TrillionBuks Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 My load time is fairly quick (<15 secs for planets) and I use an Intel 510 series SSD. My Alt + Tab is instant as well. FYI: i52500K OC'ed to 4.7 MSI Twin Frozr GTX 570 OC'ed 8 GB DDR Ram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apocryphas Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I have no issue with my SSD. I never see a load screen for more than 6-8 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvsxxx Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) My load time is fairly quick (<15 secs for planets) and I use an Intel 510 series SSD. My Alt + Tab is instant as well. FYI: i52500K OC'ed to 4.7 MSI Twin Frozr GTX 570 OC'ed 8 GB DDR Ram nice oc want to play with a 2600k so bad but im at point need to change whole rig =/ pry just wait till next gen cores Edited January 19, 2012 by dvsxxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrillionBuks Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Nope. In WoW, my system loads so fast that I don't even see the loading screen typically. You're clearly lying and is just another attempt by you to bash this game. Enjoy your pandas dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrillionBuks Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 nice oc Thanks, took some trial and error in the BIOS to get it stable and a **** load of fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelobe Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Thanks, took some trial and error in the BIOS to get it stable and a **** load of fans. I use a Maximus IV Extreme mobo with a UEFI BIOS and it had default OC parameters set for most Intel CPUs. Is fantastically easy to OC for people who don't fully understand the specifics of the BIOS settings (or who are just lazy like me). Took me 2 clicks to go from the stock clock on my 2600k to 4.6. Kind of off subject, but definitely an awesome feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediMikester Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I have no issue with my SSD, load times are less than 15 sec. when first starting the game. New planets are less than 5 sec. Flash points i am usually standing by myself for a few seconds. My rig: I5 2500k @4.5ghz GTX 570 8gb DDR3 Ram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue-Reckloose Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I have 4 SATA 3 SSD's in a raid 0, and the load times have gotten worse with recent patches, but it's still below 15 seconds. I do alot of waiting for other people to zone load. For the people who are saying that their SSD and HDD have the same load times, did you image from the HDD to the SSD? If you did, that's your problem right there. If you're going to an SSD, you want a fresh windows install and a fresh partition. If you image from an HDD the sector size isn't right, and it destroys an SSD's performance. If you just added an SSD and installed SWTOR to it (and are running windows off of... whatever), that should be good too, but you'll need to move your paging file over to the SSD so you gain speed from that, instead of losing speed whenever anything hits the paging file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iliena Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I only have a small 60 gig SSD in my gaming comp so only have room for Windows and one game, that game used to be WoW, I ran this game in Beta and early realise from a 1TB SATA drive since I stopped playing WoW I put TOR on the SSD and saw a massive reduction in my load times. Anybody who hasn’t seen a improvement either the bottleneck is elsewhere in there system or there is something wrong with your set up such as not running the drive in AHCI mode, chipset drivers not installed etc... Run a benchmark like ATTO or AS SSD to check the drive is running at the correct speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvsxxx Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Yeah but in a full oc getting all your hardware running beautifully together clocked perfectly juiced just right is an art =) although they have made it vastly easier now days lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angrybirdz Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) My Rig Setting 1000 W PS 3.6 Ghz FX 8 Core Processor AMD Asus Crosshair V / Thunderbolt 16 GB Kingston Ram - DDR3 580 GTX Nvidia 2 - 7200 Rpm HDD's. Edited January 19, 2012 by angrybirdz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediMikester Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I only have a small 60 gig SSD in my gaming comp so only have room for Windows and one game, that game used to be WoW, I ran this game in Beta and early realise from a 1TB SATA drive since I stopped playing WoW I put TOR on the SSD and saw a massive reduction in my load times. Anybody who hasn’t seen a improvement either the bottleneck is elsewhere in there system or there is something wrong with your set up such as not running the drive in AHCI mode, chipset drivers not installed etc... Run a benchmark like ATTO or AS SSD to check the drive is running at the correct speed. +1 I agree 100% with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GthcRvn Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Please explain in full detail how its CPU based.... I experience slow load times periodically on my rig. Rig Stats: 2600k OCed to 4.2 WD 1tb Black 8 gigs of Corsair vengeance Nvidia 560ti super clocked Windows 7 64 bit - Not nothing is normally running but vent. So please do tell how my CPU is the bottle neck The game only uses 1 core. