Drax wrote:
so its internet connection and probably RAM??
Loading Game data to memory. All the information for the new map has to be extracted from compressed files on your hard drive and loaded into memory.
This data is the map itself, the vehicles, the guns, the player models etc.
Thats verifying client data in short.
Internet Connection and RAM do affect its loading times, but Harddrive also counts in.
I mean I got a good connection (4mb/s) and 1 gig of RAM, well in that post many people said get another gig of RAM. But as I later found out was that my HD was set to its lowest possible processing speed, therefore it took ages to load that client data, now its set back to its fastest processing speed and the loading takes around 2 minutes.
If ur HD is set to the maximum allready and u still want faster loading times, then 2 gigs will be a wise choice (as I have heard by fellow BF2s members, I haven't expierienced it yet.) Also, as DrM said in that post, when in windows, doing nothing with ur PC hit Alt + Ctrl + Del and go to processes, if ur CPU ever hits 100% (as mine did a while ago) then there a bottleneck in ur PC which will cut back on loading as well.
This are the things that will decrease loading times:
Get 2Gb or RAM.
Get the fastest hard disks you can afford [I like Western Digital Raptors].
Your GPU has enough RAM, should be able to play a mix of medium and high without AA.
Your internet connection is fine, as long as you are only using it for BF2,ie not downloads, P2P, file sharing. Things like Teamspeak etc will be fine.
Though buying 2 gigs of RAM, new HD and graphics wasn't needed in my case, maybe ur ought to look for it. I don't know what kind of graphics card u have now, but 256 mb would to fine
1 gig will do good, but if you want real fast loading times, get 2 gigs, and same goes for the HD, maybe ur current one will do, but if u get the fastest u can afford then things will speed up. And maybe if your Internet Connection isn't to good, look for an upgrade.
Last edited by RDMC(2) (2006-08-14 01:52:28)