Too slow to load maps: unplayable

[apoll]

Hi. The maps are taking forever to load: happy to wait a few seconds or so, but this is a game breaking thing for me: takes what seems ages to load. Makes it unplayable as far as I'm concerned. Developers, please sort this asap.

Apoll

[Cyber_Chupacabra]

Correct me if I`m wrong but isnt the map loading speed tied to the user internet connection as its actively downloading hi res images as we zoom in?
Map loading speed is all over the place for me.

[apoll]

Ok? So.... it down;loads from the internet as we zoom? If so, really??! Of course that's going to be as slow as a wet week, even with a relatively fast connection as I have. Surely if you've bought the game, you've bought all the components to sit on your drive necessary to have an enjoyable game experience, not be subject to the [let's face it] vagaries of an internet connection which can vary in speed widely over the course of a session? It ain't working for me: makes it unplayable frankly. Refund unless sorted I'm afraid: doesn't work as advertised. But I do hope they can come up with better method.

[Gerd]

What if there is no internet connection?

[Maki Nishikino]

Gerd eredeti hozzászólása:

What if there is no internet connection?

You can download the tiles at a lower resolution (right now the link to download them all isn't working though).

[orkuqui]

Same here, too slow to download the maps, and I have fast internet speed and fast PC.

[apoll]

Ok Maki. I see that (but for Tacview, right?). My point is that I bought a game with promised high res tiles: that's the deal. Not low res. They did not say it would take ages to load in game because it had to be loaded via internet every game. Or at least, me, the average user, did not register that if it was indeed a cautionary note in some of the advertising for the game. Sorry, but for me, the slowness in the load is making the game unplayable. Annoys me every time I have to wait 15 or more seconds to load an island or coastline. Yep, I'm used to near instant display in my games! And btw, what's the funny dark circles around the islands that alternate between blurry mess and dark rings? Not happy Jan!

[Maki Nishikino]

The high res tiles total out to like half a TB I think. You want to download and store that on your drive?

[ParanoidAndroid]

I agree, I refunded due to this. The game is good but the map loading is horrendous. I have superfast broadband and they still take an age. I suspect the real issue is that the servers the map layers are being downloaded from cannot handle the high amount of traffic during busy periods. Even the layers that are supposedly cached are still taking ages when I revisit an area in the same scenario. It's a shame the the network infrastructure this fantastic simulation relies on could potentially ruin the game's appeal for many.

If there is an improvement in this area I may revisit it in future. I hope the devs take this issue seriously, as I'm sure during their beta testing the low loads made it all appear ok. Now that more people are hitting the servers for real, the issues are becoming more apparent.

Like I say, the caching also seems to be making no difference.

[ParanoidAndroid]

Bumped as it seems to be being ignored.

[guanotwozero]

Right now I'm using the BMNG and Border layers at wide view, and only when I zoom in to a small area do I add other map layers e.g. Sentinel sat. That way I find performance fine.

[Ballista]

Is it possible to download the hi-res maps regardless of size somewhere?

[Maki Nishikino]

Ballista eredeti hozzászólása:

Is it possible to download the hi-res maps regardless of size somewhere?

No.

[overkill]

You can use the old map that's instant, but that's 10year old tech...

The sentinal map should be downloadable even if it's 500gb or more, put it on a SSD and it should load almost instant.

Or download different zoomlevels, for example level 1 and 2 and if you need lvl 3 and up then use the download on command.

At least it should be an option for those who want it.

The new map is a big sellingpoint for the game but it's not well implemented IMO.

[Gerd]

I'm not seeing this, sure it takes 1/2 seconds to load but not 'ages', must be something wrong with your sistem. Anyway i tried the old map and it's non bad at all, i don't care for the graphics

[overkill]

Gerd eredeti hozzászólása:

I'm not seeing this, sure it takes 1/2 seconds to load but not 'ages', must be something wrong with your sistem. Anyway i tried the old map and it's non bad at all, i don't care for the graphics

If you like it the way it is then good for you.
Some people like driving oldtimers but most of us want new cars.

At the very least the game should use a mainlayer from sentinal.

As it is now when you zoom out, you see the old map with bits and pieces from sentinel, this is unacceptable IMO.