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrillionBuks Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I use a Maximus IV Extreme mobo with a UEFI BIOS and it had default OC parameters set for most Intel CPUs. Is fantastically easy to OC for people who don't fully understand the specifics of the BIOS settings (or who are just lazy like me). Took me 2 clicks to go from the stock clock on my 2600k to 4.6. Kind of off subject, but definitely an awesome feature. Yea I have an MSI P67A-GD65 and it has a button to push that will give you 4.5. That said, I wanted to push the limits so I went into the BIOS to get that extra .2. I was getting some core errors at first so I went to the MSI forums and got some advice and now I have been running without errors at 4.7 for 6+ months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruxe Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) My friend just recently upgraded from a 10krpm HD to a SSD and says his load times are easily 5x faster, if not more. This is with an Intel 320 SSD, btw. Edited January 19, 2012 by Cruxe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamanous Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) The engine is horribly coded. I have an i7 at 4.1 ghz, SLI 580 gtx, and an SSD, but I still get 3-4 minute load times. I run nearly the same as you (minus the SLI as that is extreme overkill) and my load times into game take less than 1 minute and zoning about 10-20 seconds at most. I run a Corsair Force GT 240 GB SSD. Edited January 19, 2012 by Tamanous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrillionBuks Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 I have 4 SATA 3 SSD's in a raid 0, and the load times have gotten worse with recent patches, but it's still below 15 seconds. I do alot of waiting for other people to zone load. For the people who are saying that their SSD and HDD have the same load times, did you image from the HDD to the SSD? If you did, that's your problem right there. If you're going to an SSD, you want a fresh windows install and a fresh partition. If you image from an HDD the sector size isn't right, and it destroys an SSD's performance. If you just added an SSD and installed SWTOR to it (and are running windows off of... whatever), that should be good too, but you'll need to move your paging file over to the SSD so you gain speed from that, instead of losing speed whenever anything hits the paging file. Good tips. Here is an article on optimizing your SSD for everyone: http://thessdreview.com/ssd-guides/optimization-guides/the-ssd-optimization-guide-2/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catch_TwentyTwo Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Something is wrong with your setup if you're getting 3-4 minute load times. Seriously. Agreed. I have a standard Office system, the only 'upgrade' was to remove the standard STI card and stick in a Nvideo GT430 card. Game runs like a dream. Max loading is 30sec, but normally no more than 10 sec. I get a title bit of flicker in Fleet, but only on initial loadin and that goes within a few seconds. All these people with Gamer systems are serious doing something wring I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imtrick Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 The game only uses 1 core. Nope, it uses two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ganix_tx Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Nope, it uses two. Hero engine is not multi-threaded. You are seeing your hyperthreading. Quote from Wikipedia page about Hero engine: "The engine is still single-threaded. However, it is planned for there to be a multi-threaded release, but the publish date has not yet been determined." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeroEngine#cite_note-4 My longest load time is 15-20 seconds on my SSD. OCZ SATA III. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackzabar Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Hero engine is not multi-threaded. You are seeing your hyperthreading. Quote from Wikipedia page about Hero engine: "The engine is still single-threaded. However, it is planned for there to be a multi-threaded release, but the publish date has not yet been determined." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeroEngine#cite_note-4 My longest load time is 15-20 seconds on my SSD. OCZ SATA III. Take a look at your task manager while SWTOR is running. There's a helper process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ganix_tx Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Take a look at your task manager while SWTOR is running. There's a helper process. That in no way means an application is multi-threaded. Besides, the second process has been talked about a lot on these forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wakantanka Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) That in no way means an application is multi-threaded. Besides, the second process has been talked about a lot on these forums. Every process must have at least one thread in Windows. So even if they spawned no new threads, SWTOR has at least two threads. So yes it does mean it is multi-threaded and also multi-process which is very odd for a game. Actually both process use many threads, you can see what they are doing to some degree with a tool like process explorer. Currently my two SWTOR.exe have 27 and 16 threads. By examining the stacks for the thread I can see both have a main thread doing the most work, but also both have as second thread doing a SendFilesToPlatformBugCatcher and a few in the main process using direct sound for playing audio. It looks like the smaller second process is doing all the direct 3D calls, so it is the graphics renderer. Again yes the game is heavily multithreaded. Edited January 19, 2012 by Wakantanka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thamightyboro Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 (edited) Got 2 x Crucial M4 256gb today one to replace my laptops 64gb and one for my desktop which had none. I can honestly say the load times have increased dramatically compared to the 1 minute to 1:30 they where previously. desktop is a I5 2500k @4.5ghz 8gb ram GTX 480 SOC and it loads hutta in around 5 seconds correlia in about 15 laptop I7 740QM 8GB ram GTX 460m hutta takes about 8 seconds and correlia about 20 secs What I do notice on the laptop is there a profound pause at around 33% loaded and as soon as it kicks past that it flys, the desktop that same pause is noticable but it gets through it considerably quicker. Edited January 21, 2012 by thamightyboro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leporello Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 If you purchased an SSD for this game or any other game, all I have to say is, "A fool and his money are soon parted." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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