koonthul
11-17-2004, 12:02 AM
This can't be right...
I've been experiencing slow load times for games ever since I put my system together, so I'm a little confused. Slow load times as in: Max Payne 1 loads slower than it should compared to a machine of lower spec, Half Life 2 pops and stutters every five seconds (like a cd), etc. This can't be right with the hardware I have.
2 serial ATA 160gig Samsung 7200 rpm 8 meg cache hdd's
ASUS A7N8X deluxe MOBO rev 2.0 with bios flashed at 1007
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton
2 sticks of Geil PC3200 DDR RAM at 512 a piece = total 1 gig
Radeon 9800 Pro
3 optical drives (2 unplugged)
4 case fans (unplugged)
2 cold cathode tubes (unplugged)
I have one drive setup to load windows (boot drive) and the other seperate physical drive loads my games. I tried putting the games on root, but still the same problem.
There is definitely something wrong, and I can't figure it out. My load times are ridiculous with the hardware I have. There has to be something I'm missing in terms of settings or drivers, something. Anyone with a similar rig? Any ideas? This is really getting annoying, my gaming experience is suffering, max payne 1 should load lickety split and it takes FOREVER ( a good 5 to 8 minutes)....
I've been experiencing slow load times for games ever since I put my system together, so I'm a little confused. Slow load times as in: Max Payne 1 loads slower than it should compared to a machine of lower spec, Half Life 2 pops and stutters every five seconds (like a cd), etc. This can't be right with the hardware I have.
2 serial ATA 160gig Samsung 7200 rpm 8 meg cache hdd's
ASUS A7N8X deluxe MOBO rev 2.0 with bios flashed at 1007
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton
2 sticks of Geil PC3200 DDR RAM at 512 a piece = total 1 gig
Radeon 9800 Pro
3 optical drives (2 unplugged)
4 case fans (unplugged)
2 cold cathode tubes (unplugged)
I have one drive setup to load windows (boot drive) and the other seperate physical drive loads my games. I tried putting the games on root, but still the same problem.
There is definitely something wrong, and I can't figure it out. My load times are ridiculous with the hardware I have. There has to be something I'm missing in terms of settings or drivers, something. Anyone with a similar rig? Any ideas? This is really getting annoying, my gaming experience is suffering, max payne 1 should load lickety split and it takes FOREVER ( a good 5 to 8 minutes)....