Hi, im one of those guys with extremely long precaching load times.(this differs from server to server but up to 10 min, probably due to my slow hdd ). Im running 32bit win7 with 4 gb ram, and have noticed that running ns2 maxes out to about 1.3 gb memory.
So i dont really need to go through all specs to tell you its not a great gaming machine, but i have 'decent' performance in-game, its just the precaching that takes for ever.
What i was thinking is that i have at least 1 gb spare mem, which i was thinking to allocate for a ram disk where im going to put the files which are precached, so im mostly just wondering about what files are actually loaded in this step? Does anyone know? Is it possible to get a list of that or find out through the console by some command?
EDIT: Just to clarify - I'm just interested in the precaching phase, the other stages might be slow, but it's not unbearable. In other words the map and a lot of other things should already be loaded before the precaching phase.
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So i dont really need to go through all specs to tell you its not a great gaming machine, but i have 'decent' performance in-game, its just the precaching that takes for ever.
What i was thinking is that i have at least 1 gb spare mem, which i was thinking to allocate for a ram disk where im going to put the files which are precached, so im mostly just wondering about what files are actually loaded in this step? Does anyone know? Is it possible to get a list of that or find out through the console by some command?
EDIT: Just to clarify - I'm just interested in the precaching phase, the other stages might be slow, but it's not unbearable. In other words the map and a lot of other things should already be loaded before the precaching phase.
G