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Are poorly coded.
Source engine games are the only games I can't play on my new computer because they take seven weeks to load.
TF2 will get up to "RETRIEVING SERVER INFO" and then sit there for days.
Whereas Crysis runs at 60FPS on medium. Good work, valve.
/sarcasm
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Drunken_F00l Wrote:Get faster harddisks.
So a 7200 rpm sata with 16mb of cache isn't enough to not make the game take fourty minutes to load?
/sarcasm
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use a solid state drive as a secondary drives then use symbolic links to put the valve games onto your ssd drive.
Symbolic links with dropbox are amazing btw, I put all my settings into scripts and then used symbolic links to redirect tf2's cfg folder to dropbox. The result is all the computers I play tf2 from use the same cfg folder and i dont have to fiddle with settings between them. (particuarly when i reinstall tf2) reinstall tf2, I just recreate the symbolic link and the scripts will set everything back the way I like it.
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What are the disks I should be looking for , I have the same problem, since the disk is the only thing I never changed since buying my pc (3-4 years :O )
All the rest is cool, but I'm getting short on space :?
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check out toms hardware to find hard drives that perform well. For your needs pay particular attention to the PCMark Vantage tests on their review charts.
Example would be the new review posted today of the WD VelociRaptor 600g
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/wd60...600-7.html
And theres always the conclusion which is typically highly insightful.
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it's not an issue with his pc, source really is that bad
I can load doom3's largest map within 5 seconds
source always takes 15-20 sec
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Hell-met Wrote:it's not an issue with his pc, source really is that bad
I can load doom3's largest map within 5 seconds
source always takes 15-20 sec
This. And this.
I was playing CRYSIS WARHEAD and it never took more than a minute to load.
Yet TF2 takes so long to load that it is unplayable. (on my main computer it is fine but still unacceptable)
I am pretty sure that it is my ram, as I only have one gigabyte of something blowfully slow (like DDR2-400)
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