Improving game load times

[goblinshark 5]

Any tips on how to do this? I noticed today that I load my game slower than my friends. We were on Steam, and they said, "alright where are you guys?" Every time they asked that after spawning, I had another 10-20 seconds of loading to do.

Any ways to improve this?

I'm on a 10k Raptor HDD, GTX 680, i5-2500k OC'ed to 4.5GHz.

None of them have SSD's.

[djkling 5]

Logging into your server is what takes the time, and the back-forth data. You would do better with a faster connection, though additionally the bunch of you logging in together probably lags the server slightly since resources seem dedicated more to keeping the game running well for the people playing over getting new people in

[BL1P 252]

If your talking about load speeds on each persons pc then :-

CPU, Memory and Storage speeds come into play

Faster the CPU

Faster the Memory

Faster the Storage

Equals faster the Load speeds and Draw speeds ingame.

If your talking about loading into a server then :-

Connection speeds plus all the above come into play.

Or so what I have read and experienced leads me to believe.

I use an ocz - agility3 SSD with an AMD 6core 1090t @3.8 with 16gig mem

Arma2 start up load time is about 7 seconds