Why does my friends PC load MW2 faster than mine?

Ryan111

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Right, I had my friend round yesterday and today and while playing some MW2 I noticed his loaded about twice as fast as mine and I can for the life of me work out why.

Firstly, his spec;
PII 955 @ 3.2 (stock)
Asus M4A79XTD
4GB Corsair 1333mhz
9600GSO 768mb
F3 1TB
Windows XP Pro 32bit

my spec;
i5 750 @ 3.6ghz
Gigabyte UD5
4GB G-Skill Ripjaw 1600mhz
Crossfire 5770's
2 x F3 500GB Raid0
Windows 7 64bit

Surely, my PC should load faster? Or at least a reasonable amount slower, his shouldnt load twice as fast surely?
 
Assuming your both using the same settings:

It might be XP is faster at loading possibly.

His windows installation might be newer than yours with less bloat or less fragmentation on the disc.

If his installation is aligned better to the faster part of the HDD platter he would get lower overall seek times and faster transfer times - RAID especially can spread out data over the disc(s) increasing seek times and reducing transfer rate.

Are you using a virus scanner or similiar? - if hes not there could be an overhead difference here.
 
We both have similar settings. Same resolution, I have the detail at max, his isnt quite max but I wouldnt of thought that would be it.

My installation was done about 2/3 months ago, his was around 6 months

I thought about the RAID being the problem, but could work out why. I get much fast read/write speeds in crystal disk mark etc.

He uses AVG, I dont have an Anti Virus

And I would hope his wasnt better than mine, mine cost a lot more! :(
 
Was in exactly the same situation as you a year or so back. I found it was usually a driver issue or disk fragmentation however it can be just how you have your system setup. If you tried it with a single gpu and no raid you may find it's quicker in certain areas (not many) such as loading as they're running independently. I wouldn't recommend this though as it's a great setup and in game you should definitely be clocking in more fps than your mate - that's where it matters ;)
 
Depends what settings are different - some make a bigger difference loading than others.

I put my MW2 files onto an SSD from a fast RAID setup and my MW2 load times are now over 3x faster.
 
Nocky24 said:
Was in exactly the same situation as you a year or so back. I found it was usually a driver issue or disk fragmentation however it can be just how you have your system setup. If you tried it with a single gpu and no raid you may find it's quicker in certain areas (not many) such as loading as they're running independently. I wouldn't recommend this though as it's a great setup and in game you should definitely be clocking in more fps than your mate - that's where it matters ;)
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Yeah, I get far more FPS than him. (Havent actually seen it dip below 91 which MW2 is limited to)
 
Ryan111 said:
I am seriously considering it :L I would need around 60-70Gb though, which means its expensive :(
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I moved just my MW2 files (used filesystem links so it would work with the STEAM install) onto a cheapy patriot SSD - certainly sped up load times :D
 
I know where 40Gb has gone now. On 4 games. Whats that all about? I only have Call of Duty 4, World at War, MW2 and BF BC2... I think the MW2 files are around 12GB on their own!
 
Would it be anything to do with the Raid0 being split into 2 partitions? I have a 460GB partition for the OS + any apps/games and another 460Gb partition for my Documents/Data. The reason for this was to seperate my Data from the OS which made backing up to the Carviar Black easier... :\
 
generally the fastest part of the disk is the start, so conventional wisdoms states. So if you've loaded mw2 at the end of the disk it could be the reason.

You might get better performance by not using raid, and dedicateing the start of disk 2 to your games, the start of disk 1 to you os, and then the rest for docs etc.
 
I am sorely tempted to stick the two F3's in my server in RAID1, buy a SSD for windows + games and use the WD black for Docs. That way I keep all back-ups, and get faster load times...

hmm, now which SSD? :\

Or, do I do as above, but make two partitions on the WD black (65 and 400 or similar) and use the 65 for OS + programmes and 400 for Data then buy a smaller SSD just for games?

hmmm, decisions...

Would I see any real performance loss between the two above?
 
No, I just dont see why my game loads soo slow. Its quite painfully slow sometimes. And it confussed me why his loaded fast than mine on a supposedly lower spec PC. Things are different on BC2 though, I load maps about 1.5x faster than him, which is what I would expect....
 
I guess, but its rather annoying waiting for a game to load. I host a fair amount online, and my friend got to awaiting connection 11 before I loaded once today, it usually gets to around 9 before I load. Which is terrible really, I am normally one of the last people to load into the game and generally by the time I have loaded, people have already spawned in and are playing (when im not host)
 
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