Speed up game loading times?

Muel

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Hey everyone, I'm just wondering how to speed up the loading times of games such as Grid and MW2?

My spec is in my sig, and everythings set to stock at the moment. I just loaded Grid with task manager open on my other monitor, and it's using around 30-40% CPU and roughly 2gb of my 4gb of ram.

Is there any way of monitoring all my hardware and seeing whats causing the bottleneck?
 
Yeh the graphics card is a bit weedy but actually does alright, it runs grid and MW2 at 1920x1200 pretty well, just need to have the anti-ailising turned down to x2 or x4. I'll be changing it for a 5850 or something in that area at some stage in the future.

SSD's are still way too expensive for me. :(

I've just tried overclocking the HT link from 2000mhz to 2200mhz, it might make a difference. :P I can't up the HT voltage though! It's stuck at stock, as soon as I push it up a notch in the BIOS is goes red. :(
 
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It's not CPU or RAM limited though, so I doubt that would make a lot of difference?

I guess one day I'll just go for an SSD and love the access speeds. At the moment though they're £300 for one of a usable size, which is just totally OTT, I'd rather just do the extra waiting whenever I play a game. :P
 
£300 spent on an SSD is a better investment than £300 spent on a GPU and people don't bat an eyelid when spending that kind of cash on a GPU. Buying my Corsair X128 has been the best investment I've made in years as far as PC upgrades go, everything is just so much faster, I'm even thinking of getting an SSD for my netbook, although it wont be an X128 I'm not made of cash.
 
Lets put it this way Windows 7 boots in 22 seconds instead of 50 seconds, and Far Cry 2 for example loads in 8 seconds instead of more like 45 seconds. Firefox starts in 2 seconds flat even with a shed load of add-ons installed and even if its the first time you started it since rebooting the PC (so there is no superfetch getting into the equation), that's damn fast if you ask me.
 
And then there is the complete silence with SSD's as well, I'll be extremely happy when large capacity drives (500gb) can be had for similar money to the X128, then I'll say bye bye to spinning metal for good, apart from my external backup drives which I only ever switch on when doing backups anyway.
 
Muel said:
as soon as I push it up a notch in the BIOS is goes red. :(
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When you say it goes red does it not work? or do the figures just go red?

If its the figures, its meant to do that as its outside of the stock volts but just ignore it!
 
Andydigital said:
And then there is the complete silence with SSD's as well.
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Yeah, I forgot to mention that, I came from a set of 36GB Raptors in RAID-0 which were the noisiest things inside my rig, they would grind and crunch whenever I tried to access them, but now with the pair of Kingston 40GB SSD's my system is as quiet as a mouse!!

That was probably one of the biggest bonuses for me tbh, getting rid of those Raptors.
 
mpj88 said:
When you say it goes red does it not work? or do the figures just go red?

If its the figures, its meant to do that as its outside of the stock volts but just ignore it!
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I did once, had to reset the CMOS. :(

Sounds like an SSD is the way to go, not for a good while yet though, £300 is just way too much for me to drop on one.

The loading times of Windows and games does bother me, but not £300 bother me. :P

I'd like to get my hard drives out of my desktop and just have an SSD though, then I could have a NAS, and loose the hard drive caddy from my case...

EDIT: Are there any that are particularly better than others? I reckon I could strech to £150, but I want at least 64gb.
 
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if you want the game to load faster and run faster if you go into task manager when the game is up, right click the game and click "go to process" then right click on the highlighted process and set the priority to realtime. This will make sure that the game takes priority over other functions such as any other files that are open, it helped me with some games and its something that you can easily try out for yourself, however, i will need to be done each time you load the game.
 
Akempster said:
if you want the game to load faster and run faster if you go into task manager when the game is up, right click the game and click "go to process" then right click on the highlighted process and set the priority to realtime. This will make sure that the game takes priority over other functions such as any other files that are open, it helped me with some games and its something that you can easily try out for yourself, however, i will need to be done each time you load the game.
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This shouldn't really be recommended as it can lead to the OS crashing as apps running under 'Realtime' take precedence over even critical system processes.
 
Tis a fresh install and I just analysed it with Defraggler the other day, (from the same makers of CCleaner), think it had 4% file fragmentation.

I reckon a 64gb+ PCI SSD is the way to go for me now, just have to wait for them to get cheaper. :P
 
u can always get samsung spin point 3 1tb its probably much faster what ever u got , and when prices for ssd drop u can add ssd later on
 
SSD are far too overpriced, 99 pound for a 30gb hard drive, not for me. i use sata with my system and its lightning, wouldnt ever spend that sort of money on a harddrive.
 
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