They accidently put the xbox version on my PC...

O.T.2000 on 31/12/2003 at 03:06

So i have been playing the game for a few hours now. I enjoy it and it runs well on my PC(1800+, G4 Ti 4400, 512MB ram).
But what the hell is up with all of the load times!!?!?! Maybe i'm not reading all the user comments but nobody has mentioned this. Does everyone else have to go through this torment? Walking into the seattle landing pad requires a load. Walking into the Order's church requires a load, these are both redicously small areas. What the fuck is this shat??? I just put 2 gigs of data on to my machine so i could wait around for a loading area every 5 minutes. I'm really glad that i've been able to enjoy the game play or i might've really flipped out by now. end of rant

spamsk8r on 1/1/2004 at 00:28

I didn't notice the loads to be too interruptive, and they are usually pretty quick, unlike the first game, which took forever to load a new area on my 450MHz cpu. I think I would rather have more loads than long ones, but thats just my opinion.

BlackCapedManX on 1/1/2004 at 09:03

I like bigger area's and longer loading times, but I also have one beast of a pc, so I tend to not have long loads anyway.

O.T.2000, how long are the loading times? I get at worst maybe 30 secs a loading screen. I didn't find them intrusive, so much as I found the small map size annoying. It didn't bother me that I had to load so often, but everything felt way to tiny.

scglass on 1/1/2004 at 10:47

The two things that improved level load times the most for me were:

upping the CacheSize setting to 64
bypassing the cd check between every frikkin map transition

MechLean on 1/1/2004 at 15:07

scglass: Would you mind revealing how to disable the CD check? This is most annoying as it doubles the loading times and there's no progress bar for it (increasing frustration).

Also, does anybody know any way to disable the loading screen entirely and stay with a screen shot of the last scene?

vesuvius on 1/1/2004 at 18:36

would you mind explaining how to do both of those things? or post a link to where someone else has explained them?

O.T.2000 on 1/1/2004 at 20:32

yeah i'll third or fourth any tips on bypassing cd checks.

BryanN on 2/1/2004 at 02:30

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Originally posted by O.T.2000
yeah i'll third or fourth any tips on bypassing cd checks.

and you'd have to be stupid to post them here, especially with all the flack IS is copping over the game, they are pretty vigilant re: "suspected" piracy.

just google it - anonymous and accurate.

Canthlian on 2/1/2004 at 03:41

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Originally posted by vesuvius
would you mind explaining how to do both of those things? or post a link to where someone else has explained them?

I found how to change the CacheSize. (I hope) Edit default.ini, search for "CacheSizeMegs=1", and change the 1 to 64. (It should be in [Engine.GameEngine]) About to test it now, but if I understand it right, it should improve loading times a hellishly large amount.

Navyhacker006 on 4/1/2004 at 18:44

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Originally posted by MechLean
scglass: Would you mind revealing how to disable the CD check? This is most annoying as it doubles the loading times and there's no progress bar for it (increasing frustration).

Also, does anybody know any way to disable the loading screen entirely and stay with a screen shot of the last scene?

I've no idea how they make loading screens, so no. [random speculation]
However, it seems to me that it finds a 'loading screens' directory (or similiar) and uses one of those; either at random or based on where you are heading. Assuming that's true, you could probably replace them with a specific screenshot of you looking at it.. The problem is, it'll still flicker off, and you'd have to sit looking at that screen (probably without a loading bar as well) that may or may not be the same as the screen you just left. [/random speculation]

Can: Did what you were trying work?

==Navyhacler006
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edited for clarity