Map loading is very slow

Post by **UndeaD_ZeuS** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 12:08 am

Ok I have a major problem. When I enter a game, loading a map, sounds, and player models takes a long time to load(which is approximately 30 seconds or more) and I know it has loaded faster than this (nearly instant). Also, when someone joins a game, my computer needs to load their model, so Quake 3 hangs as it's trying to load the model. Is there any way I can fix/improve this?

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:12 am

not sure about your map/sounds loading problem, but this will fix your second problem:

open the console by using the (~) key, and type:

/set cg_forceModel 1

"This setting is helpful if you wish for all players to look identical to your player model and use the same hitbox. You can set this to 0 if you prefer to see other players’ model choices."

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:13 am

p.s. i got that from the faq:

http://quake3world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=215

Post by **UndeaD_ZeuS** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:21 am

The thing is though, it didn't used to take this long to load character models (ingame and pregame), and maps and sounds at the beginning.

Post by **^misantropia^** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:05 am

Assuming you are using Windows, have you done a disk defrag and cleanup recently?

Post by **UndeaD_ZeuS** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:57 pm

I'll do one right now and post my results.

Post by **UndeaD_ZeuS** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 5:34 pm

I didn't see any difference in loading maps, models and sounds. I do remember I opened up the PK3 file once to extract some of the sounds. Could this be the cause?

Post by **^misantropia^** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:09 pm

Not if you didn't alter the PK3. What are your system specs?

Post by **UndeaD_ZeuS** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 7:52 pm

Well I think I may have found the problem. My harddrive is an IDE drive with 5200(5400?)RPMs and 2MB disk cache. It is pretty old, and I took it out of a craputer (compaq) so maybe it is dying? I think I'm just going to buy a new harddrive and ghost this harddrive to the other one.