Quake3: Is 3 minutes to load normal?

[fury]

Is it?

From the time that I click the shortcut to the appearance of the menu is 3 min 7 sec.

Any way to speed this up?

Asus P3V4X Bios 1003
256M ram
P3-733
Matrox G400Max
Tekram DC-390U2W SCSI controller
Quantum Atlas V 36G WLS
IBM DGHS 18V
Monster Sound 2 MX300
Plextor PX-R412C
Plextor PX-W8432C

[DosFreak]

wow. No that is definetly not normal heh. hmmmmmmmmm.

1. Defrag your HD.
2. Delete the q3config.cfg in BaseQ3. Then start game. If still takes to long then see #3.
3. Reinstall game.
4. Scandisk your drives.
5. Check your DMA/UDMA settings.
6. Make sure your using appropriate HD cabling.
7. Bench your drives with HDTACH.

[This message has been edited by DosFreak (edited 11 July 2000).]

[This message has been edited by DosFreak (edited 11 July 2000).]

[fury]

Defragged: no help.

Delete Q3.cfg: no help

Reinstall Q3: no help

ScanDisk: No errors

DMA, UDMA: not applicable to SCSI, ie busmastering

Cable: If you priced LVD cable...

HDTach: Similar results to Adaptec SCSI Tools: about 27m/s for Quantum, 17 for IBM
Drive speed not the problem.

[xortam]

Any interrupt conflicts? I found the MX300 should be on its own IRQ (as well as the G400). For me, if the MX300 was sharing an IRQ, it would hang in Q3A if I went into setup during a game.

[Kenny[SP]]

Oh Well I do think you have some serious problem/misconfiguration with you ultra 2 card...
cause i have the very same scsi card, coupled with an ibm dnes 9 gigabytes lvd !
and i got 52 mb with hd tach (win 2k)! (got 56 under win98 strange)

have a look at the bandwith in the scsi card bios to see if wide negotiation is active and if the bandwith is on 40mb/s

Ken

[TheDarkHorizon]

I used to have very long load times too, because I was loading from my very slow CD-ROM. I installed full install to my harddrive and it was still slow, then I did some benchmarks on my harddrives and my C drive was able to do like 16,000kb/s while my D was only able to do 40kb/s. So I installed full install to my C instead of D, and then load times were a lot shorter. Hope this helps.

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AMD Athlon K7 750MHz
256MB PC-100 SDRAM
20GB Maxtor 7200RPM Hard Drive
8.6GB Maxtor 5400RPM Hard Drive
ATAPI 40X max Generic CD-ROM
IDE-CD ReWritable-2x2x6x
SB Live Value
Matrox Millenium G400 32MB
SMC EZ Card 10/100 (SMC1211TX) (Network Card To Cable Modem)
3Com EtherLink III ISA (3C509b-TPO) (Network Card To Network Bridge)
Windows 2000 5.04 Matrox Millenium G400 Drivers
Windows 2000 Advanced Server

[fury]

Thanks to all for the suggestions.

The problem is with Kaspersky Labs AVP anti-virus monitor. I've had this program for over 2 years and this is the first time that I've had any problems with it.

I've notified AVP; will post their reply when
I get it.