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Sorry in advance if this should be the wrong forum, I found it most fitting for something non-gameplay related
I only have 2GB of RAM, but otherwise a great comp, everything runs super smooth on Ultra. Except the load times, especially in the campaign, are atrocious. Im talking 2-3 minutes, plus 1-2 minutes of harddrive activity until you can finally play after a game has loaded.
Any setting I can reduce to make the game use less RAM? (im not talking VRAM, im fine there)
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Without knowing more information about your computer (processor model, video card, operating system) I would say your bottleneck is most likely your hard drive and lack of RAM.
I'm assuming Windows XP and a single hard drive. If you are on a single hard drive with only 2GB of RAM you are probably getting a lot of disk thrashing due to having to page a lot of data. Basically you're reading data about the map/mission you're loading while at the same time writing that data back to the page file because you have no more RAM to use.
During the beta I saw SC2 using nearly 2GB of RAM (if not more) at times so people having slow load times doesn't really surprise me.
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I guess stuff like textures take a lot of ram to load up so turning those down might help.
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On July 29 2010 04:18 dogmeatstew wrote: I guess stuff like textures take a lot of ram to load up so turning those down might help.
Yes, dropping graphical settings may help too.
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It could also be your motherboard's connection to your HDD. If you have a solid state drive with possible 6 GB/s transfer rate and your mobo only supports 3 GB/s...you're not going to load as fast as you expect to.
Turn down display settings and close unnecessary programs is probably the only thing you can do besides upgrading your hardware.
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On July 29 2010 05:33 tofucake wrote: It could also be your motherboard's connection to your HDD. If you have a solid state drive with possible 6 GB/s transfer rate and your mobo only supports 3 GB/s...you're not going to load as fast as you expect to.
Turn down display settings and close unnecessary programs is probably the only thing you can do besides upgrading your hardware.
The SATA speeds are irrelevant and don't really apply to his problem.
It's probably background programs or some other piece of old hardware.
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Windows 7 or XP?
i upgraded to 4GB of RAM on W7 and it made a hugeeee difference.
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yes, win7 64bit - im definitely upgrading to 4-6GB, but i was hoping to find an in-between fix
restarting the game after playing 2-3 missions helps a bit i noticed
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RAM isn't very experience afaik.
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On July 29 2010 06:12 FabledIntegral wrote: RAM isn't very experience afaik.
2GB ddr3 sticks are £50-100 each. Not exactly cheap, compared to defragging and shit.
Edit: Sorry I misunderstood, thought you said expensive my bad.
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On July 29 2010 06:16 arthur wrote:2GB ddr3 sticks are £50-100 each. Not exactly cheap, compared to defragging and shit. Edit: Sorry I misunderstood, thought you said expensive my bad.
Which you'd really only need to buy one of those, which are around the lower limit of what you posted in the States at least (I believe). I'm not too tech savvy however.
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What hard drive do you have?
Things such as capacity, spin speed, and cache are pretty important to reading from the hard drive. Also, if the sc2 files are fragmented, it can affect load times anywhere from a little to a whole lot.
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If you can afford it, SC2 loves a SSD hard drive. My load times are never longer than about 10 seconds. The 60GB drives have come down to around the $150 mark, and it's plenty of space for Windows and a couple games. Store all your media on your old hard drive.
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On July 29 2010 06:36 Demi9OD wrote: If you can afford it, SC2 loves a SSD hard drive. My load times are never longer than about 10 seconds. The 60GB drives have come down to around the $150 mark, and it's plenty of space for Windows and a couple games. Store all your media on your old hard drive.
I was upset my levels took like 10 seconds to load when I did single player. I assumed something else was the bottleneck since windows boots in 11 seconds. Is there any background application you can run to determine what is bottlenecking operations on your computer? It seems like it'd be fairly easy to write something that records everything relevant, then you could compare the data to what you know your system's limits are.
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There are factors other than RAM. If you keep all other programs closed, 2gb RAM should be fine for sc2. What is your hard drive speed and your processor?
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There's that issue with load screens being throttled and FPS shooting through the roof, maybe you could do the fix mentioned in this thread to help with wasted processor power. + Show Spoiler +http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=139794 Spoilered link so not to break format, might not be necessary but just doing it to be sure.
This fix may have very little effect, but might still help some.
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Yes, Buy a better hard drive. There is a HDD hard drive out there for about 250$ with insane speed faster than SSD drive. It would take seconds for you to start your window. Same for game.
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On August 23 2010 14:15 whomybuddy wrote: Yes, Buy a better hard drive. There is a HDD hard drive out there for about 250$ with insane speed faster than SSD drive. It would take seconds for you to start your window. Same for game.
wut?
platter faster than a SSD? This sounds dangerous!
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