please help guys 20 miniute laoding time.

Hey guys, so i bought the boxed dvd version at best buy came home and installed it and soon found out that it takes roughly 20 minutes to just load any mission this cant be normal. My specs should kill this game 4870x2 amd phenom 955 3.8ghz quad core oc 3gb corssair 1336 mhz ddr2 500gb wsd 7200rpm so any ideas this is unbearable :(

ps. all patches installed.

Please read this sticky: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=44466

Also, prepare a DxDiag file and attach it here and it'll be easier to spot anything that might be causing the issue.

EDIT

Here's two links to threads on the same subject, if you are lucky they might contain a solution for you:

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=40601&highlight=loading+time

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=41547&highlight=loading+time

how can i post all of it its way of 22k characters

Below the quick reply box you have a "go advanced" thing. Go in there. Then click the paperclip and upload the text file as an attachement.

thanks man!

DxDiag.txt

One of the threads I linked talks about an application named "cacheman". It seems it did solve a similar issue for another individual, but not for everyone. Worth a look though. You could also investigate your cache settings, since that also came up in one of those threads.

On your DxDiag it looks like you have two SCSI drives. Are those actually SCSI or are they SATA? (Since SATA sometimes ends up showing as SCSI.) There might be a driver issue causing issues when DCS wants to read files necessary to start up the simulation.

ok ill look into into the cache,um no my to hdd's are both ide unfourchantley :(

but i was looking at the dxdiag file and i was seeing alot of stuff like this

Key 'HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Direct3D\Drivers\Direct3D HAL' is missing

is this normal?

Well, this here from your DxDiag file is interesting:

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DxDiag Notes

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DirectX Files Tab: No problems found.

Display Tab 1: Problems were found in the system registry. Details are available in the saved text file. You should reinstall DirectX to get the latest version.

Display Tab 2: Problems were found in the system registry. Details are available in the saved text file. You should reinstall DirectX to get the latest version.

Sound Tab 1: No problems found.

Sound Tab 2: No problems found.

Music Tab: No General MIDI DLS file was specified in the registry.

Input Tab: Problems were found in the system registry. Details are available in the saved text file.

Network Tab: The registry information for the service provider 'Internet TCP/IP Connection For DirectPlay' is missing or damaged. You should reinstall DirectX. The registry information for the service provider 'IPX Connection For DirectPlay' is missing or damaged. You should reinstall DirectX. The registry information for the service provider 'Modem Connection For DirectPlay' is missing or damaged. You should reinstall DirectX. The registry information for the service provider 'Serial Connection For DirectPlay' is missing or damaged. You should reinstall DirectX. You should reinstall DirectX to get the latest version.

On my machine it looks like this:

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DxDiag Notes

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Display Tab 1: No problems found.

Sound Tab 1: No problems found.

Sound Tab 2: No problems found.

Sound Tab 3: No problems found.

Input Tab: No problems found.

So it definitely looks like you have issues in your system. It might be remnants of old drivers when you have updated, corrupt DirectX install. I'd recommend using this software: http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/

It helps ensure that drivers are maintained properly.

wow yeah i see ima download it and see what it will do :)

Yeah, I found a lot of places in there with notes about registry entries missing.

Now, I don't know if any of these are actually causing the long loading times (it's a problem that has been very hard to nail down conclusively), but it's definitely worth ensuring that your system is healthy before trying to dig into a complex issue.

oh defiantley im heavily considering a full format and reinstalling windows just takes so much time to get back up to date

That might be an "easy" way to sort that out, yeah. :P

If you decide to go for that option, do remember to de-activate your DCS installation first. This allows you to ensure that you won't lose an activation because of this. Also, if you do so, do let us know how that affected the loading issue.

lol yeah very true but cant find the freaking packet with my cd key :(

Ouch, that's a good thing to have.

I take it you bought the DVD version then and not the download version? The latter allows you to retrieve your key through the DCS website, but in the case of the DVD version the packaging is probably best kept in safe storage.

haha oh no i gat the dcs one just not my microsoft key! :(((

Oh, doh, yeah.

I don't recall what the procedure is in XP, but in Vista I can retrieve my key in this way:

Start

Control Panel

System and Maintenance

System

It is then listed at the bottom of the page under the heading Windows Activation.

I'll go find my XP netbook and see what it looks like in there.

ah ill keep that in mind :) well ill letcha go man long night ahead with all the installing ugh! thank you for your help and effort you put out dude! ill post tommorow the results :) cya!!!!!!

I just verified it, I can see the key for my windows through a similar route in XP. It's not an english language install though but it wouldbe under System Properties, and the General tab.

sweet :) well with that ima just pop my vista disk in and go with that os!

I would definitely recommend Vista, yeah. It's much better at handling multicore processors and therefore gives a very tangible performance boost in DCS.

hey man just if your on today finally gat to reformat and reinstall os ima stick with my xp pro service pack 3 just loaded from menu to cockpit in 45 seconds :DDDDDDDDDDDDDD guess it was a flawl in the registry or the os!

Awesome. :)

a good read and a great result :thumbup: well done EtherealN

thanks for all the support guys :)