How would i Decrease my Loading time for Renegade? [message #112715] |
Thu, 02 September 2004 19:04 |
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Xante
Messages: 22 Registered: September 2003
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its fast at one point of the laoding time it like stops. for like 5-10 secs. and then it goes on..
i got teh fixed westwood maps, no cd crack.
2600 athlon xp
1 gb of ddr
any suggestions?
thanks
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How would i Decrease my Loading time for Renegade? [message #112721] |
Thu, 02 September 2004 19:24 |
Drkpwn3r
Messages: 317 Registered: March 2004 Location: Unknown to you.
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The same used to happen on my desktop - took about 2 weeks of constant run time (with a few restarts) to fix it.
Of course, my other computer is an AMD Athlon 2200+ XP 1.7GHz w/ 512MB DDR. :rolleyes:
I never really found what fixed it, could've just been my luck
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How would i Decrease my Loading time for Renegade? [message #112755] |
Fri, 03 September 2004 00:40 |
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Rex
Messages: 107 Registered: March 2003 Location: Netherlands
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This helped me a bit:
I defragmented my drive and I let my defragment program put the data/ directory of Renegade at the beginning of the harddrive.
(If you put a file or dir at the beginning of a directory,, your pc will be able to access those files faster)
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How would i Decrease my Loading time for Renegade? [message #112818] |
Fri, 03 September 2004 11:08 |
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snipesimo
Messages: 764 Registered: February 2003
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Just to contribute to the cause, I am having the same problem and I have tried everything, I just gave up.
AthlonXP 2400+
1024MB PC333 2400 DDR RAM
My hard drive has plenty of free space, and it is defragged nightly. I have the fast load maps, and the no CD crack. When loading, the bar moves very quickly then freezes on about 1/4 complete for around 10 seconds, then it goes to 7/8 done and freezes there for another 5 seconds. The total load time is about 20 seconds.
Recently, I gave RenAlert another try and immediately one of the things I noticed is that the maps load incredibly fast. Probably about 5 seconds or so total, which is 1/4 the time Renegade takes.
It was a long time ago that I was trying to solve this, but if I remember correctly by disconnecting my second CD-ROM drive, it cut the load times in half. But I assume the no-CD crack should fix this, correct me if I am wrong.
I would be very curious to know, however, if there is a technique used to make the RenAlert maps load so quickly, and if so can it be applied to normal Renegade maps?
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How would i Decrease my Loading time for Renegade? [message #112825] |
Fri, 03 September 2004 11:16 |
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Rex
Messages: 107 Registered: March 2003 Location: Netherlands
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I dont know what more i did, so i cant really help you.
I only wanted to say that I have a pc that has worser specs then yours:
AMD 2200+
512 MB ram...
But it loads the maps in like 3 seconds.... =\
Have you tried to put the data directory at the beginning of your harddrive?
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How would i Decrease my Loading time for Renegade? [message #112842] |
Fri, 03 September 2004 12:23 |
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exnyte
Messages: 746 Registered: February 2003
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snipesimo | My hard drive has plenty of free space, and it is defragged nightly. I have the fast load maps, and the no CD crack. When loading, the bar moves very quickly then freezes on about 1/4 complete for around 10 seconds, then it goes to 7/8 done and freezes there for another 5 seconds. The total load time is about 20 seconds.
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This is how it is for me without the quickload maps. It only does it the first time I load a map. After that, they load almost instantly.
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How would i Decrease my Loading time for Renegade? [message #112865] |
Fri, 03 September 2004 13:43 |
dal11
Messages: 67 Registered: December 2003 Location: St. Louis
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For some reason Most WW games hate having 2 optical drives, I had problems with slow loading on everything from RA2 to renegade. My friend who has a lesser computer by far always seemed to load faster, come to figure out after i unplugged my dvd-writer with one drive in it loaded faster. Even more so with the fixed WW maps. I Made Images of my games and with a virtual cd program cut load times in half.
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How would i Decrease my Loading time for Renegade? [message #113011] |
Sat, 04 September 2004 09:58 |
Opalkilla
Messages: 262 Registered: September 2004 Location: USA
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Same thing here......
They used to load 1/4 then stop... then load the rest of the way ( 256MB PC133 SDRAM, Celeron 1.0GHz)
NOw after I goyt this new PC they load incredibly fast. (Pentium 4 EE 3.20GHz, 1GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
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How would i Decrease my Loading time for Renegade? [message #113181] |
Sun, 05 September 2004 07:32 |
Homey
Messages: 1084 Registered: February 2003 Location: Canada
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I have a 3.0ghz, 512ddr and i load in about 2 seconds, excluding the first load. It should only take one first load with xp. My old win 98 took about 4 games to get up to its fastest ( 8 seconds). Defrag, clean up some stuff around your computer. Oh btw I have a 160gb @ 7200rpm which is about 50gb full.
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How would i Decrease my Loading time for Renegade? [message #113198] |
Sun, 05 September 2004 09:25 |
icedog90
Messages: 3483 Registered: April 2003
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Snipesimo, the funny thing is, I have less memory than you and RenAlert loads INSTANTLY (less than even a half a second). What's even funnier is when I used to have my crappy computer and only had 512mb SDRAM and a 500Mhz CPU, the levels in Renegade would load instantly like RenAlert. Right now, in Renegade the levels load in about 5 seconds for me, and the first time is always the longest.
Renegade's loading system is still mysterious.
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