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ZIGS
03-04-2009, 06:40 PM
Let's make a list of things you can do while NecroVisioN is loading:

1. bake a cake
2. take a hot bath
3. do your taxes

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ryan40k
03-04-2009, 06:52 PM
On a serious note, is there any way to reduce the atrocious loading times?
cocolapin
03-04-2009, 07:46 PM
i have an hardcore pc, and loading times are maximum 35 seconds for beginning, and 15-20 reloading, I think it's honest :o))
Csimbi
03-04-2009, 07:48 PM
Let's make a list of things you can do while NecroVisioN is loading:

1. bake a cake
2. take a hot bath
3. do your taxes

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4. Have a cig
5. Have coffee
6. Make love
ZIGS
03-04-2009, 07:48 PM
On a serious note, is there any way to reduce the atrocious loading times?

Just in case there isn't (and I highly doubt there is), let's keep posting ideas:

7. doodle on your desk
8. shoot random stuff in your room with a nerf gun

Com'on, post yours too
contra
03-05-2009, 05:33 AM
9. Whine about long load times on a forum.
Karel
03-05-2009, 07:51 AM
I think loading time are not that bad, if you have decent PC :)
Also, incoming patch will further tweak loading times a bit..

If your loading times are quite high, try lowering some graphics details.
Gniarf
03-05-2009, 10:27 AM
For a given savegame the first loading is always longuer than the subsequents.
I did my little benchmarks, and I got 2mn10s for the first, and between 1mn5s et 1mn 30s (depending on the graphic settings) for the subsequents.
BTW: I extracted every pak file and made sure the game uses the extracted copies.

Questions:
1-Do you consider 2mn and 1mn not that bad?
2-Do you consider a 2Ghz octocore, 7Gb ram, 7200rpm hdd, gfx 8800gtx, decent PC?

Side note: Usually seeing something move helps waiting. In my case, there is a pause at ~15% (which takes >50% of the loading time), so the wires don't move there.

Silly thing: Do you have a 3d context initialized behind the load screen? 'Coz if you could make a very simple animation (I was thinking about raining corpses with ragdoll effect), it would make loading times...more fun.

10. Do your homework
11. Try to remember where you found this or that letter
12. Eat lunch
Spieler
03-05-2009, 02:18 PM
Try creating a new folder "maps" in the Data directory. I'm not sure if this works for NV, too but it did for Overdose.
With Raid 0 I fortunately don't have any problems with loading times. I will count them when I'm back from work.
ZIGS
03-05-2009, 05:50 PM
9. Whine about long load times on a forum.

Funny you say that, I started this thread while waiting for Necrovision to load :grin:
blackwidow
04-17-2009, 05:59 PM
has it loaded yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KingDaniel
05-12-2009, 11:56 AM
Hmmm.. Listen to METAL / Rock. ;)

Any Metalheads here ? Guess not.
game_over
07-08-2009, 07:51 PM
Hmmm.. Listen to METAL / Rock. ;)

Any Metalheads here ? Guess not.
Death Metal, just for fun.
Also noticed the menu background music sounds similar to Mortican's Zombie Apocalypse

13. Order the Monty Python collection online
14. Play Doom
15. Read some H.P. Lovecraft stories
16. Read a book about Psychology (I got plenty)
17. write down this post
18. devide by zero
????
PROFIT!

Edit: got the sequence mixed up, had to change numbers