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How can I speed up the loading?

by Todd Johnson · in Torque Game Engine · 12/04/2004 (9:38 am) · 4 replies

If I query all the lan games when joining a server, I can select my server and I load up in seconds. But if I query the master and try to join it goes extremely slow and I have yet to wait it out.

Now I know what's going on. There's missing files (ie takeme.wav, clip.jpg etc) that is not on the client OR the server. On top of that I can't find where these files are any longer referenced in my code (yes I deleted the dso's). How can I have the server not request to upload these files to the client? And I repeat, they are not on the server, hence the "no such file".

Any help is appreciated, thanks.
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Torque Owner Todd Johnson
#1
12/04/2004 (12:32 pm)
Those extra files are used to create the player.dts. They are not necessary so I made their files anyways. Unfortunately, this did not solve the slow loading. I don't see why it's taking so long?

When I did a query and waited for the connect (about 7 minutes) it finally connected but the lag icon was up the whole time and I couldn't do anything. Again, if I connect via lan, I play with no problem.

Also, I have friends that query my server in hte master list. When they try to connect from there, nothing happens. Can someone please help?

Torque Owner Todd Johnson
#2
12/04/2004 (12:33 pm)
Also, I didn't use a router or anything when I hosted for my friends to connect and we both have great connections.

Associate Kyle Carter
#3
12/04/2004 (12:43 pm)
Are you sure you're connecting to _your_ server? It seems like if files are transmittting you might have accidentally connected to someone else's.

Torque Owner Todd Johnson
#4
12/04/2004 (1:28 pm)
Yea I'm positive it's my server. I set it to a unique max numbers so I'm sure it is it. I'll take it down and won't see in the master list. Also, I used the "quickconnect" function that was resourced a while back and my friends and myself connect just fine. Is there something different with connecting via the master list?