# of Units and Load Times

[iambecomelife]

How many units do you people have on your installations? I would like to know if anyone has heavily modded installs with lots of community created ships & aircraft - such as the GWX 1.03 vessels and single release ships - and what effect that has on your load times for Museum and Caampaign mode.

[Samwolf]

Using only GWX 1.03 ships (with the Sh3 Commander files) Museum takes the longest to load . Initial game load maybe a minute / minute and a half, mission 2 to 3 minutes, museum up to 4 minutes.

Used to have 1 Gig of Ram, just upgraded to 3 Gigs. Load times seem to have improved some.

[denis_469]

I use near 300 units total and time loadnig game near 5 minuts and museum not loading so weak computer.

[FIREWALL]

My rig loads ok but I never look at Museum any more.

I wonder if I move the file to backup if it will cause ctd.

I haven't had a ctd since it's been installed. GWX 1.03 that is.

And I don't want to screw it up now.


Anyone Know ?

[bigboywooly]

Combination of both units and campaign files Iambecome

I use a set of blank campaign files to test land stuff or scripted single missions
Load times are vastly increased

Of course the more units you have the longer it takes as well

I have 39 air units and 200 units in the sea folder in one of my installs

Time to first load is 40 secs
Time to Happy times mission load is 4 minutes

With Blank campaign files

Time to first load is 55 secs - ?? go figure eh
Time to Happy Times mission load is 45 seconds

[VonDos]

Hi ^_^

340 sea units (off all kind)
64 air units
22 sub units

\adverage time for load a campaign savegame: 6-7 min
\museum can't be loaded (can if i cut some nations roster and put it temporary in another folder; great nations like us, gb, italy..)
\single mission load time: 4-5 min (variable for mission type)
\initial load time: 2-3 min

My pc:
1GB ram, AMD athlon64 processor 3500+,
video card ATI RADEON 550X

[TheDarkWraith]

with GWX 1.03 and a slew of other ships and aircraft and all it takes about 1 minute to load.......but I also have dual Raptor 150's in a RAID 0 on a crosshair MB with an OC'd FX-62 providing the horsepower. Everything is fast.

[iambecomelife]

Hmm. Interesting results. My load times for missions and Museum seem pretty normal - maybe better than average since I have GWX plus my own modded ships.

I was wondering since I want to add as many ships as possible without bringing people's system to a crawl.

Racerboy, how is the noise from the Raptors? I wanted to get one but I don't like noisy drives, I don't want to run 2 in RAID and I would rather not reinstall Windows on the Raptor when I get it, so I'm not sure if it would really improve my speed/be worth it.

[TheDarkWraith]

Hmm. Interesting results. My load times for missions and Museum seem pretty normal - maybe better than average since I have GWX plus my own modded ships.

I was wondering since I want to add as many ships as possible without bringing people's system to a crawl.

Racerboy, how is the noise from the Raptors? I wanted to get one but I don't like noisy drives, I don't want to run 2 in RAID and I would rather not reinstall Windows on the Raptor when I get it, so I'm not sure if it would really improve my speed/be worth it.

I hear the case fans over the Raptors. They aren't very noisy drives at all. Just one Raptor will boost load times. Think about it, it's spinning at 10,000rpm...it's moving some data fast. It's the closest thing to SCSI for personal computers. I did a Raid 0 because I hate waiting for something to load, especially XP.

[brotebjo]

I too have dual raptors set up in raid 0. As much as I hate Microsoft and Vista...they really did improve the prefetch features in vista. As you use SH3 more and more often you load times decrease because vista is "remembering" where all the files are and what order to use them. All so running diskeeper with help alot...I'm using Pro Premire 2007. Before my crash last month, I was loading SH3 with lots and lots of mods under 30secs and loading a mission in under a min...


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