Saving to memory pause - weird

[Guest]

Ah... Duh, It does save to the hard drive. I was only thinking memory because a friend of mine built the exact same system but his doesn't pause after saving... I've watched him play. Actually the only difference between my system and his is that I have 256 of DDR memory and his has 196 or SDR and his processor is only 1 GHZ not 1.3GHZ like mine. Our hard drives are exactly the same! Does this happen for other people or is mine the only one that freezes for a sec after a save. How come my friends doesn't!? It just doesn't make sense... But thanks for your help... images/icons/smile.gif

[Pepe]

Mine does the same, not really a problem I think.
Most people around here have bigger issues

[Guest]

For some reason when saving the game... with the Quick Save button... F5, after displaying Game Saved the whole game pauses for about 2 seconds before resuming. Not like when you really pause the game with the P button but just locks up and then unfreezes. I have Crucial 256MB DDRAM so I don't think its the memory, I've never had a problem with that before. Everything in my system is brand new... I just built it but here's the specs if you can find something wrong with them:

AMD Athlon 1.33GHZ (266FSB)
Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 64MB AGP
ASUS A7A-266 Thunderbird ALI MB motherboard
Western Digital 20GB ATA-100 (7200RPM)
Sound Blaster 128 PCI Sound Card
Crucial 256MB DDRAM

[hyte1]

I think this is normal, I dont think its a problem! When you do a quicksave, it saves to the Hard disk. This is what causes the short pause in the game, untill the hard drive has finished been written to, the game freezes.

[SamiV]

The brief "freeze" you are experiencing actually comes from taking the screenshot for the savegame. Eg, the smaller the resolution you play in, the faster the saving is.

You experience a similar brief delay when you press Esc to get to the menu's (since you can save the game there, we take a screenshot always when you go to the menu's).

So it's not a problem in your system, it's just the way the game works. Hopefully this clears you up on the situation!

SamiV.

[Guest]

Thanks for clearing that up! I never even thought about that at all. Just like when you press F10 to take a screenshot images/icons/smile.gif Duh for me... But thanks for sending an offical response I'm glad to know you care enough to help clear even minor things up! BTW: Great game, I just beat it today!