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#1 2014-03-19 18:06:58

fabledpig
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Registered: 2013-03-15
Posts: 24

Slow loading in Source games (native)

Hi guys!

I experience very slow loading times (2-3min) in source engine based games (especially TF2, L4D2, Dota 2) under Linux. However I have no FPS problems, just the games are a little bit laggy for a few seconds after they finished loading.

Under Windows everything is okay on the same computer.

Source based games seem to use too much ram (swap?). Setting texture details to low normalizes the loading time.

Any ideas?

Processor Information:
Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x17
CPU Stepping: 0xa
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 2926 Mhz
2 logical processors
2 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Unsupported
SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
"Arch Linux" (32 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.12.6-1-ARCH
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 11405000
X Window Manager: bspwm
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime-release_2013-10-23

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST/PCIe/SSE2

Driver Version: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 331.20
OpenGL Version: 4.4
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x11c2
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 1440 x 900
Desktop Resolution: 1440 x 900
Primary Display Size: 19.21" x 12.01" (22.64" diag)
48.8cm x 30.5cm (57.5cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 2048 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x 16x

Sound card:
Audio device: VIA VT1708S

Memory:
RAM: 2019 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 79516 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 13122 Mb

The system information is a little bit outdated.

Last edited by fabledpig (2014-03-19 18:46:34)

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#2 2014-03-19 20:58:15

ChemBro
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Registered: 2008-10-22
Posts: 704

Re: Slow loading in Source games (native)

Submit a bug report to Valve. It's "normal" behaviour. Also I have long loading times in L4D2 on Windows, too.

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#3 2014-03-19 21:25:30

fabledpig
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Registered: 2013-03-15
Posts: 24

Re: Slow loading in Source games (native)

I have already submitted a bug report, but they don't seem to care. My loading times on Windows are 2-3 times faster (probably TF2 is the slowest on Linux, it's just unacceptable to wait 3 minutes to load a new map so I can't get in for the first round).

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