Problem with ALOT of mods

[Banana Jelly]

Native works fine and stuff with the loading screen. It takes about 30 seconds for the loading screen to finish.

But the mods, all the other things are fast EXCEPT the Texture loading screen. Why is that? In native the texture loading screen stays no more then 20 seconds. But in other mods like SoD 4.1, PoP, and such the texture loading screen stays for about 5 minuites. Enough time for me to finish my breakfeast.

Any way to fix this?

[Swagger]

no.


those mods have lots of new stuff, and that requires alot more textures.. so the game just takes alot of time to load them all

it's propotional

more textures = more time

[Banana Jelly]

Its kind of annoying you know? lol

[Kamos]

Yeah that happens with every mod, the only way to fix it that I know of is to install more RAM on to your computer.

[Nazgûl Killer]

To be honest, I doubt even more RAM would help. Just let the game load its stuff, go make yourself a sammich or play with your dog, by the time you get back the game will start

[Adorno1]

5 minutes is a ridiculously long time.
Do you have trouble loading other games - I mean does it also take forever?

[Nazgûl Killer]

Oh, wait... I missed the part you said it takes 5 minutes...
That IS ridiculously high.

I suggest you try updating your video card's drive, getting more RAM, clearing space on your system (Usually by deleting temporary internet files) or getting better/newer hardware.

In addition to that, if you haven't defragged in a while (a month or two can be a while, but for a real effect it should be around 6 months), try defragging. It tends to help - A lot.

[Banana Jelly]

Oh, wait... I missed the part you said it takes 5 minutes...
That IS ridiculously high.

I suggest you try updating your video card's drive, getting more RAM, clearing space on your system (Usually by deleting temporary internet files) or getting better/newer hardware.

In addition to that, if you haven't defragged in a while (a month or two can be a while, but for a real effect it should be around 6 months), try defragging. It tends to help - A lot.

Whats defragging? I havent ever done that. Oh im not lieing about the 5 minuite time though. It seems ridiculous but its true. Mount and blade tends to use alot of RAM but i dont usually have alot of programs running. Like about 50-60 prosseses

But it might be becuase of ram, but i dont know

[Kamos]

Well how much RAM do you have? I used to have the exact problem you did where it would take minutes to load, then i essentially doubled my RAM and now it hardly takes any time.

[Banana Jelly]

1 gig

[Kamos]

Well that can't be right because that's how much I have now, what about your video card and processor?

[Nazgûl Killer]

Whats defragging? I havent ever done that. Oh im not lieing about the 5 minuite time though. It seems ridiculous but its true. Mount and blade tends to use alot of RAM but i dont usually have alot of programs running. Like about 50-60 prosseses

But it might be becuase of ram, but i dont know

Defragging is a tool used by Windows to 'put programs together'.

Many programs, when installed, seem to have certain parts of them flying all over the place, the tool simply pieces the pieces back together, it takes a long time and needs a whole lot of CPU (Your computer will slow down tenfolds if you try to use it when defragging), but it's so worth it.
Most games and programs will run MUCH faster and much more smooth. This is how to do this:

Go to My Computer (The icon), right click on it.
Click "Manage" and find on the list on the left the "Disk Defragment" part. Click on it, select the drive you want to defrag and shoot.

NOTE: YOU MUST HAVE 15% (Or more) SPACE IN THE DRIVE YOU WANT TO DEFRAG!
It's worth the time and trouble, trust me.


Now, as for the rest of your problems, I use 1GB of RAM and the game works fine. It's probably just one big process which sucks a lot of CPU usage from Mount and Blade. It is also possible that it is your Video Card or CPU itself that's causing problems, but that's the worst case scenario, so let's ignore it for now.

Now, before you defrag, please, update your Video Drive. It helped me a ton when I first installed E:TW, it could be yours is outdated.
There are tools to help you do this, just search "Video Drive Downloads" or "Video Drive Updates" on Google.

Hope this helped.

[Banana Jelly]

I hope this works, thanks by the way, +rep for your effort. Now I will just wait till the defragging is done and get back

[Nazgûl Killer]

I hope this works, thanks by the way, +rep for your effort. Now I will just wait till the defragging is done and get back

[Banana Jelly]

Takes to long, been doing it for 2 hours still didnt finish so i canceled it. Did I just waste me time? Or did anything happen within the 2 hours?

[Kamos]

I think it what it gets done stays, it's supposed to take a long time and the more data you have the longer it takes.

[Nazgûl Killer]

You cancelled it? Come on...
Just activate it overnight, when you're not on the computer and let it do its job.
I assume that in those 2 hours it got SOME work done, but it didn't get everything done. I suggest you restart it and pause it once you get on the computer, and let it continue when you get off the computer again.

Like I said - It will take hours, not minutes. If you expect something to be fixed immediately and under 2 hours... That'll be hard to do. Unless you have a super-computer.

[Lord of Lost Socks]

I hate the vista defragger because it doesn't show how much it's progressed. So I downloaded Auslogics.
And seriously, a little patience, it might save you a lot more time than what you spend on it..

[Kamos]

Yeah I defragged last night and that took around an hour and a half to two hours with only around 17GB of data on my computer. I imagine with more data it's going to take a LOT longer.

[Banana Jelly]

I have about 40 gigs in my C: