Does a bigger hard drive mean faster respawn times?

[TheDvEight]

Title says it all really, i normally am able to spawn from between 5-7 seconds but i notice some people spawn almost stright away.

And I ended up asking them how they did it, they said it was becuase of there hard drives? is this true?

Cheers DD

[Tutonic]

Nope, complete and utter tosh.

Its a server variable, and has nothing to do with the hardware in your PC.

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[TE_owner]

wot he said gov'

[Naldo]

It's weird you know, as I would say 95% of the time I am always the first to spawn on a new map.
Sometimes waiting for my team to spawn so I can take off in the copper.

Don't know why.

[DrunkenZombiee]

If you have a fast SSD then you will load the map faster than someone who has a 5400 RPM HDD as information such as textures etc need to be loaded into RAM.

It also depends on your computers architecture as the new i7's have a better interface between the CPU, RAM and GPU and more cache than older chips.

These two points only apply when loading the map for the first time and not when re-spawning after your first death. Your Baud-width and latency of your connection will be another important determining factor.

The in game timer will not be effected by any of these as it will use the CPU cycles of the server to determine when you spawn.

Hope this helps to clarify.

DZ

[T-Bag]

The size of your hard drive has no impact on spawning. If you have a FAST hard drive you might load maps slightly faster, but the size has no impact (unless you're so short of space your computer is bogging down). After the initial spawn everyone is on level pegging. There's no further loading required so hardware has no effect.

[KKND]

Maybe your connection helps a bit!

[TheDvEight]

It's weird you know, as I would say 95% of the time I am always the first to spawn on a new map.
Sometimes waiting for my team to spawn so I can take off in the copper.

Don't know why.

Shrug* dunno buddy i also have a ping of between 150-200 for 5-10 seconds at the start of a new map when i spawn

[ArithonUK]

Dick, I practically laughed my arse off! The tears are still streaming down my face.

No, is the answer.

In BF:BC2 Spawning is on a timer. On our server 10 seconds I think. This cycles round and every time it hits zero, everyone dead gets the chance to respawn or stay in limbo. The counter resets to 10 seconds and cycles again.

Does that answer your question?

The size of your HD is irrelevant. It's access speed that's a factor when loading a new map, however that is also balanced by CPU, GPU, GPU, RAM and Motherboard speeds. You could have the largest and fastest SSD drive in the world on a 1GB netbook and it would still barely run most games. Removing one bottle-neck for perfomance, still leaves all the others there.

[TheDvEight]

Not really because that would mean everyone spawns at the same time at the start i dont know if its the case of them loading up the map quicker than me enableing them to spawn faster then?

[TwoBad]

Not really because that would mean everyone spawns at the same time at the start...

Yes but only if we all have the same rig, running the same setting, with the same internet connection etc etc.

I will quite often see ppl running about at the start of the map and i still have 2 or 3 seconds on my counter but that has a lot to do with me running eyefinity.  If i turn that off it don't happen (so much).

Take a look at this BFBC2 Some New Tweaks Some Not So NEW, might help you.

[ArithonUK]

Not really because that would mean everyone spawns at the same time at the start i dont know if its the case of them loading up the map quicker than me enableing them to spawn faster then?

If everyone had the same speed computer and internet connection, they would. However, slower PC's (disk speed, CPU, GPU, RAM) take longer to start a new map and hit the respawn cycle at different times. People (like TwoBad) with mega-super-massive video setups, take longer to load textures to video memory, so a slower PC with less demanding video requirements (i.e. 1204x768 res) would jump in faster. Other factors can be video drivers. Some ATI Drivers were slower at loading than others, as the driver software is a hurdle between the game and your hardware.

What spec. do you have? Are you running Win7/Vista? If so, look at your Performance Index in "Computer->Properties" as this will show you which hardware on your PC is the bottleneck.

[TheDvEight]

It doesnt bother me I Just wanted a bit of info about it out of morbid courisity but here are my specs

AMD Phenon(tm) 2 x2 545 processor 2.99Ghz
4gb Ram (3.12 Useable)
Radeon HD 5850 graphics
OCZ 500W PSU
300gb Hard drive

[DrunkenZombiee]

It doesnt bother me I Just wanted a bit of info about it out of morbid courisity but here are my specs

AMD Phenon(tm) 2 x2 545 processor 2.99Ghz
4gb Ram (3.12 Useable)
Radeon HD 5850 graphics
OCZ 500W PSU
300gb Hard drive

What RPM HDD with how much memory/cache etc? e.g. "500GB Seagate ST3500418AS Barracuda 7200.12, SATA 3Gb/s, 7200rpm, 16MB Cache, 9.5ms, NCQ."

What MOBO and RAM have you got?

DZ.

[TheDvEight]

2GB Patriot Signature (1x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Single Channel Module
500W OCZ StealthXStream 2 Power Supply
AMD Phenom II X2 Dual Core 545 3.00GHz (Socket AM3) Processor - Retail
320GB Hitachi HDT725032VLA360 3.5" SATA II Hard Drive
Arianet 2GB (1x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Single Channel Module
ASRock M3A785GMH/128M AMD 785 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Micro-ATX Motherboard