Improved Loading Time
 

Hello P99 Community,

I have a question that I hope hasn't been asked before, but I'm fairly sure that it has been asked, somewhere. I did search the forum and came up with no real answer to my question.

I was wondering if there is a way to speed up load times between zones. My load time is already at least average from what I've been able to compare vs. other players, but with the new fixed Mend(CD refreshes on zone), I'd like to find out if its possible to speed this up in any way? Would make monk solo a lot more fun and viable!

If there is any information out there regarding this, I'd be greatly appreciative if they could point me in the right direction!

Turning on the zone caches seems to help. I'm not sure if its defaulted to on or not.
Inside the eqclient.ini under the [Defaults] section look for value.

TextureCache=TRUE

I'm pretty sure this is the correct line and I'm pretty sure it helps.

Solid State Hard Drive.

as opposed to tube driven?

You just need to cache the files and get one of those 600gig 10,000+ RPM hard drives like the WD VelociRaptor

If you've got enough memory, you could run the EQLite batch file to get the installation down to 1.4Gb, then copy the whole lot into a RAMDisk before playing.

Solid State Drives have no moving parts and use Flash memory cells. An M-Series SSD by Intel is much faster then a 10k V-Raptor hard drive. Of course the cost per GB is higher!

A 10K hard drive makes a bit of difference, but not that much... the seek time is twice as fast as a regular 7.2k drive; but again not as fast as SSD :)

I'm going to try this out later today. I run XP with 4GB ram, atm. Do you think creating the Ramdisk at 1.4GB would be safe enough with 4GB?

I'm curious about the results you find Tappin, because I also play a Monk and wouldn't mind speeding up the zone load times for this reason. I'm loving my monk alot more right now. Such a help for soloing (i'm a casual player so I solo alot)

I'll let you know how it goes, sir! Just finished converting to your lite client. :)

So far, the only problem I could think of, about doing this, is that most people tend to crash when they zone.. or they have a slight chance of doing so. I probably crash 1/10 zones. I'm not sure what causes the crash and I'm not sure if zoning more often would increase the amount of crashes one experiences. Also I'm not sure if the crashes have been addresses elsewhere in another thread, maybe someone has come up with a fix for this.

Hello guys, i have a lot of problems zoning. I think my eqclient crash every time i make 2 zones or maybe 3. But today i turn on "TextureCache=TRUE" and dont make more zone crash, i zone like 15 times or more.

PD: i use raptor's hdd and ofcourse the improvement it's a few low, but in other games i see a big diference betwen 7200 RPM hdd's.

PD2: I buy that hdd long time ago and dont exist the ssd, but seeing the actual prices i probably gonna buy one 60gb for system hehe.