Load times- wow...

[madkiwi]

Since I added the Merchant Fleet and Skins mods I noticed my saved game load times are almost unbearable- it takes 3 minutes and 20 seconds to load.

I know they are some big mods, but my HD is a Sandisk Extreme SSD with 550 MB/s read times... I can't imagine what it must be like with a spinning drive. My laptop boots Windows 7 64 bit in 17 seconds.

Time enough to go make a cup of tea once you start the game...

[Albrecht Von Hesse]

On my old Dell, without the Merchant Fleet Mod, running GWX Gold, it usually took 25 minutes to load a career.

[sharkbit]

Sorry, no sympathy here either. :O:

10-15 minutes with GWX. My previous computer would push 20 minutes.

:)

[HW3]

Yours is about the quickest time I have seen posted.:hmmm:

:salute:

[madkiwi]

Holy crap. Yeah, I'm running GWX 3.0 too, you guys must have a lot of patience.

My laptop is not the fastest cpu- it is an Intel Core i5 2.5 GHz with 8 GB of DDR3 memory. But I love my SSD, makes things very fast. I thought over 3 minutes was kind of sucky.

I'll quit my bitching now.:D

[sublynx]

I love my SSD

I think I could murder someone to get a loading time of 3 minutes :/\\x:

I hate buying new technology because it always seems to be a downgrade: from metal parts to even more plastic, from relative durability to a bigger risk of malfunctioning hardware.

However the loading times of a fully modded SH3 are such that I have decided to take the risk of buying a new laptop with an SSD drive eventually. I hope and expect the prices will start dropping next year. Another bad thing about having to buy a new computer is that I probably have to buy a laptop with Windows 8 - who knows if that piece of ____ is even able to run SH3 :timeout:

[HundertzehnGustav]

siriously...

GWX+ MFM (no skins)
HDD: Western Digital WD800 (75GB... 3.5inch) 7200RPM, driver date 2006, suspected build Date late 2005

loading time...
45 to 50 seconds game time, then clickong through "load career" and other menues 30 seconds... then loading the gam,e in the wilhelmshafen Harbor... 120 seconds...

3 minutes or a bit more, from SHIIIcommander to being on deck of the Submarine.

Ur doing somfing wrong...?
ugh? *puzzled*

[HundertzehnGustav]

Another bad thing about having to buy a new computer is that I probably have to buy a laptop with Windows 8 - who knows if that piece of ____ is even able to run SH3

you do not have to.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/windows-os-software/604187-legal-download-digitalriver-windows-7-sp1-13-languages.html

[Sailor Steve]

My almost-eight-year-old single-core rig takes about five minutes to load SH3 with GWX. On the other hand it won't run MFM, and I had to choose between the Wilhelmshaven and New Interior mods, as it won't run both without losing its lunch. :dead:

[sublynx]

Another bad thing about having to buy a new computer is that I probably have to buy a laptop with Windows 8 - who knows if that piece of ____ is even able to run SH3

you do not have to.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/windows-os-software/604187-legal-download-digitalriver-windows-7-sp1-13-languages.html


Thanks very much :salute: I have a Finnish 64-bit Windows 7 Home Edition now. I hope I can download one of these and I'll have a working operating system for years to come :yeah:

[madkiwi]

siriously...

GWX+ MFM (no skins)
HDD: Western Digital WD800 (75GB... 3.5inch) 7200RPM, driver date 2006, suspected build Date late 2005

loading time...
45 to 50 seconds game time, then clickong through "load career" and other menues 30 seconds... then loading the gam,e in the wilhelmshafen Harbor... 120 seconds...

3 minutes or a bit more, from SHIIIcommander to being on deck of the Submarine.

Ur doing somfing wrong...?
ugh? *puzzled*

My in-harbor load times are less than 20 seconds- we are all (I believe) referring to mid-mission saved-game loads. Those seem to take forever...

sublynx- My Sandisk Extreme 120 GB was $120 on sale in April, now it is on amazon for $97 (the 240 GB is only $168). The hardest part about replacing the factory 5400 rpm drive in my brand new laptop was reinstalling Windows and my drivers. I put the removed drive in a USB enclosure and now have a 500 GB backup drive- actually about 450 GB while still having my original restore files and OS there.

SSDs are mainstream now, no longer fringe toys for the early adopters. It was only 3 or 4 years ago that spinning drives over 200GB dropped below $200, I think the price/GB for SSDs is more than acceptable now. Reliability far exceeds mechanical drives. The only real bad thing about them I know is that if you have a failure nothing is recoverable. However, while data on a platter "may" be recoverable, have you priced what one of those data-recovery outfits charge? Let's just say that my $3,000 is better spent elsewhere, like on backup drives!

[sublynx]

SSDs are mainstream now, no longer fringe toys for the early adopters. It was only 3 or 4 years ago that spinning drives over 200GB dropped below $200, I think the price/GB for SSDs is more than acceptable now.

I have to agree there. That's not a bad price at all. And it would be great to be able to use the old drive too. :up:

[HundertzehnGustav]

today, 3TB platter data can be had for what... 130 euro...
with the permanent-run editions for servers costing double or more.
but yea, SSDs are the way to go, if you are a not-so-patient person.:D

still... i am a cheapo, so HDD will be with me for years to come. 50euro per Tera... no SSD can do that yet!

[Herr-Berbunch]

Three minutes - don't complain! :/\\!!

[Jimbuna]

I've experienced the day when my single core would take nearly twelve minutes but it was worth it.

Now on quad core wth eight GB so don't even think about it.

[STEED]

My old Dell 8400 takes about 1 minute on the first screen and about 3-4 on the main load up screen. Not bothered as I can do other things while I wait.

[AndreasT]

The loading times remind me of the days in the mid - late 80's where I had a spectrum 48k where to load a game one had to play a cassette. That sometimes took 20-30 min. Just to watch stick men run over the screen. It is worth the wait for a game like SH.

[Herr-Berbunch]

The loading times remind me of the days in the mid - late 80's where I had a spectrum 48k where to load a game one had to play a cassette. That sometimes took 20-30 min. Just to watch stick men run over the screen. It is worth the wait for a game like SH.

On a C60, 30 minutes later turn over, 20 minutes after that - crash )(*&&^%$£"!"£$%^&*() :/\\!!