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Tommas [ USF HunnyBunny ]
Chief Marshal
Pitch Black
Joined: February 04, 2006
Posts: 581
From: Norway
|  Posted: 2006-12-19 15:36
When u connect to DS, and then hit space, u instantly comes into the game, why is this, and does this do something that will cause more lag or somethingt?
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Doran
Chief Marshal
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 29, 2003
Posts: 4032
From: The Gideon Unit
| Posted: 2006-12-19 16:05
just a mechanism to bypass the caching of resources, models and the like. doesnt have any adverse effect on performance. (not for me anyway)
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BackSlash
Marshal
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2006-12-19 18:01
If you have fast enough HDD and memory (I'm talking DDR400 and low latency settings (TCAS/CAS)), then you can hit spacebar to bypass the caching of resources from the HDD to memory. Without this, whenever you jump into battle, DarkSpace will have to grab the model data, textures, etc, from your HDD and load them into memory, whilst this is happening, DarkSpace will hang, and you will not be able to do anything.
This is only a development 'tool' that we use so we can get into game faster to test things out when the caching of data isn't important. I do not recommend this if you do not have a fast system, or you experience DarkSpace hanging, or slowness in battle.
However, if it takes you forever to load, you can always hit spacebar towards the end of the loading, that way, you get a large portion of the data loaded into memory.
[ This Message was edited by: BackSlash *Jack* on 2006-12-19 18:01 ]
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Shigernafy
Admiral
Joined: May 29, 2001
Posts: 5726
From: The Land of Taxation without Representation
| Posted: 2006-12-19 19:17
Though I have a 5 year old computer and it works fine with spacebar about 10 seconds into loading. There IS a slight stall as I encounter something for the first time, but its never been enough to cause a problem. Usually the only time its noticeable is if I see a group of planets for the first time - and that's often only in the initial window with the play, observe, exit buttons, as it tends to start with a planetary cluster.
Anyway, moral of the story: don't be afraid to hit space.. unless your computer is like a p2 or has a 15rpm hard drive.
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Coeus
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Sundered Weimeriners
Joined: March 22, 2006
Posts: 2815
From: Philly
| Posted: 2006-12-19 21:31
I for one let it load fully - have far less lag problems it seems than anyone else, why jynx it? Only when I'm in a rush do I space in.
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