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Originally Posted by VonHelsching
I have the impression that the GFX card does not affect the loading speed. I have an old AMD Athlon 2200+, 1GB ram and I upgraded my Nvidia 5200 to a 6800GT. Loading time was the same.
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Correct. The video card won't impact game loading times.
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Originally Posted by VonHelsching
I guess in your case JS, it is a combination of a fast HD + a faster processor (yes?  )
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Yeah. Plus I've also made sure that I've used components that are best suited to, and most compatible with, each other.
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Originally Posted by Firebird
I guess SH3 is preloading a number of files to lessen the loadtime when you actually want to play, because that menu doesn't require much.
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Correct.
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Originally Posted by Deep Six
Get your self this little program if you can it's still free somewhere on the net called "End it All", it closes down all most programs running in the background. Speeds up everything quite appreciably...
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FSAutoStart is another similar product. I think it provides the same functionality as End-It-All plus some extra scripting features.