I bought this game earlier today and tried to play about an hour ago. As soon as I tried to play a game, even a single player game, the loading time is about 5-15 minutes, sometimes longer. The loading times of this game make it unplayable most of the time. Please tell my why this is happening and any ways to make it faster.
Very Long Loading Time
- Thread starter Squidden
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loading times on the 2.5 engine depend on 2 things:
1. Fragmentation. when was the last time you defragged your hard drive? this can slow down loading times a bunch. [url]http://www.defraggler.com/[/URL]
2. Texture settings and quality settings in general. If you have your texture settings cranked all the way up or moderately high, try lowering them a bit. there's no real difference between "ultra high" quality textures and "higher" quality textures. the higher the quality the longer it will take to load.
also, turning off unneeded lighting like coronas is one thing less that the engine has to load. though, don't turn off dynamic lighting or your flashlight wont work.
http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/www.defraggler.com
1. Fragmentation. when was the last time you defragged your hard drive? this can slow down loading times a bunch. [url]http://www.defraggler.com/[/URL]
2. Texture settings and quality settings in general. If you have your texture settings cranked all the way up or moderately high, try lowering them a bit. there's no real difference between "ultra high" quality textures and "higher" quality textures. the higher the quality the longer it will take to load.
also, turning off unneeded lighting like coronas is one thing less that the engine has to load. though, don't turn off dynamic lighting or your flashlight wont work.
http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/www.defraggler.com
Yes, it is on most levels. The only level that doesn't lag too much is KF-Farm.
Omar, I have all of the settings as low as I can get them and I defragged my hard drive about a week ago.
sounds like you just need a new computer sadly. though one last thing you should try is putting it on direct X mode and not direct x 9 if you haven't already.
My laptop is like that, takes like 3-10 minutes to load, and when it does it laggs a bit too much. I download small maps like KF-Deathpit and such, it laggs less and loads quicker. (Smaller map with less detail) It's because my laptop isn't something you're supposed to game on 
because until they're posted trying to diagnose a performance issue is only going to be based on speculation and assumption.
one thing that helps loading times is using a cpu accelerator.
[url]http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/CPU-Tweak/Mz-Cpu-Accelerator.shtml[/URL]
it makes the active window a higher priority then background processes. therefore using your ENTIRE cpu to load the map and thus making it load faster.
[url]http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/CPU-Tweak/Mz-Cpu-Accelerator.shtml[/URL]
it makes the active window a higher priority then background processes. therefore using your ENTIRE cpu to load the map and thus making it load faster.
Do what is suggested here to minimize the loading times as much as possible:
http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/showthread.php?t=11052
It's for Red Orchestra but it applies 100% to Killing Floor as well.
http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/showthread.php?t=11052
It's for Red Orchestra but it applies 100% to Killing Floor as well.
Would that same thing help the framerate? Now the loading time is normal, but the framerate can get pretty bad after about 30 minutes of gameplay.