shorter loads times when full version is released

pentecostal_wind · **Joined:** Sat Dec 23, 2006 2:00 am **Posts:** 21

are the loading times gonna be shorter when the full version is released cuz im tired of waiting for every single thing u do in the game updating and loading,thanks for ur help.

Maratanos · **Posted:** Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:08 pm

pentecostal_wind wrote:

are the loading times gonna be shorter when the full version is released cuz im tired of waiting for every single thing u do in the game updating and loading,thanks for ur help.

There will always be long loading times the first time you link to an age as it will have to download everything for that age. However, on further visits, barring more updates, it should run relatively fast.

macnbc · **Joined:** Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:53 am **Posts:** 859

pentecostal_wind wrote:

are the loading times gonna be shorter when the full version is released cuz im tired of waiting for every single thing u do in the game updating and loading,thanks for ur help.

I have all the ages downloaded on my new PC and after the initial download on everything link times are only about 5-10 seconds between ages.

Aegin · **Posted:** Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:33 pm

Yea. Mine is about the same. If you're experiencing long load times it's more than likely either your computer or your internet connection.

GAThrawn · **Posted:** Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:45 pm

It takes me around 40 seconds to link to one of my private ages, and around 5-10 minutes to link to the public version of the city (but around 40 seconds to link to the instanced city via the Gallery; while Relto and the hoods take much shorter time to load) And I have DSL that downloads at 170 kb a sec.

astro · **Posted:** Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:50 pm

GAThrawn wrote:

...And I have DSL that downloads at 170 kb a sec.

You need more speed on you Internet connection, 170 Kbit is at the absolute minimum limit, this will always cause slow loading times.

Rusty_Russell · **Posted:** Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:59 pm

From the (fast) times in GAThrawn's post, I think that's 170 KB/sec (it's download rather than connection).

Tiran · **Posted:** Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:51 pm

The kb/KB/kB/Kb stuff is confusing for most users:

b = bit
B = byte = 8 bits
k = kilo = factory 1000
K = kika = factory 1024

mnemonic: upper (larger) case = larger number

GAThrawn · **Posted:** Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:30 pm

Rusty_Russell wrote:

From the (fast) times in GAThrawn's post, I think that's 170 KB/sec (it's download rather than connection).

Correct.

Maratanos · **Posted:** Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:39 pm

Tiran wrote:

The kb/KB/kB/Kb stuff is confusing for most users:

b = bit
B = byte = 8 bits
k = kilo = factory 1000
K = kika = factory 1024

mnemonic: upper (larger) case = larger number

Frankly, no. I can go with the first two, but K and k are the same. The difference comes in the context. If it's bytes, its 1024, otherwise, 1000.

Tiran · **Posted:** Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:19 pm

Maratanos wrote:

Frankly, no. I can go with the first two, but K and k are the same. The difference comes in the context. If it's bytes, its 1024, otherwise, 1000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilo

Quote:

kilo- (symbol: k) is a prefix in the SI and other systems of units denoting 10^3 or 1000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibi

I made one mistake: it's kibi and not kika

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Maratanos · **Posted:** Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:27 pm

Frankly, THIS sentance explains my ignorance:

Quote:

However, they have not yet been widely adopted by manufacturers....

Raniass'i · **Joined:** Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:37 am **Posts:** 192

Wikipedia is more then likely wrong. Look at it like this. Your RAM is in Megabytes. If you have a gig of RAM. You don't have 1000 megabytes you have 1024 megabytes. I would say Kilo is the same with it being 1024 and Kibi, or kika or whatever it is, is 1000.

chucker · **Posted:** Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:39 pm

Tiran wrote:

Maratanos wrote:

Frankly, no. I can go with the first two, but K and k are the same. The difference comes in the context. If it's bytes, its 1024, otherwise, 1000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilo

Quote:

kilo- (symbol: k) is a prefix in the SI and other systems of units denoting 10^3 or 1000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibi

I made one mistake: it's kibi and not kika

We live in the real world, however, where many people don't even know the SI binary prefixes at all, and many of those who do couldn't care less.

Which doesn't make them any less valid, but, let's be honest, very, very few software developers and hardware vendors have adopted them at all. The major OSes out there speak of "KBs" when they mean "KiBs", and whenever a hard drive vendor speaks of "GBs", they're SI-accurate, but many claim that the vendor is lying.

Marten · **Posted:** Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:48 pm

Case in point: Recordable DVDs are SI-accurate. 4.7GB is not 4.7 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024. It's 4.7 billion bytes, or 4,700,000,000.

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