BF2S Forums tip for the really really fast CPU's out there

What is the tip?

couple nights ago i spawned before everyone on Kubra Dam as USMC.  i grabbed the f18 and flew straight for the MEC airfield and took that flag before any resistance spawned.  ouch.

i personally prefer the servers with 60+ second round start times.  that gives everyone equal opportunity to finish loading and spawn at the same time, rather than favoring those with faster machines.  *shrugs*

Absinthe wrote:

that's speaking from a 4 GB,  4GHz horse power 

Speaking from a 2.02GHZ, 2GB Ram.... I am usually one of the first to spawn into a 'new' map.... and I often check the players tab just to have a little looksee. So you don't exactly need a 'superfast' beast of a pc

Clearing out the junk, tweaking for unused background tasks, making sure there's no 'clog factor' when it comes to spyware and the odd defrag from time to time will ensure enough of a headstart ... and yes, it's great to be one of the first to a vehicle and to have captured a flag before most have gone through all the 'gltchy' stuff

xilix wrote:

Its all about the RAM...With 1GB, it look several minutes to get past the verifying client data portion, I added another gig and it literally only takes seconds now.

that is a true statement...the difference between 1gig and 2gig of ram is phenominal on load times

I have a P4 2.8 Prescott Edition and 1GB of PC3200 RAM... and I'm almost always one of the first 3 or 4 people to spawn.  I guarantee there are a lot of people out there with faster machines than mine.

i got   2ghz  and a  sucking   video card  and im always very fast in the server so   it has nothing to do with that

You should also note that just because players are listed as dead in the tab menu doesn't mean they haven't loaded the map, they just haven't spawned. Alot of ppl will walk away between maps to take a piss, grab a snack, whatever..

JeeSqwat wrote:

I've got an AMD 3500+ on a Asus SLI Deluxe MB...running dual SLI Vid Cards..with 2 gigs of OCZ Enhanced Latency Platinum Series memory...

And yes..the biggest improvement for load times..was when I spent another $274 for my second gig.

I agree with JeeSqwat. Memory will have the biggest impact on your load times. The CPU is second, and hard drive third.

I personally have 2GB of OCZ EL Platinums (2-3-2-5 at DDR400) with a Athlon 2500+ Barton OC'd to 2000MHz. After upping my memory from 1GB to 2GB, the extra seconds shaved off my load times places me in the first 2-3 loaded for any given map.

I actually break the load times into 2 stages: loading (progress bar) and verifying. From what I've heard, verifying involves some sort of security check on the data loaded into memory for a given map, probably an anti-cheat measure. This is why memory size is crucial, because low memory means you will need to page stuff in and out of memory (this is basically loading/unloading), slowing things down a bit. The CPU speed matters most after that, as it performs the checks on the memory contents.

I also tested the effects of switching to a Raptor hard drive. I hypothesized that it would affect only my loading stage (reading from hard disk), and not my verify times. I tested this and concluded that this is true.

If you want to cut load times, get the 2GB. After that, up your CPU speeds. Save the Raptors for when you have everything else upgraded.

xilix wrote:

Its all about the RAM...With 1GB, it look several minutes to get past the verifying client data portion, I added another gig and it literally only takes seconds now.

I'm running a 3gig machine with 2 gigs of DDR2 and its still dog verifying...30 seconds or more

Any ideas??

Absinthe wrote:

You're loading and veryfing the map extremely faster then other players. When you finish the verify things, spawn to the nearest vehicle you want to play. If its a jet.. apc, transport, armor.. ITS YOURS.
if you want to know how "fast" your cpu is, the first second you have the abbility to open the playes tab watch the darken skulls, and kits. The more skulls you see, the faster your loading the map.

that's speaking from a 4 GB,  4GHz horse power 

Its not the chip its mostly your drive speeds. Mem and Chip mean nothing with a 5200 ide slowing things up.

Usually I am the first to "enter" a new map in every server, if I'm not first, there are not more than 2 players with faster load times.
My PC:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
2GB DDR Ram Kingston

I'm running a P4 2.2 Northwood with 1.5GB of RDRAM (RAMBUS) and I find that it verify's client data a lot fast conecting to a Linux server (I think either Unix or Linux but not too sure) than a standard or 64bit server. I also have disabled file paging (virtual memory)

I know it has nowt to do with bandwidth as I'm on an 8Mb connection.

Its official, my PC is a shed