Slow to load textures!

Markus30 · 17 Feb 2012 at 23:28

Dear all,

This is a weird one, on Arkham city, when running the game or the benchmark program a lot of the textures are "missing"? They do get loaded at eventually but it's as if the computer is really slow at loading them - the HDD light is always on at this point so I'm suspecting use of virtual memory here. Any thoughts as to the cause? Memory too low?

I've put up a related post (see "CPU bottleneck & GTX560 Ti").

System:

Vista 32bit (SP2), Q6600 @ 2.4GHZ (not overclocked), MSI GTX560Ti (Twin Frozr II), ASUS P5KC, 2Gb DDR2 RAM, all drivers up-to-date.

Regards,

Mark

Sasahara · 17 Feb 2012 at 23:36

2GB with Vista and running a GTX560Ti your almost certainly too low on memory.

Overclocking is certainly needed too, if your mobo is upto it.

Running @ 1080P or higher?

olivier renault · 18 Feb 2012 at 09:26

2GB can be really bad with resource-hungry programs. What will happen is that your computer will start swapping memory between the RAM and the page file. I upgraded from 2GB to 4GB on a previous old machine, I had similar symptoms to yours.

Since you are using 32 bit operating system, it will only recognise 3GB ram, but that will still help.

To help further, you can try and reduce the amount of ram usage, but I would suspect Arkham would still need most of it, leaving little for the rest.

If your hard drive is almost full, then that will only exacerbate the problem. You can defrag the drive, and set the page file to fixed size. You can also reserve a (small) partition for the page file to stop it fragmenting further.

Cupra · 18 Feb 2012 at 09:37

1. ditch windows vista, its crap get 64bit 7
2. Get more ram, 4gb kit would be just fine
3. Overclock the cpu
4. Enjoy

wannabedamned · 18 Feb 2012 at 09:39

What speed is your hard drive? As I would actually look at that as the first culprit with regards to loading textures.

Markus30 · 18 Feb 2012 at 11:15

Thanks for the replies.

Looks like it's a classic case of upgrading the GPU and then finding other bottle necks.

I'm not sure what speed my HDD but I'm sure it's on the original SATAI type of connector (and it's 4-5 years old!)

Regards,

Mark

beejjacobs · 18 Feb 2012 at 14:51

I wouldn't upgrade the GPU? That's a good one!

1. ditch windows vista, its crap get 64bit 7
2. Get more ram, 4gb kit would be just fine
3. Overclock the cpu
4. Enjoy

That's what I'd do!

Lordgrayone · 18 Feb 2012 at 16:41

beejjacobs said:
I wouldn't upgrade the GPU? That's a good one!

You misread the op he meant he has upgraded to the 560ti and now has a bottleneck

Markus30 · 18 Feb 2012 at 18:43

@Olivier

When you said the following:
"You can defrag the drive, and set the page file to fixed size. You can also reserve a (small) partition for the page file to stop it fragmenting further. "

How does one go about fixing the page file and reserving a partition for the page file?

Thanks,

Mark

d_brennen · 18 Feb 2012 at 18:52

Vista is fine tbh, though Windows 7 is just smashingly good. There isn't much point in 4GB kits when 8GB kits are so cheap, but then you'd need a 64bit OS. You can install Vista 64bit with your license key to save some cash. Windows 8 is on the horizon if that bothers you, but there is plenty of life left in 7

Cupra · 18 Feb 2012 at 20:43

d_brennen said:
Vista is fine tbh, though Windows 7 is just smashingly good. There isn't much point in 4GB kits when 8GB kits are so cheap, but then you'd need a 64bit OS. You can install Vista 64bit with your license key to save some cash. Windows 8 is on the horizon if that bothers you, but there is plenty of life left in 7

wheres the cheap 8gb kits of ddr2?