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Titus

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How Long Does It Take To Recieve World?
« on: May 07, 2002, 12:32:46 am »
I\'ve sat here for 10 minutes and it still says revieving world.
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« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2002, 12:58:02 am »
Reports say anywhere from 2 minutes to 1 hour. It took me about 3-4 minutes on a T1 line.
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« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2002, 01:20:55 am »
we are ^_^ most likely it\'s only the first time you connect that it will take so long. Anyway, even the first time shouldn\'t take that much time in the final release. But we\'re not there yet, so you\'ll have to be patient for now...

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« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2002, 01:46:56 am »
Ok, I sat there for 50 minutes, no game.  Thats it, I can\'t wait any more, I\'m just waiting for final.
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« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2002, 02:14:27 am »
40 min and hasn\'t changed

why do u guys seem to think receiving world has anything to do with connection.. i watched my modem throughout that entire 40 min and it wasn\'t active once.

it seems to me like its just unpacking it from that 12mb zip file. (why is it zipped by the way?) ... which when i upacked it... suprise surprise took me about 40 min!
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« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2002, 02:30:44 am »
i got on in less than a minute, it doesnt happen all that often tho, mostly its from 1-7minutes:)
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« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2002, 02:32:42 am »
You suck
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« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2002, 03:37:07 am »
First time about 5-15 mins, not sure coz I went off for a while to watch TV. :D

After that I used my watch to time: 4 mins! (or 3.59 mins to be exact)

But now it mainly ranges from 2-4 mins. :P
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« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2002, 03:43:08 am »
It takes me a fairly consistent 4 minutes to \"recieve world\".  I\'ve got a 400Mhz K6-II and a 56k modem connection.
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« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2002, 04:02:07 am »
I waited 80 min and I have 256k modem.  Screw this game.  I\'m gonna go back to playing Helbreath.
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« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2002, 04:32:08 am »
Let me explain.

First of all \'Recieving world\' has nothing to do with your internet connection right now. Indeed, it does use compression on the world file, which is 12MB. On anything greater than a 400mhz, this should only take 2-4 minutes. There is then an approximate wait of 2-10 minutes, depending on how full the server is, to recieve the \'actor list\' (as described by the debugging output of psclient) after the world is loaded. At this point, the screen finally refreshes and you are in the game.

The world file is compressed to save disk space.. if you want to make things faster, uncompress the file, as the VFS provided by crystal space can also \'mount\' these without being zipped.
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« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2002, 07:01:22 am »
im on my 233mhz when it takes 40min.

but on my new comp which is a 1ghz duron it still takes like 20-30min

ive tried unpacking them before but it then says it cant find the files... i also tried putting them into a folder with teh same name as the zipped... but still dont work... i think the path would have to be changed...

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....this is in the CFG file
Planeshift.Mount.zipmapdir = /this/art/world/
Planeshift.Mount.modelzip=/this/art/models.zip

which means they are looking fer zip files...

having them zipped up may apear like a space saver... but when u temperarily unpack them ur still gunna have to have the space needed if u were to originally have them unzipped...

so... in conclusion... dont make anything in zip files! plz!
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« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2002, 05:21:00 pm »
argh i hate all of you i waited almost an hour and nothing and i have a 1.4 ghz athalon with 256mb of DDR memory

also i can only run the game in win98 when i try XP it gets to the opening pic and playes the sound then freezes
is windows XP gonna be supported cause i preffer much more than 98

but stickman i disagree the .zip files makes for a smaller download thats the main benefit of it
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« Reply #13 on: May 07, 2002, 05:27:50 pm »
It only takes about 5-10 mins on my 56k modem, and i\'m 550mhz...it connects alot quicker depending on the amount of people on i think.
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« Reply #14 on: May 07, 2002, 11:22:48 pm »
when i went on there was no-one else there.

ya it does dowload faster... but that fact is the world is still zipped up...

during the installation they coulda unzipped it.
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