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[Cozarkian]

Win 7

Dual-core 2.13 GHz

GeForce 9800 GSM

x7200 RPM HDD



I hardly notice load times. I"m guessing you either have driver issues or a very slow HDD. As for drivers, I'm actually not using the latest Nvidia driver. I have the second newest version, because updating the driver caused the character creator to crash when I was using my TV as a display. That might be an issue with my laptop, though, as my manufacturer hasn't updated their website with Nvidia's latest driver (and there might be a reason for that).

[IspectreI7]

OP:



Try disabling some graphical features in Win7 (especially Aero) and stop some non-needed services that will continue running in the background. Those AMD procs are good, but can get bottled up due to a slightly older architecture. Shut down some un-needed processes as well.



As some other folks have mentioned... you might want to look at your HDD.

[Scimal]

Drroz69 wrote...

Anyone else having issues with EXTREMELY long load times?  I'm literally waiting 5 to as long as 8 minutes to load new areas.  Anyone else have these issues?

Running dual nvidia 8800 gts
phenom 9600 BE 2.3ghz quadcore
4gb ram
Win7 x64

It's rather annoying.

It's probably your HDD.

If you have a standard 5400RPM HDD, you're going to be lagging behind the 7200RPM and the (very noisy) 10,000RPM Raptors.

If you have a 7200RPM HDD, then your system is bottlenecking somewhere else. It may be your processor at that point.

[Gvaz]

I get about 30 seconds to a minute 30 seconds.

Phenom II X3 720 BE
4gb ddr2 ram
512mb 8800gts
all sata hard drives
win 7 pro x64

Modifié par GvazElite, 04 novembre 2009 - 04:05 .

[akcorr]

How much free space do you have on the drive/s you Dragon Age installed on? Have you defraged that drive lately?

[Gvaz]

IspectreI7 wrote...

OP:

Try disabling some graphical features in Win7 (especially Aero) and stop some non-needed services that will continue running in the background. Those AMD procs are good, but can get bottled up due to a slightly older architecture. Shut down some un-needed processes as well.

As some other folks have mentioned... you might want to look at your HDD.

Disabling aero is actually a bad idea since that puts more strain on the CPU since the UI is graphically rendered. seeing how graphics card ram is faster than any ram on your mother board, I would say the point is either large fragmentation, or too many programs in the background, or slow hard drives

[Gixxerdude]

I have windows 7 64bit and it takes about 3/4 seconds to load a new area or cutscene, its very quick..



Take a look at your SATA drivers.



Win7 x64

I7 @ 3.4

6gb ram

2x GTX275s

2x Seagate 500gb drives (not in raid)

[ooonooo904]

I've had extreme load times too.



Vista Home Premium, 64x

Core 2 duo, t9300 @ 2.5ghz x2

6gb ram

solid state hard drives.

SLi nvidia GeForce 9800M GT, 512mb x 2



What the heck is going on?

[Grandsun]

I have a problem too, 5-10 minute for some map and now 20 minute passed and it still loading

what wrong with us?



Win7 64Bit

4GB RAM

Phenom 9500

Geforce 9600GT

[cocomoe1]

No load issues here.

Windows 7 Ultimate on a 1 year old vista os.

qx6850 oc'd to 3.8ghz, 8 gig ram, 4870x2 (2gig), raid 0 hard drive array.

[flungmuk]

I too have very long load time. 5-10 min
New HD with a fresh install of Win7 HP 64.
Phenom X4 9600 (2.3Ghz)
3GB ram
1TB 7200rpm HD sata (With over 900gb free sapce, defraged, error checked)
Radeon 4850 with the newest Ati drivers.

I have gfx at max, AA at x2. I haven't lowered settings yet as the only graphical slow down I've had was in the tower fight.

I dont think the load times are graphics related, I suspect the bottle neck is with the cpu or ram.
I'm going to try turning off things tonight when I get home to see if that helps.

