Drastic55 Posted January 30, 2013 Posted January 30, 2013 (edited) Hello, i was wondering what the average load time for missions and or tutorials for users are i am currently running an I7 930 2.80 ghz with 6 gigs of ram and a gtx 660ti graphics card i am also running a 3-4 yr old 7200 rpm 250gig hdd for my OS. My average load time right now for a game is around 10-15 minutes easily which seems absolutely crazy to me. It also destroys my CPU usage it spikes up around 93% Does anyone have any suggestions on how to prove the start times? or have i missed something? Edited January 31, 2013 by Drastic55
El Hadji Posted January 31, 2013 Posted January 31, 2013 Invest in a SSD drive or at least a hybrid disc! My load time is measured in seconds rather than minutes and I run DCS from a Seagate Momentus Hybrid disc. Also what type of RAM are you using? Im using 8GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] My computer specs below: CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K@4.2GHz | CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro H100 | GPU: MSI Nvidia GTX 680 2GB Lightning 2GB VRAM @1.3GHz | RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 | SSD 1: Corsair Force 3 120GB (SATA 6) | SSD 2: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB (SATA 6) | Hybrid disc: Seagate Momentus Hybrid 500/4GB (SATA 3) | Keyboard: QPAD MK-85 | Mouse: QPAD 5K LE | TrackIR 5 + Track Clip Pro | Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog | MFG Crosswind | OS: Win7/64
Rhinox Posted January 31, 2013 Posted January 31, 2013 ...My average load time right now for a game is around 10-15 minutes... There is definitely something wrong. Even with trully historic drives you should not have such a long loading time! I guess your computer is waiting for something (i.e. for some process to finish), or trying repeatedly to do something (i.e. connecting to some network-address which is unreachable), finally it gives up and goes on with loading...
winz Posted January 31, 2013 Posted January 31, 2013 This looks like a disabled DMA problem to me. Try to copy a fairly large file (1GB+) from one location (on the same disk) to another and observe the CPU load. If it spikes to 90%+, even on one core., then it's a DMA problem. To fix it: If your HDD is a SATA drive, then a enable/disable DMA option should be in your bios. For a IDE drive - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Turn-Direct-Memory-Access-DMA-on-or-off edit: you are running 64bit OS, aren't you? The Valley A-10C Version Revanche for FC 3
Drastic55 Posted January 31, 2013 Author Posted January 31, 2013 Yes I am running windows 7 64bit... I will give what you suggested a shot and post my results.
Drastic55 Posted February 1, 2013 Author Posted February 1, 2013 Ok so i attempted to disable DMA as it was enabled and had no luck. After about 30 minutes of searching i have figured out the issue. My CPU is running fine i mis read the readout. The Issue was my ram out of 6 gigs windows was only allowing me to use 2 of them. the following steps are what i used to fix the issue. 1- Click on start and type in MSCONFIG 2- Go to the BOOT.ini window 3- Click on advanced options 4- Uncheck the box "maximum memory" 5- Apply options and restart the computer This allowed windows to access the rest of my ram and the game now loads in about a minute. Thanks for the feed back everyone who contributed.
Eldur Posted February 16, 2013 Posted February 16, 2013 I suspect the copy protection to be the culprit here. I've got an SSD and it takes up to 4-5 minutes to load up (from menu to simulation) without anything actually happening (RAM usage shown in task manager). First time I saw this issue, I had reinstalled my whole rig to that SSD with Win7 (Vista before on HDD) and I first suspected the SSD, but after some minutes the copy protection dialogues asked for my keys. Therefore I thought it was taking so long just once, but it's still like that. It came with 1.2.2 update and I hope it will be gone with the next one.
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