COD 5 - Rediculous MP Load Times

[HiProfile]

I'm having an issue with multiplayer load times. It takes around 30-35 seconds to load each map. I get HDD activity the first 2 seconds and last 5 seconds. Now COD4 maps loaded in 5-10 seconds. People I've talked to in-game say about 10-15 secs at most for the same maps.

PC specs aren't bleeding-edge, but still modern:
Q6600 @2.5, IP35-E, 2gb ram, Seagate satas (3gb speed), HD4850, Win XP

I've tried changing my swap file size, upping & lowering cpu speed, changing gfx settings. The latter is the only thing that makes a difference - by a mere 2-3 seconds. The memory shouldn't matter I would think, I'm still left with almost a full 1gb left while I'm running the game, but it fills my virtual mem with over a gig.


Any advice you guys can give me? I'm stumped... :-/

[fabulouscoops]

I have seen this a lot with normally high end computers having extra long load times. One clan member who fixed his problem said it was the ATI video driver. Are you running Cat 8.12?

[Niku-Sama]

does it happen with the same server or are you trying different servers?

[Mr.Guvernment]

how is your Inet connection, does it need to download any custom maps or mods?

also, what harddrives spefically, Seagate 3G means nothing.

[HiProfile]

Well I may try the newest ATI drivers - mine are the 8.11's that are a month old. I didn't suspect them, since I got them a while after getting the game (12/1).

As per drives, I meant 'sata2' at 3gb speed, 7200rpm. One is 320gb, on 640gb, and either 8/16mb or 16/32mb for cache between the two (I forget). Bottom line they should be fast enough.

It happens on all servers, mod or no mod (800KB/s here). I'm not talking about maps where you have to download files - it is the point where you get the moving white bar between map name & game type. 30 secs from it appearing to "searching for players".


I hope the drivers fix this, I appreciate all the help so far. :santa2: