How I deal with BF3 load times

How I deal with load times in BF3. When I select join on a server, I then

put on my shoes, go to the car, drive to the pub, have a beer, get a

couple to take home, go home, make a sandwich, have another beer, releive

myself of the first 2 beers, then check to see if bf3 is loaded. Rinse

and repeat! Very Happy

pdXjoe wrote:

How I deal with load times in BF3. When I select join on a server, I then

put on my shoes, go to the car, drive to the pub, have a beer, get a

couple to take home, go home, make a sandwich, have another beer, releive

myself of the first 2 beers, then check to see if bf3 is loaded. Rinse

and repeat! Very Happy

I hear ya on that!!! It takes entirely too long to load these damned maps. Hopefully the Crucial M4 I'm getting Wednesday will make my 'click on server, hit the restroom, then play BF3' habit a thing of the past. ^_^

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autobot wrote:

pdXjoe wrote:

How I deal with load times in BF3. When I select join on a server, I then

put on my shoes, go to the car, drive to the pub, have a beer, get a

couple to take home, go home, make a sandwich, have another beer, releive

myself of the first 2 beers, then check to see if bf3 is loaded. Rinse

and repeat! Very Happy

I hear ya on that!!! It takes entirely too long to load these damned maps. Hopefully the Crucial M4 I'm getting Wednesday will make my 'click on server, hit the restroom, then play BF3' habit a thing of the past. ^_^

I have an M4. It takes me about 8 seconds of load times per map. So I'm curious as to what this wait time you fella's are talking about is.

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EQWoody wrote:

autobot wrote:

pdXjoe wrote:

How I deal with load times in BF3. When I select join on a server, I then

put on my shoes, go to the car, drive to the pub, have a beer, get a

couple to take home, go home, make a sandwich, have another beer, releive

myself of the first 2 beers, then check to see if bf3 is loaded. Rinse

and repeat! Very Happy

I hear ya on that!!! It takes entirely too long to load these damned maps. Hopefully the Crucial M4 I'm getting Wednesday will make my 'click on server, hit the restroom, then play BF3' habit a thing of the past. ^_^

I have an M4. It takes me about 8 seconds of load times per map. So I'm curious as to what this wait time you fella's are talking about is.

I have 1066 DDR2 and I don't have crazy long load times, I don't think they are about 8 seconds, but well under 30.

What kind of connection speed?

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NightFox45 wrote:

EQWoody wrote:

autobot wrote:

pdXjoe wrote:

How I deal with load times in BF3. When I select join on a server, I then

put on my shoes, go to the car, drive to the pub, have a beer, get a

couple to take home, go home, make a sandwich, have another beer, releive

myself of the first 2 beers, then check to see if bf3 is loaded. Rinse

and repeat! Very Happy

I hear ya on that!!! It takes entirely too long to load these damned maps. Hopefully the Crucial M4 I'm getting Wednesday will make my 'click on server, hit the restroom, then play BF3' habit a thing of the past. ^_^

I have an M4. It takes me about 8 seconds of load times per map. So I'm curious as to what this wait time you fella's are talking about is.

I have 1066 DDR2 and I don't have crazy long load times, I don't think they are about 8 seconds, but well under 30.

What kind of connection speed?

That's probably it. I'm on a 35MB line.

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I think he's speaking of the initial first time load up. It takes awhile for me.

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pdXjoe wrote:

How I deal with load times in BF3. When I select join on a server, I then

put on my shoes, go to the car, drive to the pub, have a beer, get a

couple to take home, go home, make a sandwich, have another beer, releive

myself of the first 2 beers, then check to see if bf3 is loaded. Rinse

and repeat! Very Happy

lol ... when I read "get a couple to take home" I thought:

"WHAT?!?! Why? Is he going to:
1) murder the couple
2) get kinky
or what?
Why is he only making 1 sandwich when he just brought a couple people home? Are they not hungry too?"

Then I realized it was a couple of beers.. makes more sense now... lol

CG || Piso_mojado wrote:

pdXjoe wrote:

How I deal with load times in BF3. When I select join on a server, I then

put on my shoes, go to the car, drive to the pub, have a beer, get a

couple to take home, go home, make a sandwich, have another beer, releive

myself of the first 2 beers, then check to see if bf3 is loaded. Rinse

and repeat! Very Happy

lol ... when I read "get a couple to take home" I thought:

"WHAT?!?! Why? Is he going to:
1) murder the couple
2) get kinky
or what?
Why is he only making 1 sandwich when he just brought a couple people home? Are they not hungry too?"

Then I realized it was a couple of beers.. makes more sense now... lol

I was on your wave.

