epic load times

Speaking of cutting down on load times...for the love of God, Bioware, get rid of the requirement to go from the ship to the orbital station then to the planet. If one can go directly from the planet to one's ship then one should be able to go directly from the ship to the planet too.

You're just wasting our time otherwise for no valid reason since there's nothing to do on the orbital stations after the first visit.

I agree with this. The first time going to the planet, sure I can understand because usually there are missions to pick up there or class story plots. However after the first visit if we go back give us a pop-up as we're exiting our ship to either go to the orbital station or directly to the shuttle on the ground.

I appreciate you trying to troubleshoot for me, but I respectfully disagree. I consider load times of around 30sec to be acceptable and that is what I usually get in most games-- mmos-- that I play. Why is Swtor the exception? Not all the time, but it is staggering, to me, when it does happen.

I'm dying to get an ssd, but the capacity to dollar ratio isn't where I want it yet.

I concur, load times are way too long, and telling people to get SSDs to fix it isn't really an acceptable solution. They need a better way to handle the loading, especially when I'm not even going to use most of those assets right away when I get to a planet.

Sorry, but according to resource monitor it's not. While there certainly is disk activity at times during the long load most of the time there is no disk activity at all.

From what a friend of mine told me it probably won't be worth it with greater storage space. I'm not sure how true this is but he does a lot of work with computers and even has an SSD himself but according to him the way SSDs are currently designed their ability to access data goes down significantly the higher the storage space gets. To the point where even when SSDs match HDDs for storage space they will either have the same access speed or potentially slower. Now this is ofcourse based on current designs and production methods. This could easily change in the future. He warned me that if I really wanted faster access times to get one SSD for that but then also get a high capacity HDD for additional storage space for things I might not use as often.

Quad core 2.8GHz Processor
4GB Ram

Tatooine - 2-3 minutes load time
Alderaan - 2-3 minutes load time
Correlia - 3-5 minutes load time

Basically yeah long enough to go take a leak and grab another soda. But it feels like an eternity when you're staring at the screen waiting. Load times in this game really are rediculous. Chalk it up to EA being voted the worst company in America, lol.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...america-award/

Their communications director laughed at that like it was nothing, why would they care what any of us think?

thats it right there been much longer since 1.2

I apologize in advance, but this thread is full of misdiagnosis and obvious ignorance.

The man loads clearly faster on many other MMORPGS, but has minutes for SWTOR. I experience very fast loads (30secs) in SWTOR, but I have atrocious load times for Aldeeran and a few other areas - I have midrange-high system but with regular HDD's. It's safe to say that the SWTOR game engine or their server-client system is just seriously flawed. I know no other game that has "Full Servers" but looks like they're empty, and requires heavy heavy sharding. I can load a Battlefield 3 map on High-Ultra in 30 seconds, some of the maps are probably bigger than the ones in SWTOR (plus SWTOR streams/instances/shards). BF3 is DX10+, SWTOR is DX9, that's a bit sad TBH. (Yes I know it's apples and oranges, but SWTOR is hardly anything impressive. Small sharded zones and DX9 graphics....why the long load times?) WoW is now DX10+ and still loads faster.

Similiar threads have been written and alot of tech gurus (so they claim) said the game's bottleneck is sometimes due to the server sending you information. I've heard that SSDs will reduce load times, but only to a certain amount. Some people with SSD's have reported NO difference in load times after upgrading to one.

YEAH..JESUS...

i7 920 OC'd to 3.0 ghz
6GB DDR3 RAM
SATA RAID HDD's
AMD ATI 5870

Yeah, load times increased with 1.2.