Very long load time?

[rockhpi]

I'm running AACW on a laptop and when I first played the tutorials a year or so ago it ran fine. Recently I decided to get back into it, applied the latest patch and now from the time I click the icon to the time I get to the main menu, it takes an extremely long time. It's "Loading Textures", "Loading Engine", "Loading Data" for 6.5 minutes. I have 1 Gig of RAM, 2GHz processor. Everything else seems to be fine. Are others experiencing this?

[Gray_Lensman]

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[arsan]

I have played with 1 GB of RAM (on a faster PC, PIV 2.8) and it took a while, but not as much. Maybe 3 or 4 minutes.
Have you tried to uncheck the load textures at initialization option??
It should make the loading shorter, but i suppose it will take longer to start the scenario. Check if it's better for you
Maybe you Hard disc is too fragmented, or something like this

A trick i use (not to speed up loading time, but to make it less boring) is to alt tab while the game loads and do anything else (like reading this forum )
At least on my PC, AACW alt-tabs flawlessly while loading and playing

[Major Tom]

At least on my PC, AACW alt-tabs flawlessly while loading and playing

Interesting. I'll have to try that. I can't alt-tab while playing, only from the main menu. Haven't tried while loading.

[REBELCAT]

In my pc, Defragment and touch some of the textures in the game, and I'm much faster

[Gray_Lensman]

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[arsan]

For me it works both with the windows key and Alt+tab.
And while playing too!
I must say AGEOD are one of the more stable and fast responding games to alt+tabbing in my computer (windows XP).
It's a very nice feature!

[Major Tom]

I'll try the Windows key. Thanks for the tip. If I alt-tab while playing, I get a split-second glimpse of the desktop before instnatly returning to the game. I was thinking maybe I don't have enough free memory, or whatever the appropriate techie term is.

[Gray_Lensman]

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[ironwarrior]

Not an expert on these things, but I upgraded from 1 gig RAM to 4 and I noticed a HUGE difference in load speed.

[Gray_Lensman]

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[rockhpi]

Thanks guys. I'll try a defrag, though I usually only use the laptop on vacation, so it doesn't get a lot of use. As long as there's a reason for it!

[gchristie]

Old, slow PC guy here - the machine not me .

I had increased RAM to 1.5 gigs but the game still loaded and scrolled sloooow. Then I increased the size of the paging file and the game loads faster and scrolls faster. And when I quit the game, it unloaded much faster. Also made the tweaks in the system option as suggested above. Mine is not a gaming rig, so I milk it for what it is worth.

Hope this is of help to someone with an older machine.

[Gray_Lensman]

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