Sh3 Loading times
 

Hi, I was just wondering if there was any mods or patches or whatever that could decrease the loading times of sh3. As it is now, my system is above the recommended settings, and it still loads very slowly. Any tricks to this?

there is no patch to decrease loading times
just upgrade your pc

personally i dont have a problem with loading times since i have 4 gigs of ram and 2x2.40 GHz processors:arrgh!:

Not really....everything is dependant on your PC specs and what mods if any you are using :yep:

Although, there are plenty of MODs that will increase your loading times. :huh:

As a rule of thumb if you load mods via SH3Cmdr (like the GWX Skin Pack for example) you will see longer loading times. As Jim stated though a fast computer should load the game really quickly.

Its not normal that game from 2005 needs 4gig of ram to load faster. in my opinion it has not much to do with how many mods you are using - its about sh3 engine. i have both games installed (sh3 and sh4) and sh4 loading times are 10xfaster than sh3s. My system isnt new (gf6600gt w/256mb, athlon xp 2600 and 1 GB of memory) - like i said - sh4 is loading much much faster than sh3 (but runs slower). The devs did some engine optimizations and switched from tga to dds format. The same can be done to sh3 but not without developers tools...

It's just slow. Get used to it.:cool:
Have a comic or magazine ready and you will be fine.

No kidding; you already should have those, or at least _War and Peace_ or _Les Miserables_ or _The Karamazov Brothers_, at hand for the patrolling.

On my computer SH3 takes 6 minutes to load from desktop to conn. It's worth every second. I only play SH3 when I have the entire afternoon to devote to a patrol. I'd rather be totally immersed in the game for five hours once a week, than play in half an our chunks every day.

Previous system (AMD64 3200+, 2 GB DDR @ 400 MHz) - loading time = 7 minutes.
After upgrade (Intel Core2Duo E6750 2.6 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 @ 800 MHz) - loading time = 4 minutes.
Same HDD and OS before and after upgrade. Always loading via SH3Commander, GWX 1.03.

Pretty similar specs :up:

And the loading times, are they similar as well?:)

4 minute load time ?!?!
ive got 4 GB DDR2 ram
and 2x2.40 GHz processers
slower than your system
yet i load in or around 1 minute
and i have GWX with around 10 mods enabled with JSGME

Well, I really don't know why mine is so slow. Possibly it's because I've JSGME'd into my GWX every hi-res texture I could find, even those taken from other hi-res supermods.
New skins, new ships (some taken from SH4), better sounds, DD's open hatch mod with the highest textures, the improved scope, the bigger version of the radiolog, RB's SH4 effects for SH3, also RB's exhaust smoke and pennants, plus a few other mods...
The higher res texture, the better; and the wait is really worth every minute, as Skookum previously said.:yep:

i see.