Load times?

[Gray]

Is it just me or is the load times for getting Half Life 2 loaded up rather cacky?

For instance when im gonna start playing HL2, load up steam and click on HL2, and the time it takes to get to the main screen i could go make a cup of tea, from cold water and it would probably just start to get onto the main screen then.

Then i click on the load icon, and it will take about a minute to load up, but after loading has commenced i get hit with a bit of insta-lag for a few movements while walking around which isnt helpful.

Also when it loads up a new area, on the airboat it loads new areas and i end up just crashing into walls because of where i was. Oh so fun.

Does anyone else maybe experience this? Its really the only time the lagginess kicks in so could be a bug?

 

[throdgrain]

I have an XP3000+ with a gig of memory, and it takes ages to load

 

[sibanac]

2800XP 1GB ram sata drives, takes ages to load and i get some 'stutter' when i enter a new zone

 

[PLightstar]

Running on a AMD XP 2100 with FX5200 and only get a stutter on new areas for a split second. Loadtimes are around 15-25 seconds depending if its loading a indoor or outdoor area.

 

[SoWat]

50 seconds from clicking on 'Play Half Life 2' until the main menu appears (my system is almost identical to Throddy).

Loading a level from 'Our Benefactors' - 15 seconds.

I have the 'no jump' bug so that's as far as I can get.

 

[Clown]

Takes ages for me too. My AMD 2500+ is clocked to 2500MHz, so that's like 3400+ or so? I have 1GB ram, this should be plenty. I doubt my Radeon 9800 Pro can help much with loading times - it's just a graphics card innit? I'm going to buy a WD Raptor (10k rpm) and a 6800GT and see if it helps anyway.

 

[Tom]

There are apparently some variables to help, one of which is -heapsize on the command line, which allows different amounts of RAM to be used for caching.

Also, the stuttering bug from Erik Johnson at Valve:

We've found a fix for this problem, and we're planning on shipping it no later than tomorrow.

 

[babs]

Open your valve.rc file and delete the last line. It stops it loading the animated scene in the background which cuts down initial loadtimes like mad.

 

[babs]

A bit more help, for those with the stuttering of the texture loads. A patch is on its way by tomorrow at the latest.