[dickymo]

Greetings: I've D/L'd the demo for JK 2 & I'm enjoying playing when I finally get it loaded. It takes FOREVER!!! (2-3 mins) on the initial start up & when it restarts after getting wacked. I've tried changing various settings & resolutions but to no avail.
System = G4 450 DP OS 10.1.5 w/ 900 megs ram, ATI Radeon card, Soundblaster card(I know won't work in X)19" Lacie electron blue monitor
Anybody else have this problem?
Suggestions?

Cheers,
Dickymo

[a2daj]

Find something else to do while the game is loading... There isn't much you can do. The game levels are huge with lots of high quality textures. One thing you might try is disabling texture compression, but I'm not sure if you want to do that since it'll affect peformance.

[mac freak]

Do you have OS 9 installed? I've found I get better loading times when not running X... and you're even running 10.1.5, pre-Jaguar, which can't be beneficial.

[Brad Oliver]

Originally posted by mac freak:
Do you have OS 9 installed? I've found I get better loading times when not running X... and you're even running 10.1.5, pre-Jaguar, which can't be beneficial.

You'll get the fastest loading times under 10.l.5, since OSX has much faster file handling than 9, and 10.1.5 doesn't do texture compression.

Really, the only thing the original poster can do to speed it up is get a faster Mac.

[dickymo]

Thanks for the tips. RTCW & MOHH AA load pretty fast so I kind of expected JK2 to do the same.
I guess I'll heed my wifes words of wisdom"Good things come to those that wait"

Cheers

Dickymo

[proux]

Same here on a 500Mhz Cube, but the game is great.

Brad, occasionaly JKII single player quits on the first saved game loading, at the end of the progress bar. Feels like it happens only on some big levels (canyon). I have 512mb. Could be a memory allocation problem?

Anyway I manage to get the game to load after a couple of tries and once it worked once, the subsequent loads are all good.