Checking the version of your game assets...

posted on September 1st, 2010, 12:52 am

Just wondering if this will be looked at in the next patch, it usually takes about 2 minutes for this process to finish every single time I load Fleet Ops. (even if i have not rebooted) It would also be good to know what exactly this process does - does it generate a checksum of the game's content?

[loki_999]

posted on September 1st, 2010, 7:46 am

Last edited by loki_999 on September 1st, 2010, 9:23 am, edited 1 time in total.

2 minutes... ouch.  You need to get yourself a faster harddrive i suspect.

Still, mine can take up to 30 seconds sometimes and is annoying.  I presume it is making a checksum, perhaps they could make a less rigorous check at the risk of people with small mods causing problems with multiplayer.


EDIT:
PS: You have degfragged your partition where you have the game installed recently?  I did it not long ago and noticed a decent improvement in checking game assets, loading times, and the lag that can occur when its loading objects in game.

posted on September 1st, 2010, 8:16 am

Actually I can live with the check. It takes ages but you already have Tunngle up and running while the check is performed. So meet'n'greet some folks in the lobby in the meantime 
Once FO did it once it's okay. You simply should avoid to restart FO too often. That's what I do and I'm fine with it by now.
But if there's any way to speed up the process I won't stop anyone to do so 

posted on September 1st, 2010, 8:39 am

you should definitely get a new harddrive

posted on September 1st, 2010, 8:48 am

So, how long is it supposed to take? It takes about 10 to 20 secs for me and I have a new harddrive 

posted on September 1st, 2010, 12:37 pm

Maybe a faster processor + some additional RAM if available. It could be that either the processor is a bit on the slower end or maybe the RAM is not exactly spacious so it tries to work with a few hundred kilobytes instead of the recommended Megabyte.... or whatever.

posted on September 1st, 2010, 2:04 pm

I get more than 2 minutes of checking game assets with 1.86 GHz and 2 GB RAM. None of the other games I've played online take anywhere near this long to do anything (and one of them definitely uses a checksum...)

posted on September 1st, 2010, 2:20 pm

i think the reason the check takes so long is that there are so many odf files.

this is unlikely to change soon so we just have to accept it lol.

unless they abandon the odf check (might not be possible i dunno), then the game would be vulnerable to cheating.

unless they implemented a random odf check. where the game selects a random few of the odfs and checks only those on each machine.

posted on September 1st, 2010, 2:39 pm

Why not have it where it only checks the odfs that are going to be used? If no one is playing borg, and there are no borg AI on the map. Then why go through the borg odfs?

posted on September 1st, 2010, 2:52 pm

The check is done when you click the Internet-Tunngle button, not when the battle starts. It would be nice if  it did a random check like Myles suggested, maybe only check one third of odfs.

posted on September 1st, 2010, 2:55 pm

Still would you check the fragmentation on your drive.  My processor speed is only slightly better than yours and memory less, so i would definitely think its your hard drive that is the bottleneck.

posted on September 1st, 2010, 3:14 pm

defragging would definitely help as the odf files could be read quicker.

there might be a way to sort the files on your disk so that the fo odfs are all consecutively placed.

uninstall, defrag, sort and optimise your disk. then reinstall and fo's files should be contiguous. but then at the next patch they would fragment again probably.

posted on September 1st, 2010, 3:32 pm

It takes quite some time for me also and i dont have a weak system, my specs are amd 635 quad core 2.9Ghz, 4gbs ram, 500gb hd 7,200 rpm,nvidia 8200. I run disk defrag everyday(this doesnt make a difference anyway) and the checking assets last anywhere between 1 min and 2 mins and sometimes just freezes or i get impatient and end the process.

Id also like to see that improved as i dont remember this taking so long on the other patches and back then i was using my laptop which isnt even half as powerfull as my desktop.

[Anonymous]

posted on September 1st, 2010, 4:00 pm

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I run disk defrag everyday(this doesnt make a difference anyway) and the checking assets last anywhere between 1 min and 2 mins and sometimes just freezes or i get impatient and end the process.

running defrag every day is pointless, and it will actually reduce the life time of your hard drive.

and defragging definitely will improve all performance of your computer. especially checking the odfs. if they get fragmented then the hard drive will have to spend a lot of time finding the files.

making the odfs be all in the same place on the disk and all contiguous will decrease the time it takes to check the files.

Id also like to see that improved as i dont remember this taking so long on the other patches and back then i was using my laptop which isnt even half as powerfull as my desktop.

new patches have more odfs so the check takes longer.

posted on September 1st, 2010, 4:17 pm

I have a 4gb laptop with a Duel core processor and it still takes 30 seconds to a minute to load.   i don't need a new harddrive as it is less than a year old.