Will we be seeing faster loading screens in the near future? - Garry's Mod

I have a lot of addons which makes the game load for a long long long time and i remember it was pretty long even without allot of addons, Did Garry mention anything about improving loading times? and are there going to be some improvements in the near future?

Hopefully, but nothing's been said. Just speculation.

I hope so because half the time you cant tell if your game has crashed or its just taking its time ¬_¬

I fucking hate starting GMod only because the loading times are so goddamn long. And no I wont delete my addons because I need them.

I normaly just take out addons I wont use for a long time and put them in a separate folder on my desktop.

Mine loads gm_construct in under 10 seconds.

[QUOTE=garry;32201253]Mine loads gm_construct in under 10 seconds.[/QUOTE] Vanilla? / PC Specs please

Vanilla with all content installed. 6GB, i7 920, win7 64. System rating 5.9 (lowest is disk)

Only takes about 30 seconds for me and I'm on a damn E3300.

If a the loading time is longer then about 2 or 3 minutes you have far too many addons or a seriously crap PC.

Okay, let's focus on making sure your shit PC can load it faster because you can't stand sitting still for a minute or two.

or you could get rid of some of your 50,000 weapon packs

Mine loads with Wire, SpaceBuild, etc super fast....SSD's where its at! Specs: i7 2600k, 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz, dual radeon 6850, Intel 320 120GB SSD (But i also have a velociraptor 300GB for other stuff)

What kind of loading times are we looking at here.. level loading or game launching?

Normaly I run multiple addon folders depending on which gamemodes I play or intend to. You might wanna consider one of these addon disable programs but I've not seen one for a while.

Takes roughly fifteen seconds to load up GMod. Connecting to servers vary depending what sort of filfth they're sending to the client.

I load most maps in 2 minutes. But i am saying big maps like evocity.

Loads maps in 3-5 minutes

Everyone that says it takes more then one minute to load a map, post your PC specs and addons

It takes me about 7 minutes roughly to load gm_construct on single player, but on multiplayer it loads faster... I have a shit load of addons but here are my specs: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E6550 @2.33 GHz 2.33 GHz Installed Memory (RAM): 4.00 GB (3.25 GB Usable) System Type: 32-Bit OS (Using Windows 7 Enterprise) (Service Pack 1) I do install a lot of shit though and I haven't formatted in like 5 months.

10 to 20 minutes. Not kidding. I've got at least 2-4 weapon packs, spacebuild, and some other stuff. Upside to it is that I have addonissimo, which allows me to disable/enable addons. And my PC is pretty powerful... EDIT-More definitive list of large stuff I have. -Spacebuild 3-All of it. -Wiremod-All of it -Tactical Weapons Pack -All customiziable weapons -Firearms Source Sweps -Mad Cows weapon Pack -GDC And like I said, Addonissimo should be slowing this down, but I have a feeling it's not doing much.

It usually takes me longer to start a singleplayer map than it does joining a server, and the funny thing is that I keep addons to the bare minimum.

I load Gm_Construct with vanilla gmod in about 2 minutes. :(

[QUOTE=garry;32201350]Vanilla with all content installed. 6GB, i7 920, win7 64. System rating 5.9 (lowest is disk)[/QUOTE] Oh lawl i got the same thing but it's 8GB

Mine loads gm_construct in 10 seconds and can record 1080p, 60fps in Fraps at the same time. Obligatory proof and YouTube plug: [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWyoP7h_3x4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWyoP7h_3x4[/URL] The update will likely streamline certain bits of code, but it's the addons that will be the root of slow starts.

[QUOTE=KitAlexHarrison;32268509]Mine loads gm_construct in 10 seconds and can record 1080p, 60fps in Fraps at the same time. Obligatory proof and YouTube plug: [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWyoP7h_3x4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWyoP7h_3x4[/URL] The update will likely streamline certain bits of code, but it's the addons that will be the root of slow starts.[/QUOTE] The update will probably nuke Derma/Vgui to hell and make us all cry :) As for load up times, mine are fine. 30-40 seconds with my addons,but I just have wire and a crap load of random cache files slowing me down. I've not re-installed gmod since I reinstalled windows, which was um ... huh a while ago :)

for system specs: XP Professional 2002 SP3 Intel Core 2 Duo CPU 2.33 GHz, 2.00 GB of RAM 3 Display Adaptors (LogMeIn, Raedion X1650+Secondary) takes me quite a while to start.

3ghz dual core, Windows 7 4gb ram. Takes 12 seconds to load up sandbox on "Create Multiplayer". ;P

I deleted save 2 addons in my folder, and it loads in about a minute for me. Time to reinstall.

Does Adv. Dup. files extends the loading time?