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I have a Problem running the Saint Lucia demo. The loading screen (which is fantastic by the way) seems to freeze after a few minutes, the loading bar seems to be full already.

 

The last demo did work on my PC.. i have 1GB Ram and 256 video ram (Ati x1950pro), Windows xp and a Intel Pentium D (2 x 2,8GHz) processor.

 

Any Idea?

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I have a Problem running the Saint Lucia demo. The loading screen (which is fantastic by the way) seems to freeze after a few minutes, the loading bar seems to be full already.

 

The last demo did work on my PC.. i have 1GB Ram and 256 video ram (Ati x1950pro), Windows xp and a Intel Pentium D (2 x 2,8GHz) processor.

 

Any Idea?

 

When "Loading bar" freezes, D3 still starts to load textures and so on until it will show the map.

 

Can you try to wait a bit longer and see if it continues?

 

Also, make sure the following entries in your DoomConfig.cfg are set properly to these values:

 

 seta image_usePrecompressedTextures "1"
seta image_useNormalCompression "2"
seta image_useAllFormats "1"
seta image_useCompression "1"
seta image_preload "1"

 

Someone reported that without these values it took way over 10 minutes to load the map, which is not how it should be :) Should take at most 2minutes, depending on your hardware.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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Okay, i edited my config, now it works. Thank you  :wub:

 

Could you please tell me if you have a DoomConfig.cfg in your base and[/] your saintlucia directory, and which of the two you edited? We are still trying to figure out why this works for some people and not others.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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Could you please tell me if you have a DoomConfig.cfg in your base and your saintlucia directory, and which of the two you edited? We are still trying to figure out why this works for some people and not others.

 

Okay, i think i was so happy about the game working at all that i didn't really mind the long loading time. I think editing the config made it a bit faster, but im not sure about it. It still requires more than 5 minutes to load the map for the first time. Reloading the map is much faster.

 

I have both config-files and edited both of them. Maybe i just need a second gb ram.  :laugh:

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Okay, i think i was so happy about the game working at all that i didn't really mind the long loading time. I think editing the config made it a bit faster, but im not sure about it. It still requires more than 5 minutes to load the map for the first time. Reloading the map is much faster.

 

I have both config-files and edited both of them. Maybe i just need a second gb ram.  :laugh:

 

Yes, 1 Gbyte under windows is about the minimum. Here under Linux the D3 process used nearly 500 Mbyte memory after loading SL, so that means there is only about 300 left for hard-disk cache. I imagine windows might also start swapping out applications, which would slow things down. That's progress :blush:

 

As for the config-files, you are not the first one who has that problem. Seems almost every second person ends up with the wrong settings in the SL DoomConfig.CFG for some reason :(

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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Okay, i bought a second Gigabyte Ram, now everything loads much faster, and it even doubled my fps! :D

 

Very good :)

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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Wow, double framerate?! So it MUST have been doing caching on the hard drive for textures or something, and now that you have enough extra memory it's free to run normally instead of bogged down.

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