Normal night... get home from work...log in wait for loading screen when I see it loading.. go get frozen pizza... put in oven.. grab a shower.. pop open a beer take pizza from oven.. get back on computer.. game is usually ready to go..key word.. USUALLY....
Stuck on Loading Entities at 10-15 minutes and killed the task - Its not my computer or the connection as others have stated it is a coding issue. It would almost appear as if I was loading the entire world and all its entities (players-baskets-houses) at start instead of what every other game to date has done - which is load on the go as needed.
2 Weeks ago my load time was 2-3 minutes with 10-20 seconds entities loading time
Now its 15+ unknown load time - I can load any other game made to date and play a game in that time.
As I posted in a similar post about this, it's not the computer, or the bandwidth. I have a core i7 cpu, gtx 560 video card, 3 gigs of corsair low latency memory running Windows XP, and Velociraptor harddrives, still takes me 5 - 10 minutes to load Entities. What I DO notice is my download rate while loading entities is about 5k/s (even though my 10mbit connection is capable of 900 - 1000k/s), and if you check Task Manager, the game starts at around 1,000,000 K memory usage, and slowly works it's way to 1,250,000 K memory usage while Entities are loading, proving it's not a crash, computer issue, or bandwidth issue (at least not on the end user side .
That's really all I can explain the devs have to do the rest and figure out why it's happening, I'm not a coder just a computer tech =).
Hope that helps!
On a side note, and other thought. I have the exact some computer at another location on another ISP pushing 32mbit on the burst and averaging around 25mbit. Even though the bandwidth change doesn't seem to matter, I loaded this morning into that world on that computer in about a minute or so. The entities problem started for me about 2 days ago overall =).
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After crashing I noticed loading entities still taking a considerable amount of time tonight. However it downloaded at 15k/s this time, and it seems the memory for Xsyon.exe hit 1,381,000 K this time in task manager. Once the game loads it drops to about 534,700K, very weird =0.
Hello all
I am getting 5-30min load of entities i have just turned all the settings low to see if that makes a differnce . Not impressed at all especialy from a company that expects $ from us.
my pretty consistent experience is that I log in, taking 5-10 minutes, then get to what looks like into the world but with no message in the chat screen that says "Ani has entered the world" I can even type into the chat line of the client, though I'll get no echo. And then it kicks me to the splash login screen (vs. the launcher). Then I log in again, same deal, 1-3 more go rounds. So it can take me up to 40+ minutes (because I'll log in and go change laundry, read email, and generally do something to keep me from staring at a "loading [whatever]" message for 5-10 minutes), before I can log in.
So, we're talking about not hugely high settings on a vista SP2 dual core machine with 4gb of memory on a laptop with a nvidia dedicated chip. Since I generally don't care about fab graphics, this means that it's probably *not* taking so long because I'm loading rich assetts, and the crash to login (often repeatedly) means I don't even bother to try to log in a lot of times.