For everone with long loading times

2006-09-04 12:57:54

#1

RDMC: Enemy Wheelbarrow Spotted..!!; +736|7030|Area 51

Instead of answering all pm's and waiting every 60 seconds.
If you are experiencing extremely long loading times, 8 - 10 minutes, [DON'T go off and buy all kinds of upgrades before you do check if your Harddrive is set to its fastest mode.
Here is the instruction (translated as best as I could, hope it will help people with extreme long loading times):
I'm sorry if the translations don't match.
Go to Start and select the Configuration Screen.
If you have selected the correct screen then you ought to look for the directory ''System''
Once you have opened system, open ''hardware'' on top you will find ''apparatus management'' or somethin along that line, open that, and then browse to IDE, ATA,ATAPI (that what is says with my HD) but if you have a SATA HD open the SATA thing,
ok next: select the primaire IDE Channel (again if you have a SATA HD select the Primaire SATA channel)
Then go to advanced options and put the mode to DMA and then it should say that it running on Ultra DMA mode 5 or 6, depending on your HD.
Anyways thats what my Dad did. I hope you will manage to find it
BTW, make sure that in your BIOS that your HD is set to the same DMA mode 5 (5 for me, for you, the highest one)

RDMC

Last edited by RDMC(2) (2006-09-04 13:02:31)

2006-09-04 13:00:18

#2

rustynutz: I am British!; +124|7148|England and damn proud

Gonna try it now.

2006-09-04 14:26:09

#3

[CANADA]_Zenmaster: Pope Picard II; +473|7211

Another useful tip is to remove all your unused favorites and recent server visits from:

C:\Documents and Settings\YOURNAME\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0001(YOURPROFILENUMBER)\General.con

Remove all the favorite servers and recently visited servers and your login time will be dramatically reduced.

It seems like when you log in BF2 tries to ping all of your recent visits and favorite servers, and when some don't respond it takes for friggen ever to log in. It is a pretty asinine setup!

2006-09-04 14:37:49

#4

MECtallica: Member; +73|6970|jalalabad

my HDD is old , cant change it, at ULTRA 5 DMA
hey zenmaster lol
and yea, I get that favorite problem, I ping 7000 on them at start WTF

2006-09-04 15:19:03

#5

explosivo: Banned; +262|7108

8-10 mins????

fuck me!

mine takes about 15 seconds

2006-09-04 15:20:29

#6

SGT.Slayero: Member; +98|6930|Life in a vacuum sucks

its really hard to read the red text

2006-09-04 15:22:47

#7

Zeus=18=: TEABAG; +10|6911|Proud to be Canadian!

explosivo wrote:
8-10 mins????

fuck me!

mine takes about 15 seconds

Well not all of us have 403534593460596803498ht3340 Gigs of ram thank you very much!

2006-09-04 16:29:26

#8

broncobullfrog: Extra Tender Juicy SPINY; +58|7216|The 70's

OK, now how do I fix my eyes?

2006-09-04 16:31:02

#9

Ryan: Member; +1,230|7308|Alberta, Canada

Wheres the configuration screen?

2006-09-04 16:32:28

#10

rustynutz: I am British!; +124|7148|England and damn proud

My game used to load in 15 secinds but now it takes longer i dunno why i did that but my HDD's where all set on the highest

2006-09-04 16:45:28

#11

[mcp]eltorrente: Member; +26|6973

I have 4 Samsung drives in a Raid 0 x 4, running on an Areca 1210 PCIex8 Raid card with 128megs of RAM and a 500mhz onboard processor. This card is very, very fast - much faster than any onboard raid solution. I have two additional drives for scratch disks and a dedicated page file partition. I built this computer last year, and I have NEVER, EVER, EVER seen anyone get into the game before me. I am ALWAYS the first person in the game- it's great!

I have actually capped the Hotel at Karkand before anyone could spawn in and stop me from nuetralizing it- on 64 person servers. Servers that don't have time limits before the games start are where it makes a HUGE difference (like capping the Hotel).

Last edited by [mcp]eltorrente (2006-09-04 16:46:20)

2006-09-04 16:49:46

#12

rustynutz: I am British!; +124|7148|England and damn proud

[mcp]eltorrente wrote:
I have actually capped the Hotel at Karkand before anyone could spawn in and stop me from nuetralizing it- on 64 person servers. Servers that don't have time limits before the games start are where it makes a HUGE difference (like capping the Hotel).

Yea i used to be able to do that it was great, cause i only had windows and BF2 installed at one time (not including drivers etc. it was marvelous!

