Very slow loading.
 

I have noticed very slow loading and unloading of SH3 after I have recently reinstalled and patched with GWX mod. I have rather fast 2.8 P4 with 512 MB mem. Maybe memory should be upgraded tad larger. Any suggestion?

The amount of RAM and the type of RAM is one of the biggest factors in loading times. 1GB of RAM or less will give you a long loading time.
Find out what kind of RAM your mother board takes, check there is a empty RAM stick slot and buy some more if you can.
If not, boil some tea or mix up a u-boat cocktail whist you wait for it to load. :up:


Defragmentating your hard drive will have a positive effect if you have the time for it. Remember not to touch your PC when you are doing this and disable your screen saver first!

You are not alone...

My boot time for GWX is 2 minutes for the game to load and an additional 7 minutes for a save game or new mission to load. P4/3GHz/1G RAM. It is worth the wait...

Just the time to prepare tea/coffee, food, booze and cigarettes for a long cruise...;)

Minor issue for me. The load times are longer, but there is a lot more stuff in GWX. The wait is worth it in the end.

A tip, not only for SH3, but for all programs, defrag your drive at least once a week (I defrag my disks everyday), if you can invest on a good defrag program (diskeeper for example).
Also set your paging file to a fixed size, about one and a half times your physical ram, it prevents windows from increasing the page file every time you launch a memory demanding program.

Ref

Even with a defrag Ref it's slow. I ran my GWX career lastnight after a fresh defrag and it was still slow loading.

I've got 2gigs of RAM, a P4 3.2E CPU and it's still slow. I figure it's due to all the chnages incorporated in GWX, which isn't all that bad considering what we have. Single missions are actually slower than my career. I'd say it's something we just have to live with. ;) And I don't mind, I like GWX just the way it is. :D

Its a trade of with load times and contents
The second load deals with the shipping\aircraft and campaign contents so the more you add the longer it takes

Thank you all for reply and advice. I can see that this is then the feature of new SH3 and not a problem. I'll try upkeep my HD more often and get some more memory.

For comparisons sake, I have a high end computer, dual core, 2g of Corsair pc3500 memory and my game loads in 20-40 seconds and the career loads 1-1/4 to 2 minutes. :up:

I think BB is right...about the 'trade off'...thankfully everyone realises different machine specs = different loading times....and the wait is def worth it :up:

As more merchants and warships become available then load times will increase
Probably the reason the SH3 Devs left the ship list so small

Ref, could you give advise how to go about this?

Thanks

KC

So true, so true :lol:

With my stock SHIII career and all 80+ mods installed, it takes even longer to load than GWX. No complaints from me, just the Kaptain, as he wants to get a move on. ;)

:rotfl: :rotfl:

Slow.........
 

First of GWX rocks and is worth the wait.

I have a P-4 3200 with 2 GB's RAM, fesh defrags daily, and a 160 GB HD with only 40GB used.

Average startup is over 2 minutes. Single game loads are varied but 3 -4 minutes is not unusual.

I am loaded with 16KM, and full outfit....

There's lot's to wait for so.....


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SH3 needs a least 256Mb RAM to run... With GWX, since it increases the workload by higher realism, better textures... You should expect at least 512Mb ram. Use some tools to free up RAM before running SH3 may help

I was wondering if anyone has a RAID array and what the loading times are like for GWX? (Of course, the other components also factor in.) I don't hear that much about RAID systems anymore, though they're still being built and used.
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Mine is. See my post earlier in this thread. :up: