During loading times

[subtlefuge]

I haven't played a single player game in forever. While I'm waiting for a match in something, I'll read on my Kindle though. That and giving plasma is where I get a large amount of my leisure reading in.

As far as Game of Thrones goes, you'll have a hard time only reading half a page once you get to Storm of Swords, and a hard time even reading half a page of Feast for Crows.

 

[Elate]

PC, I never have a loading time that is over 20 seconds.

Are there even PC games with load times that long? I don't remember any game in the last 2 years have one longer than 5 secs, unless you count total war when all the AI's take their turn.

Skyrim maxed out, with lots of lovely mods, sometimes pushes it. But genuinely, I have a game on steam, I browse.

 

[Alpha Maeko]

I usually don't wait more then 10 - 20 seconds, so there's really nothing I can do except take a drink.

 

[ResonanceSD]

PC, I never have a loading time that is over 20 seconds.

Are there even PC games with load times that long? I don't remember any game in the last 2 years have one longer than 5 secs, unless you count total war when all the AI's take their turn.

Skyrim maxed out, with lots of lovely mods, sometimes pushes it. But genuinely, I have a game on steam, I browse.

Solid. State. Drive.

I didn't know that Skyrim had movable objects in its loading screens till i saw it on a friend's.. Lower spec. PC.

 

[Timedraven 117]

Go onto my dead frontier accont and RP. I do that all day and all so i take the time in loading screens to check.

 

[Elate]

PC, I never have a loading time that is over 20 seconds.

Are there even PC games with load times that long? I don't remember any game in the last 2 years have one longer than 5 secs, unless you count total war when all the AI's take their turn.

Skyrim maxed out, with lots of lovely mods, sometimes pushes it. But genuinely, I have a game on steam, I browse.

Solid. State. Drive.

I didn't know that Skyrim had movable objects in its loading screens till i saw it on a friend's.. Lower spec. PC.

Yeah me either, till I saw it on my brothers PS3... But no, I won't touch SSDs.. I've seen first hand the crap they can cause when they go awry, maybe in another 10 years.

 

[wintercoat]

Long loading times, eh? Well you know what that means.

 

[Valthek]

I started sorting my magic collection during loading times.
It didn't last long. Some 10 boxes full of cards... by colour, rarity, alphabetical...
Either I need to game less or find something with shorter loading times.

 

[ResonanceSD]

PC, I never have a loading time that is over 20 seconds.

Are there even PC games with load times that long? I don't remember any game in the last 2 years have one longer than 5 secs, unless you count total war when all the AI's take their turn.

Skyrim maxed out, with lots of lovely mods, sometimes pushes it. But genuinely, I have a game on steam, I browse.

Solid. State. Drive.

I didn't know that Skyrim had movable objects in its loading screens till i saw it on a friend's.. Lower spec. PC.

Yeah me either, till I saw it on my brothers PS3... But no, I won't touch SSDs.. I've seen first hand the crap they can cause when they go awry, maybe in another 10 years.

? The tech has hugely improved since launch. Whatever floats your boat.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Usually have a movie or youtube series running on the other screen, also very helpful with tedious games.

 

[Laser Priest]

Generally, that is the time I take to pace around the room and shout random things.

Anyone who lives near me likely thinks I'm insane.

 

[RastaBadger]

Generally I have a book next to me that doesn't have too much in it. Books of quotes and stuff like that. At the moment I have the Star Trek encyclopedia next to me so every time I hit a loading screen I skip to a random page and read some stuff on it.

 

[Erttheking]

Screwing around on my iPod for the most part.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I don't even have time to reading the loading screen tip. Never mind do anything else xD

 

[Alssadar]

I either jump my mouse around the loading screen, finding every crevice it can fit into, read the back of my game boxes, or wait patiently.
Sometimes, I nibble on some munchies.

 

[putowtin]

always have a book close to hand for those annoying moments in life:

Speaking to my sister on the phone
speaking to my mother on the phone
game loading
speaking to my gran on the phone

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Take a drink, use the bathroom, get more nibblies, whatever I have time for.

Most of the time I answer texts that I missed, or forgot that I had, and get more of whatever I'm drinking.

I remember during Skyrim I would see how many times I can rotate the object on screen before it stops. Me singing "You spin me Round" is optional, but a must if I'm bored.

 

[strangemoose]

scratch my nuts/check cnn with ipod

 

[yundex]

PC, I never have a loading time that is over 20 seconds.

Are there even PC games with load times that long? I don't remember any game in the last 2 years have one longer than 5 secs, unless you count total war when all the AI's take their turn.

Skyrim maxed out, with lots of lovely mods, sometimes pushes it. But genuinely, I have a game on steam, I browse.

Solid. State. Drive.

I didn't know that Skyrim had movable objects in its loading screens till i saw it on a friend's.. Lower spec. PC.

Yeah me either, till I saw it on my brothers PS3... But no, I won't touch SSDs.. I've seen first hand the crap they can cause when they go awry, maybe in another 10 years.

? The tech has hugely improved since launch. Whatever floats your boat.

Can you post some game benchmark comparisons for SSD's and regular 10k RPM hard drives? I cannot find any that I understand.

 

[Gottesstrafe]

For console games, my tv has the option of bringing up a small window on the screen that can display what's happening on another channel without the audio. Since you can switch between the channel on the small window and the channel on the overall screen, I can easily watch tv while waiting on a loading screen and switch back as soon as it's done with the press of a button.

On my PC I just hit Start+D to return to the desktop and bring up my browser to look at por- interesting wikipedia articles.