epic load times

Corellia is horrible. It should not take the amount of time it does to load in when there are 4 people on the entire planet

This may be an oversight by the devs.

They want to create large epic worlds that are scaled correctly for immersion purposes. The Senate building on Coruscant is really a huge building for Senates with multiple rooms, not like the small "castle" of Stormwind.

But this immersion was done at the expense of convenience and practically:
1. As pointed out, these huge worlds come with the disadvantage of longer loading times.
2. Huge worlds mean too much traveling to get from point to point. I understand that you need to make Tatooine feel like a desert, and not that really small place in KotOR 1. But there needs to be a nice compromise.
3. Huge worlds highlight how un-lifelike they are because you have run out of things to put in them. There's too much space.

Baldur's Gate 1 also had that problem where there are zones with too much "nothing" in them. No quests, no surprises, no new party members. The devs took that feedback and made Baldur's Gate 2 zones with more stuff in them.

The current planets may be too huge and used up too much development time.

You must have a pretty crappy selection for dinner if you can make it in less than a minute.

Woah that was fast, usually they are only 7200 rpm but yours are 10 times as fast.

Btw, get an SSD if your loading times are bad, i load fleet within 10 seconds, tatooine within 20. Yep, SSD is the ****.

I have an SSD and load times pre 1.2 were fine.

Now I've even had load times take up to 8 minutes.

The customer service just assumes it is a problem with each persons computer and the devs REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT AS A PROBLEM.

This needs to be fixed or BioWare will continue to lose customers.

Remember, as long as you have at least this everything will be ok


What are the system requirements for the game?

Processor:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4000+ or better
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz or better
Operating System:

Windows XP Service Pack 3 or later
RAM:

Windows XP: 1.5GB RAM
Windows Vista and Windows 7: 2GB RAM
Note: PCs using a built-in graphical chipset are recommended to have 2GB of RAM.
Star Wars: The Old Republic requires a video card that has a minimum of 256MB of on-board RAM as well as support for Shader 3.0 or better. Examples include:

ATI X1800 or better
nVidia 7800 or better
Intel 4100 Integrated Graphics or better
DVD-ROM drive – 8x speed or better (required for installation from physical editions only)
Internet connection required to play.

I have an SSD and my load times where terrible but this fixed the load times for me and a few of my friends. I found it on these forums, but I can't find the link again, so I will just post it here. Hope it helps some people.

Just a simple bat file that I launch the game with, you might need to edit the file if you didn't install the game in the default location. https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-c...llHSWM0emhtRkE
Or use the code below to make your own bat file.

With the games on tape, running on a datasette? Those were the days :-)
Load times in SWTOR are long though.

Gotta love it too when you are trying to zone into a warzone and it takes that long you get warning msgs saying you have been inactive for too long... even better when you finally do load the warzone and the barrier wont allow you to get through -_-

I think everyone who is complaining needs to understand how the HeroEngine caches the game asset files to dance around 32bit memory issues in a 64bit world. This is why the RAMdisk approach appears to be so significant in reducing load times for those who are so-inclined:

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=394951

Once I realized what was going on, the long load times make sense... in terms of WHY they happen... that said, I really hope they can find a better way to do this, because the method is inherently inefficient and really gives the perception of a very poorly optimized experience for the end user. This is compounded by the now-now-now mentality of the typical gamer... minimizing load times where you are not able to interact is almost a mandate for any modern game, imho.