onto tape, one after the other. There was a POKE to override the error if you stopped half way through loading so you could run what you'd just loaded. So you just had to pick the right place to stop...
Crikey, 30 secs? What a disaster!
You lot don't know you're born
When I were a lad, back in '86, it took 5 mins to load just 48Kb worth of data off a cassette tape, and failed at the last second about 33% of the time...
30 secs? Don't talk to me about 30 secs...
What? No SSD on your Spectrum? Damn tapes. Computer dark ages back then. Not to mention game saves...
Me too.
From clicking "PLAY" in the launcher, to seeing the Elite Dangerous splash screen takes ~1m25s, and then it takes another ~25s until the Main Menu is usable.
From clicking "SOLO", to getting to the in-cockpit menu takes another ~40s.
So that's a total of around two and a half minutes from "PLAY" until I'm in the cockpit.
I'm playing on a brand new Lenovo Y50-70 "High Performance Gaming Laptop" with the following specs :-
Windows 8.1, Core i7-4710HQ CPU (2.5-3.5GHz with 6M Cache), 16Gb DDRIIIL1600 RAM, 1Tb HD, GeForce GTX860M DDR5 4Gb GPU
There's not much I can do about upgrading this machine - does anyone have a suggestion as to whether I might be able to change the configuration, rather then the hardware) in some way to speed up loading time.
From clicking "PLAY" in the launcher, to seeing the Elite Dangerous splash screen takes ~1m25s, and then it takes another ~25s until the Main Menu is usable.
From clicking "SOLO", to getting to the in-cockpit menu takes another ~40s.
So that's a total of around two and a half minutes from "PLAY" until I'm in the cockpit.
I'm playing on a brand new Lenovo Y50-70 "High Performance Gaming Laptop" with the following specs :-
Windows 8.1, Core i7-4710HQ CPU (2.5-3.5GHz with 6M Cache), 16Gb DDRIIIL1600 RAM, 1Tb HD, GeForce GTX860M DDR5 4Gb GPU
There's not much I can do about upgrading this machine - does anyone have a suggestion as to whether I might be able to change the configuration, rather then the hardware) in some way to speed up loading time.
Crikey, 30 secs? What a disaster!
You lot don't know you're born
When I were a lad, back in '86, it took 5 mins to load just 48Kb worth of data off a cassette tape, and failed at the last second about 33% of the time...
30 secs? Don't talk to me about 30 secs...
oh boy don't I remember that.
some big games were upwards of 20 minutes as well.
then it failed on the last minute.....
takes ages for me to load aswell,
I dont understand why because machine is fast
I dont understand why because machine is fast
Ha Ha! I just found this thread. I'm impatient as hell and nothing feels fast enough for me so it just seems like it takes forever to load. If anyone loads the game faster I'd like to know why and how! I timed it several times with a digital stopwatch and it always came out exactly the same in each scenario:
Running off a really fast SSD: 27 seconds after clicking play to the Splash Screen, 57 (grand total) to the menu. 33 seconds after clicking Solo Mission to the cockpit.
Running off a pure Ram Drive (if you have it to spare, why not?): 27 seconds after clicking play to the Splash Screen, 55 (grand total) to the menu. 33 seconds after clicking Solo Mission to the cockpit.
1 to 2 seconds less time to the game menu with Cache Check disabled (the opposite of what it's supposed to do).
(Before the last patch it took 2 minutes for some reason!)
2 seconds difference between an SSD and a ram drive and equal time to reach the cockpit tells me that the game loads a lot more from server-side than it does from our actual computers. After performing these tests I feel like a doofus for complaining about the loading times.
The shaders took just over 9 seconds to fully load whether or not I overclocked my GPU BTW. My rig is an Asus M5A99FX PRO R.2, FX8350 (I never bother to OC it), MSI GTX 970 Gaming Edition (OC most of the time), 16GB GSkill Ripjaws X Series set for 2133 speed, a screaming fast Silicon Power SSD (I am so impressed with that company).
I timed it several times with a digital stopwatch and it always came out exactly the same in each scenario:Running off a really fast SSD: 27 seconds after clicking play to the Splash Screen, 57 (grand total) to the menu. 33 seconds after clicking Solo Mission to the cockpit.
Running off a pure Ram Drive (if you have it to spare, why not?): 27 seconds after clicking play to the Splash Screen, 55 (grand total) to the menu. 33 seconds after clicking Solo Mission to the cockpit.
1 to 2 seconds less time to the game menu with Cache Check disabled (the opposite of what it's supposed to do).
(Before the last patch it took 2 minutes for some reason!)
2 seconds difference between an SSD and a ram drive and equal time to reach the cockpit tells me that the game loads a lot more from server-side than it does from our actual computers. After performing these tests I feel like a doofus for complaining about the loading times.
The shaders took just over 9 seconds to fully load whether or not I overclocked my GPU BTW. My rig is an Asus M5A99FX PRO R.2, FX8350 (I never bother to OC it), MSI GTX 970 Gaming Edition (OC most of the time), 16GB GSkill Ripjaws X Series set for 2133 speed, a screaming fast Silicon Power SSD (I am so impressed with that company).
One area I would look at is your networking. I had huge problems in Beta and ended up having to upgrade my broadband to the vendors maximum package. What I found was the vendor was throttling my upstream and the throttle took it below what was required. Remember this is a p2p topology so upstream is as important and downstream. Most vendors focus on downstream, my ISP's small print made very interesting reading.
30 secs? Hah
You should have played the spectrum version, 3-4 minutes to load each time plus every 3rd time the load would fail and you'd have to start again and when it did load you'd get the lenslok screen and fail to put the right code in 2 times out of 3 and have to start again. Sometimes it would take over an hour to actually get it loaded and working.
You should have played the spectrum version, 3-4 minutes to load each time plus every 3rd time the load would fail and you'd have to start again and when it did load you'd get the lenslok screen and fail to put the right code in 2 times out of 3 and have to start again. Sometimes it would take over an hour to actually get it loaded and working.
30 secs is a long time. I have a SSD for Windows but the game is on a HDD. Even so I only get the spinning ship for ten seconds.
Once the game is running I can swap between solo and open or back again in less than ten seconds.
Once the game is running I can swap between solo and open or back again in less than ten seconds.
Firestarter, mind posting your specs and internet speed? I'm on Windows 8 x64 Pro BTW. I have the Max Package with Cox cable (actually get over 5x the advertised upload speed much of the time) This very moment my uploads are gimped because internet usually sucks on weekends here.