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Originally Posted by jerm138
I have a pretty decent computer.
My weakest link is definitely my RAM. I only have 1G of it and it's only 800mhz.
Would upgrading/adding RAM improve my loading time?
Right now, it takes 6 minutes from the time I double-click the SH4 icon until I can be back on patrol.
I can boot up my computer from dead to on-the-internet in 30 seconds, so 6 minutes to start a program seems extreme.
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Hello Jerm138,
I guess I am a good a candidate to give input here. I have the exact same chip Pentium D 3.4, and I have Corsair XMS 800mhz ram. And a Gigabyte board that has an 800mhz FSB. So even though there are a lot of other things that affect the loading we are the same on cpu and ram speed. But I have 3GB RAM (2X 1GB and 2x 512Mb) running in dual channel mode.
If I skip by everything, intros, reading the assigned port and the date, don't stop at the captains room to change anything and go straight to the mission, I am in the boat in 1 minute and 4 seconds. Of course if I have to load a saved mission that could add more time, or could be faster depending on what it has to load, since it is loading a mission it doesn't have to go throught the captain's room, so it evens out.
As for MODs it depends on what the Mods are. You can have a MOD that changes a file, but if it doesn't increase the size of that file it should load at the same speed. The Mods that would slow down a load would be Mods that either add more objects (ships,subs etc), more mission files, or overwrite files. If the game loads for example the Menu1024_768 file and the second MOD overwrites it and the third one overwrites it again, you have loaded that file three times.
So I would think your best bet is to try the stock 1.5 with no mods, skip by everything with a mouse click and see how long it takes to get into the sub. Then you would have more accurate info to compare apples to apples.
But either way more RAM should help the situation. But adding
faster Ram may not make a bit of difference if the board doesn't support the speed. Also another thing that can affect loading is your hard drives. RPM, SATA, IDE, and how full they are.
I have run the game in the beginning with only 1GB Ram and although I did not time it, I am sure it was nowhere near 6 minutes. So there may be other things affecting the load.
Peabody