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Posted February 13, 2013
Hey, I haven't bought this game on GOG yet but I'm

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playing through it on my machine from the copy I bought in 2000 when it was released (plus a hack for widescreen). But

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the only thing that's really driving me crazy about the game is that the loading screens are annoying as crap and take forever, even

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on a modern quad-core processor. I'm not a game developer but I think the issue is that Ion Storm for whatever reason thought it would

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be neat to have the progress bar make a "tick" sound every time one of the little units shows up, and since this sound effect takes a

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certain amount of time to play, the game is probably loaded already but you're still going to have to listen to that TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK

Really the fact that the game is so hard is not that bad, it's knowing that it will take longer to get through the loading screen than it will to get to the enemies and get killed is the daunting part. And this is the Quake 2 engine so it's not like this should take a long time.

Does the GOG version have the same issue? I know Daikatana never released mod tools but is there any way to remove this and make the load times not asinine?

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Posted February 13, 2013
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For some reason the loading screens are vsync'd and refreshed every time a single resource is loaded. This slows down the load time and syncs it to your refresh rate.

So simply force vsync off from your GPU drivers and it'll load much faster. This applies both to the GOG and the original versions.
Posted February 13, 2013
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badsector: For some reason the loading screens are vsync'd and refreshed every time a single resource is loaded. This slows down the load time and syncs it to your refresh rate.

So simply force vsync off from your GPU drivers and it'll load much faster. This applies both to the GOG and the original versions.
OH THANK GOD

Thanks, this worked
Posted February 14, 2013
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badsector: For some reason the loading screens are vsync'd and refreshed every time a single resource is loaded. This slows down the load time and syncs it to your refresh rate.

So simply force vsync off from your GPU drivers and it'll load much faster. This applies both to the GOG and the original versions.
Thank you!
I never would have thought of that.
Now tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick.....
is ziiiiiiiiiiip
Posted February 14, 2013
Thank you so much for this advice. Tried playing on normal difficulty, but I sucked and the painfully slow tick tick load times broke me. So I wussed out and went easy mode.
Posted February 14, 2013
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badsector: For some reason the loading screens are vsync'd and refreshed every time a single resource is loaded. This slows down the load time and syncs it to your refresh rate.

So simply force vsync off from your GPU drivers and it'll load much faster. This applies both to the GOG and the original versions.
Holy shit. I don't know how you lads figure out these sort of things. Wish I knew about this years ago, this makes Daikatana significantly more playable.
Posted February 16, 2013
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badsector: For some reason the loading screens are vsync'd and refreshed every time a single resource is loaded. This slows down the load time and syncs it to your refresh rate.

So simply force vsync off from your GPU drivers and it'll load much faster. This applies both to the GOG and the original versions.
You sir deserve a hundred Internets. You have saved me from dreading the lengthy load time every moment My Buddy Superfly decides to commit AI suicide.
Posted May 22, 2013
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badsector: For some reason the loading screens are vsync'd and refreshed every time a single resource is loaded. This slows down the load time and syncs it to your refresh rate.

So simply force vsync off from your GPU drivers and it'll load much faster. This applies both to the GOG and the original versions.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Posted January 08, 2014
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badsector: For some reason the loading screens are vsync'd and refreshed every time a single resource is loaded. This slows down the load time and syncs it to your refresh rate.

So simply force vsync off from your GPU drivers and it'll load much faster. This applies both to the GOG and the original versions.
Thank you very much!! Most appreciated!
Posted May 22, 2020
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badsector: the loading screens are vsync'd and This slows down the load time.
So simply force vsync off from your GPU drivers
What a badly made game. Happy I only just bought it $1
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