gannonmoss Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 You're right, a £800 custom build with Intel Core i5 2500 3.3Ghz, 16GB Corsair DDR3 and 2GB ATI Radeon HD 6950 is pretty softcore... This is what I'm looking at AMD Phenom II x4 945 3.0Ghz OC'ed to 3.4Ghz Nvidia 550 Ti (PNY OC'ed) 8 GB of G.Skill 1600 RAM DDR3 500 GB Seagate Barracuda (7200 RPM) Never taken me more than 30 seconds to load, and that is at most. My machine isn't a beast either, but perhaps something is damaged? Maybe your connection is a bit slow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindslyde Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Maybe its the configuration or exact combination of hardware, but with my i5, 8 gb ram, and gtx 260 it has *never* taken over a minute to load any planet. Other people in my guild complain about loading times too, so I'm not sure. I just know I don't experience this. It's just painful. Most times I'll hit the leave ship door and just go make coffee or something... compared to some of the other bugs and things it's a pretty minor annoyance though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindslyde Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Maybe your connection is a bit slow? My connection is never more than about 90ms, usually closer to 40ms. I've never disconnected or visibly lagged from poor connection. Updates come down at about 1.5mb/s. If it was something I could just fix on my side I would. I play 3 other MMO's and none of them are anywhere near as bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxey Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I have to agree on the Companions...I am not sure if you are a female gamer I am on the light side and let me tell you what - the Companions for your option to romance are awful.. Lets see- I have a Consular and just dinged 30 the only guy I have to romance so far is a man who dresses like a clown, and is in love with a Holo recording ...I think I slept with him (no clue as to as for sure all I was doing was flirting then the screen went black then he dumped me for Holiday) I was like ***??? Corso Riggs- is the only other one and I am sorry but the Redneck thing is just not me but what the heck its my only option...and he still has not said a word to me since he kissed me. who knows maybe hes in love with his gun and I will get dumped also ... Now my husband who plays a Jedi he has the best companion Kira she is done really well I am tempted to roll a male next time just so I can have a good companion... Bioware usually does so well with the companions but so far it reminds me of Dragon Age 2 companions and Mass Effect 2 ( for a female player)...Daoc2 they just did horrible with them and in Mass Effect 2 the romance options for females was god awful.. I got a Lizard man and Garrus and well the other guy but for like 10 levels all he said was 'Were good Shepard why push it " over and over and over...then I rolled a male and life was good ... I think Bioware needs to hire women to make companions because so far they are all a big big let down! Just not for the romance but all of them need a revamp they are very dull and I have no want to level any of them. Yes, my GF plays and hates the options she has not to mention the G rated end romance scans. The "PG rated" Bio Ware Mass Affect type thing she and I were anticipating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LionRampant Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Anybody who thinks loading times are acceptable probably hasn't got out of the starter zone yet. Alderaan takes forever and a day to load on my SSD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObiQuixote Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I've never once understood why people complain about loading screens. It's like complaining the sun is too bright, or that you have to go to work that day.I never had an issue with them, but it appears certain machine set ups have a huge problem with loading screens. They seem to be aware of it but can't fix it, because it was a question that popped up continually in the beta surveys, "how was the load time?" From reading and research I'm beginning to suspect the "Hero" engine was a huge mistake. I think it's only been used in one unsuccessful game. It seems to be very developer friendly with features like source control for world development, which as a software developer is a real cool feature, but it also looks like that as a end client gaming engine, it's an unmitigated disaster. No high quality textures, bad performance, no AA support. When was the last time a game launched without AA support. That is a huge blunder right there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxey Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Whats "AA support" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ald-Daedroth Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Whats "AA support" ? Antialiasing or simply put,smoothing out the rough texture edges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drayzen Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I have to log in to my character with a password. BREAKS IMMERSION. I have to type to talk to people. BREAKS IMMERSION. I have to go to the restroom often. BREAKS IMMERSION. I equip gear by click on them. BREAKS IMMERSION. I need to be a certain level to equip said gear. BREAKS IMMERSION. Remember that time that you didn't say anything useful? Oh wait, that's now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepekit Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 I have a monster gaming rig and still up to 3 minute load times... it has very little to do with the PC. P.S. 8 Gigs is not a lot of ram. If it takes 3 minutes to load on your computer, then it's NOT a monster And p.s. 8 gb of ram is indeed alot of ram. I have 8 in my computer, and the most i have ever used at once, is about 7.3 and that was under heavy unpacking... 8gb is by far enough for this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Libertine Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Seeing as Nar Shadda takes longer to load on my SSD than it takes to boot windows (22 seconds) I certainly agree with the OP. not valid really...the ammount of data being read when loading Nar Shadda is substantially bigger then what windows needs to load when its booting ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkateOnTrees Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 (edited) post deleted Edited January 3, 2012 by SkateOnTrees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malice_Nihilim Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Loading screens not necessary........ maybe you should code games lol Being someone who has... There are some serious problems behind the scenes that are making planetary loading screens longer then needed. Beyond that, though, there are not a ton of loading screens, but I think what might be offhandedly considered a 'loading screen' is the waste of time that getting on your ship is. Bob wants to talk to you on the space station....fly/port to space port, run a mile thru the space port, run a mile across the hanger, get in your ship, wait for a long take off scene, then run all the way thru your ship, click on the map a couple of times, go thru 'fly thru space' cut scene, then end up where you are going, run back to the other side of the ship, click on the door...another cut scene of your ship now going close to your destination. You then run a mile across the hanger, then run a mile thru the space port, fly to location you are going...have 30sec conversation.......do that all over again to get back to the planet you were on.....*shoots self in head* Running around with the cut scenes for travel and the HUGE rooms for no reason gets a bit old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aisar Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 Being someone who has... There are some serious problems behind the scenes that are making planetary loading screens longer then needed. Beyond that, though, there are not a ton of loading screens, but I think what might be offhandedly considered a 'loading screen' is the waste of time that getting on your ship is. Bob wants to talk to you on the space station....fly/port to space port, run a mile thru the space port, run a mile across the hanger, get in your ship, wait for a long take off scene, then run all the way thru your ship, click on the map a couple of times, go thru 'fly thru space' cut scene, then end up where you are going, run back to the other side of the ship, click on the door...another cut scene of your ship now going close to your destination. You then run a mile across the hanger, then run a mile thru the space port, fly to location you are going...have 30sec conversation.......do that all over again to get back to the planet you were on.....*shoots self in head* Running around with the cut scenes for travel and the HUGE rooms for no reason gets a bit old. This has certainly been an annoyance for me but hey, it's realistic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lundli Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 'fly thru space' cut scenes Spacebar works for skipping those too, that said I never have long loadingtimes.. around 30 sec mostly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHeadCapper Posted January 3, 2012 Share Posted January 3, 2012 This is the Internet dude, people don't want to read overly complicated stories that could easily be shortened to 1 paragraph if the poster left out all useless anecdotes and information. Please you don't need to excuse idiocy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunryu Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 slow loading times has to do with comp speed and amount of ram... do you have 8 gigs ? if not yea its gonna load slow . dont blame the game for you're lack of pc Always the answer isn't it? It's always the persons pc, well let me tell ya bubba, I got 8 gigs of ram, I got a 1 gig card, and it's still slow loading.................you people are what developers DON'T need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreadpirateandy Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 For every 1 person asking for things like these on the SWTOR forums, you can find a dozen people saying they're quitting WoW over the implementation of the same things over on the WoW forums. What does BW do? They can't win either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malice_Nihilim Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Spacebar works for skipping those too, that said I never have long loadingtimes.. around 30 sec mostly. actually space bar just makes the picture go away, you just drop to a black screen and takes as long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godsfear Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 slow loading times has to do with comp speed and amount of ram... do you have 8 gigs ? if not yea its gonna load slow . dont blame the game for you're lack of pc The game only uses 4 gigs of ram max. it's the game, we've already gone over this too many times. Once you get past lvl 35 or so the loading times get worse and worse. Never que a WF from Alderaan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redfeil Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Voice over is great … BUT: Again, a favorite of mine, but after level 20 ish it was same old answered to the point nothing was new. For a part of the game that obviously had focus and $$ invested they set it up to boar me after level 2-25 as all the answered were now on “heard that for the 10th time”. I mean they realy could have had these actors say the same thing 10 different ways then used an RNG/Random code to select 1 of many for the “same” type of response to make this interesting 1-50. Tell me about it. I'll gladly accept the "You can't play the auction house or else you get banned" nonsense if I never have to hear "I can do this in my sleep. Maybe I will/I'll sleepwalk through it.Maybe I will" or "Now you'll see how Havoc Squad gets things done" again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EwokLuvr Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 (edited) It's going to be a long time before many of those items are the way you want them. You should decide what's best for yourself and if you can wait a long time for them. Sorry :/ Edited January 4, 2012 by EwokLuvr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PjPablo Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 I've never once understood why people complain about loading screens. It's like complaining the sun is too bright, or that you have to go to work that day. Actually they are nothing like that. Not at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoobie Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 Could it be a server issue, as in some servers are effected by the long loading screen while others are not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trippend Posted January 4, 2012 Share Posted January 4, 2012 I agree with the OP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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