If that dosnt work, I might put the old 500gb drive back in and format back to Vista home 32bit to see if that makes a difference.

I'm not OC'ed at all, and my fans are not kicking into overdrive when it loads new areas. So I don't think she's (yes my computer is a she, so's my bicycle, motorcyle and laptop)being overly taxed, just bottle necked somewhere.

Modifié par flungmuk, 04 novembre 2009 - 04:47 .

[Droz69]

I've got a 7200rpm sata drive, so I doubt that's the issue. Everything else runs smooth. I'm gonna try the nvidia beta drivers when I get home. Oh, and my OS install is fresh, less than a month, full version of win 7 ultimate. Doubt it's a defrag issue, though I'll look into that if all else fails. I could see SLI being an issue, or perhaps there is some wierd issue with the phenoms in my family, as it looks like others with similar processors are having that same issues. We'll see, and I'll let everyone know tonight if I can fix it and what I did to fix it.

[Ezikial]

Had this same problem actually. Installed the game, started downloading DLC and started playing, and got so iritated at the long load times I restarted my computer. Played with the settings for a little bit, until I realized it had nothing to do with the settings; my load times shortened drastically when I stopped downloading DLC. Confirmed this by testing it with DLC downloading and when it wasn't, and I haven't had a problem since.

Edit: I restarted the downloads and just let them finish while I checked over the game guide. Once they were done I restarted my computer and didn't have another long load time. Just for further clarification

Modifié par Ezikial, 04 novembre 2009 - 04:58 .

[Droz69]

Ezikial wrote...

Had this same problem actually. Installed the game, started downloading DLC and started playing, and got so iritated at the long load times I restarted my computer. Played with the settings for a little bit, until I realized it had nothing to do with the settings; my load times shortened drastically when I stopped downloading DLC. Confirmed this by testing it with DLC downloading and when it wasn't, and I haven't had a problem since.

Edit: I restarted the downloads and just let them finish while I checked over the game guide. Once they were done I restarted my computer and didn't have another long load time. Just for further clarification

interesting to note, though I don't believe I've had any DLC downloading, though I could be mistaken, unless the DLC was taking HOURS to download for some reason.  I'll check on that too.

[flungmuk]

Ditto, DLC's had all finished for me before I started the game.

I'm wondering if its the windows drivers for things like storage controlers, mobo and stuff.

It is a clean install after all. Something else to check anyway.

[IspectreI7]

GvazElite wrote...

IspectreI7 wrote...

OP:

Try disabling some graphical features in Win7 (especially Aero) and stop some non-needed services that will continue running in the background. Those AMD procs are good, but can get bottled up due to a slightly older architecture. Shut down some un-needed processes as well.

As some other folks have mentioned... you might want to look at your HDD.

Disabling aero is actually a bad idea since that puts more strain on the CPU since the UI is graphically rendered. seeing how graphics card ram is faster than any ram on your mother board, I would say the point is either large fragmentation, or too many programs in the background, or slow hard drives

Misspoke... I was referring to disabling tranparency in Aero. Some games are known not to trigger the background OS disabling that feature. Just something to the OP to try... though that really shouldn't be the problem. It might be that he has a first generation Phenom and those are known to have a lot of on-chip memory controller issues. 


OP: What MB do you have and what is the BIOS version? You  might need to update your BIOS as that should address some of the TLB issues AMD had with the first-gen 9600s.

[Alizar-]

Win 7 shouldn't have a problem playing it. I run about 30 seconds to load with max settings.

4 Gigs 1333Mhz

4850 512MB

Phenom II BE 720 OC



I will also say off the topic post that the graphics are great to me.. Maybe its just me but it "fits" the game perfectly

[Khemitude]

I had extremely fast load times when i first started playing, but whenever i play now the load times are very long probably around 2 or minutes long for me.

[IspectreI7]

Khemitude wrote...

I had extremely fast load times when i first started playing, but whenever i play now the load times are very long probably around 2 or minutes long for me.

Steam or hard-copy?

[K K Slider]

Might be a memory issue. Try re-booting and see if that helps.

[IspectreI7]

flungmuk wrote...

I too have very long load time. 5-10 min
New HD with a fresh install of Win7 HP 64.
Phenom X4 9600 (2.3Ghz)
3GB ram
1TB 7200rpm HD sata (With over 900gb free sapce, defraged, error checked)
Radeon 4850 with the newest Ati drivers.

I have gfx at max, AA at x2. I haven't lowered settings yet as the only graphical slow down I've had was in the tower fight.

I dont think the load times are graphics related, I suspect the bottle neck is with the cpu or ram.
I'm going to try turning off things tonight when I get home to see if that helps.

If that dosnt work, I might put the old 500gb drive back in and format back to Vista home 32bit to see if that makes a difference.

I'm not OC'ed at all, and my fans are not kicking into overdrive when it loads new areas. So I don't think she's (yes my computer is a she, so's my bicycle, motorcyle and laptop)being overly taxed, just bottle necked somewhere.

Same issue as with OP. Same processor. That processor type is known to have memory read/write and access issues as it was AMD's first attempt at an on-processor memory controller.

There is a fix, but unless you're on Linux, you have to download a BIOS update from AMD. Was yours a first generation (i.e. initial release 2 years ago)?

[flungmuk]

IspectreI7 wrote...

flungmuk wrote...

I too have very long load time. 5-10 min
New HD with a fresh install of Win7 HP 64.
Phenom X4 9600 (2.3Ghz)
3GB ram
1TB 7200rpm HD sata (With over 900gb free sapce, defraged, error checked)
Radeon 4850 with the newest Ati drivers.

I have gfx at max, AA at x2. I haven't lowered settings yet as the only graphical slow down I've had was in the tower fight.

I dont think the load times are graphics related, I suspect the bottle neck is with the cpu or ram.
I'm going to try turning off things tonight when I get home to see if that helps.

If that dosnt work, I might put the old 500gb drive back in and format back to Vista home 32bit to see if that makes a difference.

I'm not OC'ed at all, and my fans are not kicking into overdrive when it loads new areas. So I don't think she's (yes my computer is a she, so's my bicycle, motorcyle and laptop)being overly taxed, just bottle necked somewhere.

Same issue as with OP. Same processor. That processor type is known to have memory read/write and access issues as it was AMD's first attempt at an on-processor memory controller.

There is a fix, but unless you're on Linux, you have to download a BIOS update from AMD. Was yours a first generation (i.e. initial release 2 years ago)?

Not sure the age, I'm going to assume its not 1st gen, I got the PC through a work deal Fall 2008.
Could be though, it is an Acer. Not at home atm to check, but I will look at getting a bios update.
Other posts on this topic are pointing towards memory leaks as well.
If mine and OPs CPU have an earlier onchip memory controler, I could see how something like that might effect us more and faster than others with new cpus. He fixed his with a reboot. (other post)
I'm also going to turn off some windows 7 services tonight too...Aero, Searching index and stuff like that.
Also, having 3gb ddr2 ram in a 64bit system could be slowing things down. Its still the stock ram and I'm willing to be Acer didn't put high end ram in the box.

New CPU and ram are doable if needed, I just get tired of going in and out of my case. (I fix PC's all day long, last thing I want to is to work on mine.)

[warmaku]

get a better HDD

[mittens]

I don't think I've had any load times over 30 seconds either and my machine is rather crap compared to todays boxes.



amd duel core something..

2gb ram

8800gts

7200rpm wd

xp sp3



snarf snarf....



mittens

[agrue]

Starts out slow and quickly moves towards insane (>1m loading to go through a door so I can walk for 10 seconds then load another door, wtf?).



W7-64, 8GB, some 7200RPMx1TB drive, tested with 8800GTX & 4870x2 (same results).



One wonders how this never showed up during in-house testing...