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preaCor
Germany80 Posts
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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SkullOne
United States52 Posts
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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dogmeatstew
Canada574 Posts
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SkullOne
United States52 Posts
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. | ||
tofucake
Hyrule19029 Posts
Turn down display settings and close unnecessary programs is probably the only thing you can do besides upgrading your hardware. | ||
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Adila
United States874 Posts
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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HelloSon
United States456 Posts
i upgraded to 4GB of RAM on W7 and it made a hugeeee difference. | ||
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preaCor
Germany80 Posts
restarting the game after playing 2-3 missions helps a bit i noticed | ||
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FabledIntegral
United States9232 Posts
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arthur
United Kingdom488 Posts
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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FabledIntegral
United States9232 Posts
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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muffley
United States280 Posts
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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Demi9OD
United States56 Posts
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LonelyMargarita
1845 Posts
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 $150 mark, and it's plenty of space for Windows and a couple games. Store all your media on your old hard drive. I was upset my levels took like 10 seconds to load when I did single player. I assumed something else was the bottleneck since windows boots in 11 seconds. Is there any background application you can run to determine what is bottlenecking operations on your computer? It seems like it'd be fairly easy to write something that records everything relevant, then you could compare the data to what you know your system's limits are. | ||
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Chairman Ray
United States11903 Posts
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Ichabod
United States1659 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=139794 Spoilered link so not to break format, might not be necessary but just doing it to be sure. This fix may have very little effect, but might still help some. | ||
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whomybuddy
United States620 Posts
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sob3k
United States7572 Posts
On August 23 2010 14:15 whomybuddy wrote: Yes, Buy a better hard drive. There is a HDD hard drive out there for about 250$ 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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