This is an odd issue, but Mass Effect 2's load times are very erratic between sessions of the game for me.
E.g. sometimes I'll start the game and load times will be very quick for the entire time I'm playing the game until I quit. Other times the loading will be very slow for the full time it's running. I'll never get fast or slow loads mixed in the same session of the game, it's just like sometimes the game starts in "fast mode" and other times it starts in "slow mode."
The differences between the "fast mode" and "slow mode" is well outside margin of error. When the game starts with fast loads, it takes literally less than 3 seconds to go between decks on the ship, the animation barely has time to load. When the game starts in "slow mode" it can take 20-30 seconds to go between decks, that's a huge difference. Loading for landing on planets or stations are similarly affected. It seems pretty much random when one "mode" occurs; I can quit the game, restart it, and seemingly get different loading behavior each time.
I thought maybe my hard drive was dying, but I run diagnotistics tools and everything checks out ok. Also I've been playing other games and ME2 is the only game where I've experienced these wildly inconsistents load time. I've ran an optimizing defragger and that didn't have any affect.
Has anyone else experienced something like this? Know a solution?
My system:
Core 2 Duo E8400 (@ stock clocks)
4GB DDR2 1066
GeForce GTX 285
Creative X-Fi Titanium
250GB Seagate 7200.10 hard drive
Vista Home Premium 64-bit
Erratic load times between game sessions
Débuté par
Sweetz
, mars 23 2010 04:56
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Posté 23 mars 2010 - 04:56
#2
Posté 23 mars 2010 - 05:12
Sounds like RAM. I'd open task manager, the performance tab and stretch it as wide as possible.
Then play the game, if you get a "slow mode" check the numbers in task manager by ALT+Tabbing and perhaps also peak at how much memory ME2 is using under Processes.
Dragon Age and even KOTOR both had loading or memory issues that were fixed by restarting the game.
Then play the game, if you get a "slow mode" check the numbers in task manager by ALT+Tabbing and perhaps also peak at how much memory ME2 is using under Processes.
Dragon Age and even KOTOR both had loading or memory issues that were fixed by restarting the game.





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