Why is HL2 (TF2) so slow to load & navigate...

[NeilF]

It takes AGES to load - can't think of any other game that takes as long. And then stupid things like if at the end of a map you happen to press ESC you get a black screen for like 20-30 seconds... Very clunky!

 

[NeilF]

System specs?

My machine was down to 1GB (1GB failed) when I first got the game, and it was terrible at loading, switching between maps, etc etc.

Got it up to 4GB the next day, and everything loaded incredibly quickly.

See sig! Oh!
Ask the mod who removed it! Oh!

3.2ghz with 2gb or ram!

 

[NeilF]

Looking a TF2...

Around 30 seconds or so to get the the TF2 screen/menu from clicking it in steam...

And probably about the same again to then connect/load a game...

 

[NeilF]

Defrag your GCFs.

/thread

Can you point to something about this?

 

[NeilF]

Tombo -- Ahhhh!! Thanks!

 

[NeilF]

In Source games you can usually disable the 3D menu background (the tweak guide on www.tweakguides.com should show how), which will improve initial load times quite a bit.

It says to do that with -console...

Now in TFC ~ for me does the console, and in TF2 it doesn't? How do I allow console via steam? Or do I need to use a dedicated TF2 icon with -console in it?