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Sun Dec 16, 2007 12:53 pm
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Lesser zombie
Joined: 13 Dec 2007
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This is for Alpha Prime. The forum s/w keeps defaulting me to BE.
AP is a good game with an interesting story and all. The problem I have with it is it takes up to 40 seconds to quick save (F5) and even longer to Quick Load (F9). Yes, the problem could be with my machine but I doubt it - dual processor, max memory, 80 gig of open storage space, all drivers up to date. Anyone else experiencing this problem and any suggestions for a fix?
O/S Vista Ult. on Drive C. All gaming related s/w and program files on Drize Z. |
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Sun Dec 16, 2007 9:54 pm
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Skeleton warrior
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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Typically the cause for long saving/loading is low system RAM.
If you are running AP on Vista then you should have at least 1.5 GB to avoid the extensive loading times. |
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Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:40 am
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Lesser zombie
Joined: 13 Dec 2007
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| Thanks for the quick response. The system memory is 4G with at least 1.9G free and available at all times. There must be something I've set up incorrectly! Interestingly, AP is the only game with this Quick Save and Quick Load problem! |
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Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:25 am
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Skeleton warrior
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Very strange there... You shouldn't be having this problem.  |
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Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:41 pm
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Black element priest
Joined: 27 Jul 2004
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Hi,
this is strange. The quick save/load should take about 5sec. Do you use some resident antivirus software? It looks like conflict with some other software in your machine.
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Filip Doksansky,
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Sat Mar 07, 2009 5:24 am
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Lesser zombie
Joined: 07 Mar 2009
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| i have the same problem and it's NOT a problem with conflicting software...you as a programmer should know. i traced the game's savegame loading behaviour and here are some funny facts: out of a 50 second loading time for a quicksave, the game took 45 secs to parse a 5MB savegame in 2 and 4 byte chunks...refreshing the actual data in the game really just took 5 seconds. everybody knows that hdd-performance is at its lowest when it comes to reading small chunks of data! why didn't you load the savegame into the memory first before parsing it?? this would have avoided the problem. even a simple on the fly compression of the save states would have lowered the parsing on the hdd down to only 15% of its original time... |
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Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:30 am
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Black element priest
Joined: 27 Jul 2004
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| Xiaopang wrote: |
| i have the same problem and it's NOT a problem with conflicting software...you as a programmer should know. i traced the game's savegame loading behaviour and here are some funny facts: out of a 50 second loading time for a quicksave, the game took 45 secs to parse a 5MB savegame in 2 and 4 byte chunks...refreshing the actual data in the game really just took 5 seconds. everybody knows that hdd-performance is at its lowest when it comes to reading small chunks of data! why didn't you load the savegame into the memory first before parsing it?? this would have avoided the problem. even a simple on the fly compression of the save states would have lowered the parsing on the hdd down to only 15% of its original time... |
And you should know, that HDD data are cached into bigger buffer by system itself, so you can just lower overhead of calling OS functions by repeating this functionality in application. If your system takes 45secs for parsing 5MB, it's probably because you have hooked some antivirus into system or another performance hog.
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