Sh3 Loading times

[jas39]

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?

[Morts]

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

[Jimbuna]

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

[Spruence M]

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

[melnibonian]

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.

[KrvKpt. Falke]

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...

[Canovaro]

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

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by KrvKpt. Falke

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...

Not just the TGA to DDS switch
SH4 campaigns are also split into areas\years so the game isnt loading 6 years worth of campaigns as in SH3 but 1

For testing I use minimal campaign files and SH3 loads in a flash compared to normal
Plus SH4 has 98 folders in the Sea folder compared to SH3 and GWX 1.03 of over 170

SH4 air folder has 13 aircraft where as SH3 cw GWX 1.03 has 45
All those are loaded on start up

Thats where the faster loading comes into it

[Brag]

anti poll bump

[Jimbuna]

.....luncheon

[danurve]

Upgrade - memory pound for pound is probably the single best change, imo 2 gigs should do it.

No fan of load times here, but it does give me time to clear the foot mines out of the way into the kitchen.

[jas39]

are there any mods that improve loading times?

[melnibonian]

Originally Posted by jas39

are there any mods that improve loading times?

Yes they called Memory Upgrade and CPU Upgrade :rotfl: :rotfl:

On a serious note the only way you have to see quick loading times is to upgrate your computer. If you get any new Dual Core machine with 2GB of RAM you should be able to load the game in less than a minute.

[KrvKpt. Falke]

Originally Posted by jas39

are there any mods that improve loading times?

If you are using some supermod like gwx or wac then you can always use stock textures with them or resize those shipped with the mod. Smaller textures - less work for your graphic card.
If you are using gwx there are a lot of emblems - delete those you dont want, and game wont be loading them.
And - like guys said earlier- you can defrag your hdd. I am using UltimateDefrag as it allows me to sort files on my hard disc in whatever way i want: you can put your sh3 folder at the beggining of hdd (cause its faster there), Windows folder next, and files you dont use/need you can put at the end of disc/partition.
And defrag you RAM right before launching sh3 (auslogics boostspeed can do it).

But mods made to improve loading times - as far as i know there arent any.