preload textures

[BigR]

For the past couple months Ive been having an issue with texture preloading. If i have it checked in the video options, it takes forever to load them all. I'm talking about 3-4 minutes of loading. Well the problem is that during that time, while the textures are loading I almost always get a "host connection lost" message. So basically it just kicks me out of the game. Its impossible for me to preload textures right now. I have to load them as I see them which is annoying because it causes small freezes sometimes. Another problem is when I alt tab, it has to reload all  the textures over again from scratch. I dont know if its because I am using the 1024 textures or what, but i just dont remember it taking such a long time before.

[Skuzzy]

There should be only three things which would effect the texture preload.

1)  Fragmentation.  If the files are badly fragemented it could take a long while to load them.
2)  Too many files.  If you are preloading skins, stop it, or reduce the number of skins.
3)  Not enough resources available.  If Windows has to make room for each texture load, it could takea long while to preload.  Vista users who have not shut down SuperFetch could experience this.  Winodws XP users should not, if the computer has enough RAM and there are not many processes running in the background.

There could be other things that effect it, possibly other programs which could aggravate it, but I think the above would be the most likely candidates given what I know about your computer, which is nothing.

[BigR]

thanks Skuzzy, ill defrag and stop preloading skins.