![]() You could easily be spending a minute in just seek time. ![]() NS2 is comprised of 8000 files and harddrives take 10-20 MS to move the needle to where it needs to go more if the drive is in "quiet seek" mode. QUOTE (TimMc Oct 28 2012, 02:11 PM) We live in an age where most games load in seconds not minutes. It's clearly doing some kind of processing on files that takes longer than raw reads. Then it gets to loading actual assets this is pretty quick on an SSD, but it is much slower than the actual read speed of an SSD(Even reading 4k files a typical SSD does ~10-20 MB/s, weighted by size most reading is from larger files, so a typical SSD would do maybe 100-200 MB/s ). It starts by negotiating with the server, usually takes some seconds, then there is the appearance of doing nothing for 20 seconds or so(it is probably "compiling" the level, triangulating the polygons, splitting the level into chunks, creating data structures for occlusion culling etc.). And even on an SSD it's quite lengthy much of the stuff it does when joining a server/loading resources is not pure harddrive reads. QUOTE (TimMc Oct 28 2012, 02:11 PM) All I'm saying is that the initial load is seriously long. ![]()
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