Multiplayer: Load everything BEFORE displaying 'select role' page

[Lixma 06]

I can only imagine what goes through the mind of a brand new DCS player trying to join a multiplayer game....

 

OK, select role....I'll pick an F-15....clicks a slot....no response...huh....clicks again, again, again...nothing....is my PC okay?....tries scrolling the list....nothing....tries again...nothing...oh wait, it moved a bit....tries clicking a slot....nothing....won't scroll...is the game broken?....

 

etc

Edited November 26, 2018 by Lixma 06

[panther494th]

yes i have the same grrrrrrrrrrrrrr:mad:

[The_Pharoah]

thats IF you don't get the dreaded black screen. Then you rinse and repeat.

[David OC]

Need a little ram filling popup loading screen.;)

 

Zen out man...

 

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[Varis]

It's a feature. But would be smarter to show a loading screen.

 

Who knows - maybe they are fixing it with the dedicated server, would make sense?

[MikeMikeJuliet]

Another point on the same vain... say you are already on the server and a player spawns a new aircraft... after you recover from the 5-15 second 0-1FPS freeze you realise you are about 3 seconds away from instant death due to the freeze having happened exactly during your divebombing run. And the guy that spawned is 50NM away in a hangar opposite of where you are looking.

 

Please someone explain why the aircraft couldn't be loaded in smaller increments / slower to other clients especially in cases where said aircraft will have no gameplay effect on the other clients?!

 

I do understand not loading everything when joining since the load time would increase as more modules are added, but at least overhead it so that the menu is usable, and for crying out loud don't make it kill the framerate for the whole server when someone decided to show up.

 

At present the only way to avoid this is to get all players in before any flying happens, but that is impossible on open public servers

[VZ_342]

I can only imagine what goes through the mind of a brand new DCS player trying to join a multiplayer game....

 

OK, select role....I'll pick an F-15....clicks a slot....no response...huh....clicks again, again, again...nothing....is my PC okay?....tries scrolling the list....nothing....tries again...nothing...oh wait, it moved a bit....tries clicking a slot....nothing....won't scroll...is the game broken?....

 

etc

 

Patience is a virtue. Pilots must have patience. Therefore, pilots must be virtuous.

 

:pilotfly:

[Tom Kazansky]

I can only imagine what goes through the mind of a brand new DCS player trying to join a multiplayer game....

 

OK, select role....I'll pick an F-15....clicks a slot....no response...huh....clicks again, again, again...nothing....is my PC okay?....tries scrolling the list....nothing....tries again...nothing...oh wait, it moved a bit....tries clicking a slot....nothing....won't scroll...is the game broken?....

 

etc

 

 

:thumbup: exactly what I experienced

[Tailhook]

Just be patient and don't click anything. It helps to preload some of the most used models in the encyclopedia.

[Mr_sukebe]

Just a thought. Pre-load everything and think of the impact on ram requirements for a user, and then the associated noise from some users.

A good compromise would be to make it optional, such that 32GB users can say yes, 16GB users no.

[Lixma 06]

Just a thought. Pre-load everything and think of the impact on ram requirements for a user, and then the associated noise from some users.

A good compromise would be to make it optional, such that 32GB users can say yes, 16GB users no.

 

I think you missed the point.

 

I'm suggesting that the player not be invited to select a role until the game is capable of processing that request.

[Tom Kazansky]

I'm suggesting that the player not be invited to select a role until the game is capable of processing that request.

 

 

me too. this can't be wrong.

[draconus]

Yeah... loading campaign mission has similar behaviour too. Select campaign > click OK... nothing...

 

Loading screens are a must to prevent people from reseting their computers!

[The_Pharoah]

I don't know what ED have done but my loading times after the last patch have significantly reduced!!! also there's a progress bar on loading now which is great. On loading into the TTI server it showed me the F10 map which I thought was a bug..but I left it and quickly I was into the role select screen. So good.

[Tom Kazansky]

I don't know what ED have done but my loading times after the last patch have significantly reduced!!! also there's a progress bar on loading now which is great. On loading into the TTI server it showed me the F10 map which I thought was a bug..but I left it and quickly I was into the role select screen. So good.

 

I play stable version of DCS and I don't see any changes on this issue yet, sry.

[draconus]

I play stable version of DCS and I don't see any changes on this issue yet, sry.

The latest @release update was in October.

[The_Pharoah]

yep its somehow faster now which is awesome. You can see the progress at the bottom of the screen and whilst it jumps into/out of the map screen, it then loads you into the select page...I used to have to wait for another 1-2 mins before this page would work (which is when i got the black screen and had to restart the game). Now it works 100% of the time, I just select my role, click fly or briefing and then I'm in the cockpit. It still takes about 30-45 seconds to load the cockpit though (Hornet on the stennis) - I have 32gb of DDR4 ram.