rafter Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 I recently bought an SSD. I used to see 2-3 minutes load times for big planets like Tatooine, but now no load screen is longer than 20 seconds. I'm a bit puzzled how other people are seeing no difference at all. Probably because we didn't have 2-3 minute load times to begin with. My load times were never more than 20 sec or so with my old drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergulch Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 my home computer has a 2tb raid 0 setup, and my work pc has an ssd. IT'S NOT YOUR COMPUTERS, IT'S THE GAME. the game loads slow on my ssd as well. tl;dr don't run out and buy an ssd hoping to load faster in this game because it won't happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagessel Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Just read page 1, but since we are on the topic: I'm not a Network wiz but I have noticed that, when playing at really off peak hours with much fewer people online, the loading screen to a new planet is significantly faster than when zoning in at peak population times? If anyone could share a succinct idiot proof explanation I'd appreciate it. Mind you, it doesn't bother me that much, I am just curious how number of online users affect loading screen times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealMike Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Came here for Super Star Destroyers, leaving disappointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goretzu Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 The loading bar is: [middle] With an SSD, the left bit is almost instant, the middle bit glacially slow, and the right bit varies. Sadly, I think the middle bit is server comms - so having an SSD doesn't really help . Yeah there's somethign happening (or not happening) server side here which is extending loading screens massively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrobes Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 I had the game on my WD Raptor 600gb. The planet loading screens took about 15s I think, never more and never less. That's off the top of my head, but am pretty sure that's close to it. I've since moved the entire game to my 120gb SSD. The loading times for planets haven't changed at all. Or, if they have, it's imperceptible. So if my load times are 'quick', then I don't know what I am doing that makes it so. Like anyone else though, the bar zips to about a third, or whatever it is, and stays there for the most amount of time, before finishing the rest of the bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostvein Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 The game takes ~8 or so seconds to load in from scratch. Everything else is under 4, give or take. Put it this way - If I have any other loads (planets or otherwise) I don't even notice them. But then again, I just bought a brand new system so take it for what it is worth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bravotwentynine Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 5 raid 5 128 GB SSD drives. No difference from my spindle PC with SWTOR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrobes Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Came here for Super Star Destroyers, leaving disappointed. *gives you a T-Shirt with a picture of the Executor on it* Happy? Pointless trivia: ISDs (Imperial Star Destroyer) were 1.6km long (1 mile!), and SSDs were supposedly 8km long (5x the length of ISDs). :] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iain_b Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 (edited) System specs: 2600k @ 3.4GHz 8GB Corsair Vengeance 2x HD 6870s 120GB Intel X-25M SWTOR is installed on the SSD with my OS. All from my ship: Fleet: 6 seconds Belsavis: 28 seconds Alderaan: 33 seconds Voss: 24 seconds My old Lenovo T410s had a slow 1.8" drive and it would take 4-5 minutes to load a planet. My new T420s has an Intel SSD and is more along the lines of my desktop. Edited February 2, 2012 by iain_b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zilkin Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 i2500k @ ~4.5Ghz, 8GB RAM, 5770 Ati Radeon and Crucial M4 128GB SSD drive and I never see loading times longer than 5-10 secs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealMike Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 *gives you a T-Shirt with a picture of the Executor on it* Happy? Pointless trivia: ISDs (Imperial Star Destroyer) were 1.6km long (1 mile!), and SSDs were supposedly 8km long (5x the length of ISDs). :] Yaaaaaaaay! Thanks! *runs off to show off to his Mandalorian friends* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordRaevin Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 There was a lot of posts that even RAID composition of SSDs gives you zero benefint in loading screens. Sorry but that's not true in my case with my OCZ Agility 3. My average loading times are 15 seconds unless you're talking about tatooine or quesh (spelling ?) it's about 25 seconds there. Much faster than my normal HDD anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goretzu Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 5 raid 5 128 GB SSD drives. No difference from my spindle PC with SWTOR. Where is the main hang up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadslinger Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 I definitely notice a difference between my HDD and SSD when i upgraded. Some loadtimes got cut in half for me. I'm using a Crucial M4 128gb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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