Very slow to connect

[rabcaz]

OOC :

Worth nothing is that most of the laptops harddrives spins at 4200rpm, which makes read / load speeds increase thus it takes longer to read the information into the RAM. And if there is little RAM it will start swapping, thus writing memory info into a file on the harddrive and there is even more work for the already "slow" disk to do.

//Drakfot
//OOC

[rushin]

slightly derail of topic but on a level from 0-10, how much do you rely on graphics ingame as a contributer a good gameplay experence? (open general question), just wondering

new topic maybe? but i cant resist answering.

i would have said very little until i upgraded and moved from min to max settings, it's a different game.

[kurita]

new topic maybe? but i cant resist answering.

i would have said very little until i upgraded and moved from min to max settings, it's a different game.

thought the same, for me its just the other way round, burned 2 of my 3 RAM(1536MB>512MB) and... OUCH!!! bigtime!!!

gone from all medium to max settings down to all min is a real spoilsport for me...

thats why i´m not playin as much as i want to...

but going from 30-50s on loadscreen to 10+min isn´t quit fun and being used to a overwhelmingly lush´n ritch enviroment to a nearly WoW like one... *sighs*

and to top it all... money for new hardware isn´t coming round till next year... late next year... if i´m lucky.

sometimes it shucks to be me

[raisrev1]

OOC :

Worth nothing is that most of the laptops harddrives spins at 4200rpm, which makes read / load speeds increase thus it takes longer to read the information into the RAM. And if there is little RAM it will start swapping, thus writing memory info into a file on the harddrive and there is even more work for the already "slow" disk to do.

//Drakfot
//OOC

Very true however, Ram, proccessor, and Video card will make up for the Laptop hardrives immensly. My laptop loads and runs Ryzom very fast and smoothly, *note to sam when he reads this, Yes I make absolutly sure my homework for the day is DONE, before I log in at all*, anyways the specs are:

2 GHZ Dual core
2 gb ram
Nvidia 7900
200 gb hard drive with spin speed of 5400

Takes from char select screen to in game about just under 2 mins roughly, depends on what other programs I ran earlier to do my College school work. and I can run at max details to the Moniors max rez of 1400x900....(for those who would want to know my average FPS is over 60)

But back on topic a bit, Uppgrading the ram on your computer will do you a World of good, and I do mean it, adding another 512 can cut the time in half quite often.

[ajay78]

Here is me thinking that getting from clicking the play Ryzom icon to actually playing the game which took 1 min or so was slow. How wrong was I.

My system specs:
AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ 2.2Ghz
2Gb of RAM
7900GT graphics card with 512Mb memory.
600Gb hardrive, (over 342 free).

Kindest regards,

-Ajay-

Quote of the Day
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

[acridiel]

Appart from Dual Core 3,8 Ghz exactly the same System
Man, I have to upgrade, takes almost two minutes to reach Ingame *LOL*
It´s funny, I noticed that even Winamp can slow down the "connection", if I aktivate it (and listen to music) before Ryzom it takes about 2 minutes to reach Ingame, if not its about half the time. *LOL*
Ryzom sure IS demanding on the specs.

Acridiel

[aardnebb]

Cheap speedup fix for _everyone_ in loading times:

Defrag your hard disk. Like... regularly.

Once a week _minimum_. I do not kid you on how much difference this makes.

[rothimar]

Disk Cleanup, then Defrag...

I run on almost max settings with:

AMD Athlon XP 1.7ghz
1gb DDR-Ram
nVidia GeForce 5200 video card (128x128)
Broadband internet access.

The load screen takes about 4-5 minutes... but I run the game smoothly once in. I run disk cleanup after every software install, and defrag every 3-4 days. I repeat defrag til most of the little red lines go away.

[ajay78]

LoL Rothimar, that's the purpose of defrag, I love the way you simplify things

Kindest regards,

-Ajay-

Quote of the Day
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

[jamela]

Okay, I cannot resist any longer. For anyone that has no idea what Zahan and the others are talking about, complete instructions may be found here.

[size=-4]Many thanks to moboid for posting the link in the first place, which gave me and my colleagues so many laughs [/size]