[The rendered environments and load times...]

I actually wrote an app specifically to test read times on my own HDD. It's several years old and has often been completely filled with data. I timed 300MB at less than a second.

I dont know what you measured but it sure wasnt hdd performance, physics prohibits it as of today(maybe yesterday), no matter SATA version, especially for any several years old 5400rpm drive. Maybe you saw a zero too many? 30MB/s is more realistic.

[The rendered environments and load times...]

 

what long load times? 

I am seeing only a few seconds to load, and my system is a bit dated and is currently using a cheap hard drive instead of a fast one.  I would think a raid0 high speed drive pair would be nearly instant.  Or a flash drive.

You would be wrong. Long load times for some computers is a known problem. I get ~10 sec load screens on my fairly decent rig.

As Sensuki points out the largest area file is something like 312 MB. Any modern HDD can read that in less than a second.

 

 This post is so ridiculous i just couldnt resist. That average reading speed of a modern HDD can be as low as .7MB/sec for a fragmented HDD. It would need 7 minutes to read 300mb, not one second so you just exaggerated by a factor of x450. Realistically speeds of about 50MB/s are to be expected, so would still need at least a couple of seconds just for reading such a file.

[Question about the game]

I just checked to see if this is anything more than another IWD remake because that doesnt go well financially and for me personally i dont like dull slowpaced hack&slash games, but hey if people funded this obviously they want it so more power to them. Peace.

[Question about the game]

Thanks, 6 out of 6, now i know what to do.

[Heya !]

Thanks for the missle wand and goodbye.

[RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS]

Yay 2 posts remaining for a full account... Did anyone mention Dead or Alive 5 http://store.steampowered.com/app/311730/ coming to PC in a month. A Japanese, console, fighting game, coming to PC. Will preorder in February. The world is turning upside down.

[Diablo 3 new patch]

This is really awkward, i feel like a spammer. Anyway.. Wow Diablo's got a new patch, i probably should buy the addon, the base game grinding kinda turned me away.

[What are you playing now?]

I dont understand why i have to post 5 posts when its obvious im not a spambot but anyway here goes..

im playing.. hmm im playing Romance of the Three Kindoms IX now, certainly a slightly different kind of a game.

[Question about the game]

Spell reuse based on "sleep"
Icewind Dale UI and style
pointless dialog choices
Kreia style dialogs
talking to every object including lamps to get quests
dull towns full of redundancy

How many of these points are in Pillars of Eternety?