2006-09-04 18:51:17

#13

Hyper: Banned; +154|7216

ryan_14 wrote:
Wheres the configuration screen?

actually he means right click my computer, properties, device manager
browse to your HDD then hit properties
its badly translated

2006-09-04 23:35:24

#14

RDMC: Enemy Wheelbarrow Spotted..!!; +736|7030|Area 51

Hyper wrote:
ryan_14 wrote:
Wheres the configuration screen?
actually he means right click my computer, properties, device manager
browse to your HDD then hit properties
its badly translated

Well I'm sorry, I'm not English..you know

2006-09-05 04:11:41

#15

Hyper: Banned; +154|7216

no need to be srry
im betting that ur english is better than my (insert your native tongue here)

Last edited by Hyper (2006-09-05 04:11:50)

2006-09-05 04:15:44

#16

drake666: when Hell is full...; +184|7175|austria

Zeus=18= wrote:
explosivo wrote:
8-10 mins????

fuck me!

mine takes about 15 seconds
Well not all of us have 403534593460596803498ht3340 Gigs of ram thank you very much!

thats a lot of ram.... ^^

i found out that when i set everything to low (grafics) the loadingspeed also gets better!

https://team-ex.de/imagehosting/daten/1323768139_m98b.png

Usque Ad Finem

2006-09-05 04:34:15

#17

DoctorFruitloop: Level 13 Wrongdoer; +515|7011|Doncaster, UK

Yeah, I don't think he was being critical, I think he was actually defending you on being able to talk a second language well enough to have a technical conversation. Kudos to you.

It's amazing isn't it. You spend 5 years learning a foreign language at school and when you finish, and I might add get a qualification, you can ask for a ham sandwaiuch, be directed to the train station, and name the rooms in your house. We English are very lucky that the rest of the world makes an effort to speak our language.

2006-09-05 04:37:44

#18

Surgeons: U shud proabbly f off u fat prik; +3,097|6955|Gogledd Cymru

well you all should check out the new intel core 2 duo's even tho i aint tested internet play singleplayer on high aax4 loads in 7.8 seconds on sharqi

2006-09-05 04:38:57

#19

[AD]will_young[G36E]: spreader of the herpies; +33|6995|Down under, melbourne

umm you kind of lost me at system..

ddr hdstd r 45 dhr std?????

2006-09-05 04:39:28

#20

DrunkFace: Germans did 911; +427|7146|Disaster Free Zone

explosivo wrote:
8-10 mins????

fuck me!

mine takes about 15 seconds

15 seconds is damn fast. takes me about 40-70 seconds and I in no way have a good computer.

according to my stats... games go for about 863.5 seconds (14mis 23 sec). So you saying you get to play 4 minutes for the first time on each map? Fuck that must suck.

According to karkand king volx. rounds go for 668 so If the map was karkand you'd join just in time to to get 1-2 kills before the next round.

Now it could be just me, But either you have way to much fucking patience to put up with this or you completly full of shit about how long it really takes to load a map.

2006-09-05 04:49:09

#21

CLEVERLITTLETROJAN: I killed you,you just don't know it yet; +18|7079|birmingham,uk

My Eye's Omg The Red The Red My Eye'sssssssssss Arararrararrrrrrrrrrr

2006-09-05 05:14:54

#22

explosivo: Banned; +262|7108

i use 4gb ram and i can usually cap a flag before anyone else arrives

i wish i did have 986758768908988976890876764 gb of ram (or whatever it was you said)

Last edited by explosivo (2006-09-05 05:16:15)

2006-09-05 05:20:46

#23

Noop-Ni: ROAR; +14|6964

My old hard drive took around 5 minutes to verify client data, and that's no exaggeration. I literally timed it and it went for that long. Sometimes longer, too.

Yeah, I was pretty happy when I got my new HD. Pretty damn happy.

2006-09-05 05:31:24

#24

High Spirit: Member; +5|7037|Canada, Eh?

[CANADA]_Zenmaster wrote:
Another useful tip is to remove all your unused favorites and recent server visits from:

C:\Documents and Settings\YOURNAME\My Documents\Battlefield 2\Profiles\0001(YOURPROFILENUMBER)\General.con

Remove all the favorite servers and recently visited servers and your login time will be dramatically reduced.

It seems like when you log in BF2 tries to ping all of your recent visits and favorite servers, and when some don't respond it takes for friggen ever to log in. It is a pretty asinine setup!

I've been meaning to ask about where that list is located. My list is corrupted and causing problems when I login. Once I am logged in, everything is fine.

+1 for you!

2006-09-05 05:36:43

#25

High Spirit: Member; +5|7037|Canada, Eh?

[mcp]eltorrente wrote:
I have 4 Samsung drives in a Raid 0 x 4, running on an Areca 1210 PCIex8 Raid card with 128megs of RAM and a 500mhz onboard processor. This card is very, very fast - much faster than any onboard raid solution. I have two additional drives for scratch disks and a dedicated page file partition. I built this computer last year, and I have NEVER, EVER, EVER seen anyone get into the game before me. I am ALWAYS the first person in the game- it's great!

I have actually capped the Hotel at Karkand before anyone could spawn in and stop me from nuetralizing it- on 64 person servers. Servers that don't have time limits before the games start are where it makes a HUGE difference (like capping the Hotel).

Ouch... Raid 0 x 4? 4x the chance of loosing a HD and your raid... A stripe raid is good, but it's only reliable if you have a mirror to back it up.

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explosivo wrote:

[mcp]eltorrente wrote:

ryan_14 wrote:

Hyper wrote:

ryan_14 wrote:

Zeus=18= wrote:

explosivo wrote:

explosivo wrote:

[CANADA]_Zenmaster wrote:

[mcp]eltorrente wrote:

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