[T:V] Load Times

SonGohan
03-31-2003, 15:26
For the love of all that is holy... please, PLEASE try to avoid the Loading times from T2.

kesh
03-31-2003, 18:38
uhhh, you can't avoid loading times...it sort of takes time to unpack a map and other static objects...

addps4cat
03-31-2003, 19:24
maybe leave them unpacked? I don't really know anything about maps, but could you like have them precompiled to make it load faster?

idolminds
03-31-2003, 19:34
Real-time lighting would be better than relighting the map every time it loads....so lets hope they add that. Or at least save the lighting information, its not like we have really dynamic maps that change round to round.

Thrax Panda
04-01-2003, 19:02
Your TV has long load times?

Vang
04-01-2003, 19:37
He fell for your Vengeance joke, what a tard :|

SonGohan
04-26-2003, 15:54
Hizowned.

It -was- T:V.

Boomshakalaka.

Harlequin_Jester
04-26-2003, 16:04
The load time for T2 maps is at most, 30 seconds. Even though my ADD may be milder than most, I'm not going to cry over 30 seconds.

Sir Lucius
04-26-2003, 16:46
You should just build in a mini soldat type 2d tribes game to play while you're wating for a map to load or while you're on gen D or something. All the best console games have mini games -- DO it :P

Diotoir
04-26-2003, 21:53
You should just build in a mini soldat type 2d tribes game to play while you're wating for a map to load or while you're on gen D or something. All the best console games have mini games -- DO it :P
:bump: ^^

cyclonite
04-26-2003, 23:37
I have to admit that I'm a huge fan of the lightning fast Tribes 1 load times!
T2 was much too long for me, maybe for computers these days its not so much a problem, but considering my computer was pretty much top end when I got it and Tribes 2 came out a month or so after the load times were very long.
Its not like I won't buy the game if it has long load times, but it would be a nice luxury I tells ya.

Father Ruckus
04-26-2003, 23:40
UT2k3 and Raven Shield both have real quick load times on my PC, since T:V is using the same tech, i hope it has the same Load :)

arcadus
04-27-2003, 02:39
Your TV has long load times?
:lol:

Yogi
04-27-2003, 12:20
The problem is getting the amount of data off the hard drive and into memory. Hard drives are slow as **** relative to everything else in the computer.

Add in CRC checking and the like and it can take a bit.

NAT Mav
04-30-2003, 01:27
As I have found going from 128MB to 392MB of RAM, more RAM = faster load times.

Yogi
04-30-2003, 13:41
As I have found going from 128MB to 392MB of RAM, more RAM = faster load times.

This is true too. Sometimes when you are loading a massive amount of data, it gets read from disk into RAM, then something you loaded earlier had to get paged to disk in order to make room for more data. More RAM = less disk access = more speed.

Shinigami
04-30-2003, 18:32
If people didn't know that already they shouldn't be complaining. Loading times are gonna be "long" with crc checking, but you wanna get rid of that...?

R@ND0M
04-30-2003, 18:56
Yes.

CRC Checks are possibly the easiest method of security to crack.