Battlefield 3 PC discussion thread MK II

any way to make this game load up a little faster, expect for getting an EXPENSIVE upgrade?

Lol. Typo. *except.

Typed it out angrily. Lol.
 
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Saint said:
any way to make this game load up a little faster, expect for getting an EXPENSIVE upgrade?

Lol. Typo. *except.

Typed it out angrily. Lol.
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How long are the load times?
Mine was about 1 - 2 mins
 
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Saint said:
CPU: Quad Core 2.80GHz
RAM: 4GB
GPU: 8800GT
HDD: 80GB IDE
Windows 7 Ultimate (64bit)

Typical student PC I guess :)
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i am fairly certain it's your HDD, try loading BF3 onto a secondary HDD (not the OS drive), BF3 seems to chug on the HDD when loading, hence quicker load times with SSD or secondary drives.

an 80gig IDE will battle.......hard
 
Kurike said:
i am fairly certain it's your HDD, try loading BF3 onto a secondary HDD (not the OS drive), BF3 seems to chug on the HDD when loading, hence quicker load times with SSD or secondary drives.

an 80gig IDE will battle.......hard
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Have a 500GB SATA, but it's damn undependable. Format it at lest 3 times a week if I use it.
 
Kurike said:
i am fairly certain it's your HDD, try loading BF3 onto a secondary HDD (not the OS drive), BF3 seems to chug on the HDD when loading, hence quicker load times with SSD or secondary drives.

an 80gig IDE will battle.......hard
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Yep probably the reason the rest of the specs do look OK
 
I defrag my OS and Game Drive almost monthly. Use something such as Defragler and not the builtin Windows GUI or command line tool.

For cleaning up computers, use a combination of Glary Tools (One button repair, run until registry show no more errors) and Ccleaner (I have built a moderate include and exclude list over the last 2 years for Ccleaner). After that I run uDefrag (command line defrag utility).

Failing that, download HiRens Bootdisk and write it to a CD or USB stick. Bootup with that, choose mini Windows XP and defrag the OS and Games drive while it is offline. Fragmentation should be under 5% for optimal usage.
 
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seriiously though, a 80 Gig IDE HDD, that thing must be wheezing like an 90 year old old man after taking Viagra.

if you are formatting your 500 Gig SATA every week then either send it back for warranty or tuff it cause it's poked.

you can get a 250 gig Sata HDD for very liitle nowadays, i suggest you invest, sorry for the hard answer but sticking with the IDE drive is not going to solve anything :S
 
Kurike said:
seriiously though, a 80 Gig IDE HDD, that thing must be wheezing like an 90 year old old man after taking Viagra.

if you are formatting your 500 Gig SATA every week then either send it back for warranty or tuff it cause it's poked.

you can get a 250 gig Sata HDD for very liitle nowadays, i suggest you invest, sorry for the hard answer but sticking with the IDE drive is not going to solve anything :S
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Student life = No money
No money = No new hardware
No new hardware = I'm fucked

Edit: My IDE's been my most trustworthy HDD to date I'm afraid.
 
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