Anyone have a trick to speed up load times?

[Seobel]

Playing with a friend, loading times take forever for me but not him [granted I have weaker specs]. Anyone know how to times up in anyway?

[Black Jesus]

Close any unnescessary programs on your PC, reboot it before playing, make sure Steam isn't downloading anything or installing anything, Chkdsk and defrag your HDD, honestly speaking to get meaningful gains in loading time: Upgrade your HDD, add more memory, get a better CPU. Those are all involved in the process of loading and unloading game assets into and from memory. Also upgrade your GPU.

[TKTom]

I imagine having the stronger machine host would speed it up.

Just how much longer does it take you (roughly) and what are the specs of your machine? It may be as simple as a defrag on your hard drive.

EDIT: Ninja'd. Advice above is good, but it's worth checking your actual specs.

[Zelxios]

loading times are nothing for me the game is my loading screen but yea as mentioned more proccessing and your internet connection also factors in as well for me its quite surprising since i can upload videos and still play online

yes i know upload and download speeds are different but on my net its the same and this is the only multiplaye game where i can upload stuff and not have time travel like lag

[Seobel]

Can't upgrade this laptop, but thanks for the advice. Shame, I thought there would be an option like for Dead Island where you could set a file to read-only for faster loading.

[Black Jesus]

Originally posted by qtKuero:

Can't upgrade this laptop, but thanks for the advice. Shame, I thought there would be an option like for Dead Island where you could set a file to read-only for faster loading.

Well no one can stop you from setting the game files read only but it may have unintended side effects if you do. You can try it and see what happens.

[Seobel]

Originally posted by Black Jesus:

Well no one can stop you from setting the game files read only but it may have unintended side effects if you do. You can try it and see what happens.

If I knew what I was doing I would, but I'd rather play it safe

[Black Jesus]

Originally posted by qtKuero:

Originally posted by Black Jesus:

Well no one can stop you from setting the game files read only but it may have unintended side effects if you do. You can try it and see what happens.

If I knew what I was doing I would, but I'd rather play it safe

Go to the game's directory under steam and right click the file(s) in question go to properties and check off read only.

[Darkness]

What are your system specs?

The general possible upgrade is that you could use a SSD, it usually is possible to put those on a laptop, and its write/read speeds are at least 10 times faster AFAIK.

Still, I'd like to have your system specs to know if it would help.

If you have little RAM, closing background applications would ensure most of it is free for the game.

If you have little processor, there's little to do... closing background applications that would use processor at all, disabling antiviruses, whatever... but it's risky.

If you have a processor with 64bit support and is using a 32bit OS, you could install a 64 bit os, which would in theory end up makign things faster, making the processor more efficient.

On game settings, you could try using lower resolution and settings. If the game is done properly, it'll make it use low-res textures or even low-poly model replacements, which are much smaller, so are faster to load. But it depends on the game.

If running windows before Vista (XP and bellow), you could use a program to free your RAM before running the game. You should also defrag your HD if it's the case (vista and beyond usually defrags automatically).

Also, if the game is really using Peer to Peer connection, theoretically the person with better PC should always be the host, as it'll always process much more information and load more resources than the clients, but it really depends on how it's set up.