The initial load time is what I'm speaking of. Once in server, load times are good. Very Happy

I think it is a server side issue. Cool

BF3 definitely ftw with long load times! btw, they sell beer to go at my pub but if the load times were longer, bringing home a couple, say Swedish blonde twins, to pass the time with, maybe play a game of twister! lol Laughing

I think it's more about disk speed than RAM or other system specs. I know on BF2, which also had load times best measured on a geologic scale, at LANs sitting next to Jeep he would get into game in at least half the time that it took me. My system was faster in every way (processor, RAM, video card, etc.) but he had a 10krpm velociraptor HD and I had 7200rpm "whatever was on sale".

Nowadays, I have an SSD and I don't consider BF3 load time to be slow in any way. Perhaps 10sec tops from "picked a server which miraculously did not fill up in the time since the server browser scanned it" to in-game. That is still more time than it takes for me to get killed once in-game, but it's not bad.

Try upgrading your PC Wink

I get into servers within seconds... (normally top 5 to load if changing maps)

I run a single solid state drive that isn't considered fast by today standards but still much fast then any old school hard disk drive Razz

If you upgraded to a SSD you would delete this thread... if you still have problems loading then you just don't know how to operate a computer and should just uninstall BF3. Laughing

CG || Piso_mojado wrote:

pdXjoe wrote:

How I deal with load times in BF3. When I select join on a server, I then

put on my shoes, go to the car, drive to the pub, have a beer, get a

couple to take home, go home, make a sandwich, have another beer, releive

myself of the first 2 beers, then check to see if bf3 is loaded. Rinse

and repeat! Very Happy

lol ... when I read "get a couple to take home" I thought:

"WHAT?!?! Why? Is he going to:
1) murder the couple
2) get kinky
or what?
Why is he only making 1 sandwich when he just brought a couple people home? Are they not hungry too?"

Then I realized it was a couple of beers.. makes more sense now... lol

Thats great

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With my 2 Kingston HyperX SSD's in Raid 0 I normally wait in the server for awhile while everyone else loads :-/

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My load times average 60 sec. Not really long, but long enough for me to make a joke about it! Laughing

I feel old, My load times are utterly to long. But i mean im running an older system and no upgrades much anytime soon so its understandable but gets annoying when it takes me atleast 2 and half 3 minutes to load a map lol Worse on first load up D:

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Nickbaldwin86 wrote:

Try upgrading your PC Wink

I get into servers within seconds... (normally top 5 to load if changing maps)

I run a single solid state drive that isn't considered fast by today standards but still much fast then any old school hard disk drive Razz

If you upgraded to a SSD you would delete this thread... if you still have problems loading then you just don't know how to operate a computer and should just uninstall BF3. Laughing

+1

I upgraded from a WD Black to a Crucial M4 SSD. I see no difference in load times for BF3. All my other games are crazy fast but BF3 still takes the same crazy amount of time. I just assumed it was a Sever side problem.

I am running an Crucial m4 128gb sata 3 drive and even after a fresh install of windows it still takes 10-30 seconds. But being that its doing so much I guess I am the only one that expects it.

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i dont wait vary long for my system to load bf3, a minute is tops, i am running two 500 GB hdd's no raid they are both 7200 rpm drives, 4 soon to be 8 when the second pair of gskill ripjaws arrives in the mail a core i3 2100 @ 3.10 GHz gigayte nvidia geforce 550ti msi p67-g45 b3 motherboard raidmax 730 watt partially modular psu and to cool the cpu i have the noctua nh-d14 cooler, it makes my i3 wish it had a coat or some kind of fire it runs so cold. then i have a asus blu-ray rom drive and asus dvd burner. all stuffed in a lian-li lancool pc-k62 "dragonlord" mid tower case. I honestly will never buy another case again i love this thing so much. unless the atx standard changes and newer motherboards wont fit. then i will buy a case from lian-li that looks like this one.

Fightingfalcon wrote:

i dont wait vary long for my system to load bf3, a minute is tops, i am running two 500 GB hdd's no raid they are both 7200 rpm drives, 4 soon to be 8 when the second pair of gskill ripjaws arrives in the mail a core i3 2100 @ 3.10 GHz gigayte nvidia geforce 550ti msi p67-g45 b3 motherboard raidmax 730 watt partially modular psu and to cool the cpu i have the noctua nh-d14 cooler, it makes my i3 wish it had a coat or some kind of fire it runs so cold. then i have a asus blu-ray rom drive and asus dvd burner. all stuffed in a lian-li lancool pc-k62 "dragonlord" mid tower case. I honestly will never buy another case again i love this thing so much. unless the atx standard changes and newer motherboards wont fit. then i will buy a case from lian-li that looks like this one.

Whoa.... Take a breath son!

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