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... are just stupid. I'm on a wired connection getting beat by matter of 2 minutes by people on wireless and people who weren't even in the last round on that server to the start of a new round, I miss the "Ready Up" stage 3/4 of the time and its pissing me off. BF4 is the only game which takes so long to load. What can I do about this/ what is there to do? It makes the game unplayable as hell for me when I have to wait forever just to miss the begining of the game.. 

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ssd? 

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ssd? 

That don't involve spending money. Plus I've heard its not even that much of a help to load from an SSD in BF4.

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something thats always confuzled me about load times is i have a 5400 rpm hdd and a wireless connection but in every game i load first. the only person who gets close is my mate with a wd black and a wired connection. not that im complaining 

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That don't involve spending money. Plus I've heard its not even that much of a help to load from an SSD in BF4.

low ping? 

 

others have faster DL speeds? 

 

Im usually the second or 3 one in with my ssd. VS HDD the game already started or because of the update just beginning but all the vehicles gone. 

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Put is on a SSD or faster a HDD. I have it on my ssd and am usually first in.

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That don't involve spending money. Plus I've heard its not even that much of a help to load from an SSD in BF4.

This is not true at all. An SSD is the most important part of loading in, not the connection. My laptop takes 4 minutes to load in while my desktop takes 30 seconds.

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low ping? 

 

others have faster DL speeds? 

 

Im usually the second or 3 one in with my ssd. VS HDD the game already started or because of the update just beginning but all the vehicles gone. 

I ping 25-30 in 99% of my games. And i have 22mbps dl speed. Its defintely not my connection, and I say again, SSDs aren't always going to help load times and that is specific to BF4. 

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This is not true at all. An SSD is the most important part of loading in, not the connection. My laptop takes 4 minutes to load in while my desktop takes 30 seconds.

2600K @ 4.6Ghz and HD7950 took 45s on my 7200Rpm 110Mb/s read and write drive...

 

Less than 25s on the SSD at all times, faster when you don't exit and do round to round.

Huge difference, almost half the time taken on initial loading.

 

Your issue seems normal if your not using an SSD or a WD black/superfast mechanical.

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I'm pretty sure it's going to be one of these things:

 

1. Get an SSD

2. Change to a wired connection if you aren't already on one

3. If wired is inconvenient try powerline adapters because they're very close if not the same

4. Move to another street/town/state/country where you get better internet speeds

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I ping 25-30 in 99% of my games. And i have 22mbps dl speed. Its defintely not my connection, and I say again, SSDs aren't always going to help load times and that is specific to BF4. 

Load times are very much tied to your ssd /hdd speed for bf4.

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I'm pretty sure it's going to be one of these things:

 

1. Get an SSD

2. Change to a wired connection if you aren't already on one

3. If wired is inconvenient try powerline adapters because they're very close if not the same

4. Move to another street/town/state/country where you get better internet speeds

You can come back when you read more then the title. I'm already on an a wired connection with 22down/5up. 

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Do you connect to local servers or international ones?

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Do you connect to local servers or international ones?

Local only, hence low ping. 

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Local only, hence low ping. 

Really? Very unusual indeed.

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Local only, hence low ping. 

Lol the only thing that will help your load time is a better hdd or ssd. Nothing else is going to help.

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Lol the only thing that will help your load time is a better hdd or ssd. Nothing else is going to help.

I am not spending money just to make one game load faster. I have a 64gb SSD that I use as my boot drive and if it had the space I would put the vanilla texture files on there since DLC loads just fine. 

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I agree. SSD is the best thing you can do for load times. Everything else is minor improvements and not worth it. Maybe overclocking helps too. But only a tiny bit.

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That don't involve spending money. Plus I've heard its not even that much of a help to load from an SSD in BF4.

It's heaps of help. If I do not have BF4 on my SSD I often miss countdown (But still in relatively early). If it's on my SSD then I never miss countdown

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You can come back when you read more then the title. I'm already on an a wired connection with 22down/5up. 

 

Sorry I did read your post, I added the wired connection bit just before I was about to post my reply because I forgot you'd said it... :P

 

Basically though I don't think there's a lot you can do without buying an SSD, which may or may not help depending on where the bottleneck is in your connection.

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Yeah Im basically done with bf4 for a while so i guess this is a moot point.  Server browser is telling me that there are no servers, at all, in all of north america playing any of the dlc maps with 1-16 free slots. So I reset filter, which selects North America as the only region but then I end up on some asian server and 500 ping. Seriously, what the hell? Not even the browser works...

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There is litteraly no way that your connection is causing this. I played BF3 on a 50kbps/down-10kbps/up for a week and it worked fine-ish i shit you not!

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There is litteraly no way that your connection is causing this. I played BF3 on a 50kbps/down-10kbps/up for a week and it worked fine-ish i shit you not!

I KNOW its not my connection. Absolutely no way it could be. Not with 22down.. No. And i pitty you on that speed.. 

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I KNOW its not my connection. Absolutely no way it could be. Not with 22down.. No. And i pitty you on that speed.. 

Defrag using a program that can send specific data to a specific part of the drive.

 

Like O&O Defrag is able to let me set Windows/Games directories towards the start of the drive where its faster.

See if it improves a little.

 

 

Start overclocking if your not buying an SSD and it's not your network.

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An SSD is 100% responsible for map load times in BF4. When a map loads it is caching data that is stored on your drive to GPU and RAM memory.

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