Dumbest thing to occupy yourself during the loading screens? : IV

» Thu May 19, 2011 8:32 am

Some of us who suffer the long loading screens (mainly console players), i was wondering what is some of the dumb stuff do you do while the game is loading. Yes, all of us do it, and i know most of us do.

Dumbest thing i do to occupy myself would be making dumb noises and hum stupid tunes. Why? i'm very unsure why, i usually don't even realize i'm doing it (and no, i don't have some mental issue).

How about you?

» Wed May 18, 2011 11:13 pm

Im quite boring and I read the manual when it loads. Lol

» Thu May 19, 2011 8:06 am

I usually read the text from the loading screens in a silly accent :biggrin:

» Thu May 19, 2011 1:20 am

Strange. I'm on a console, and I know the loading screens are longer than on PC's, but I've never really felt the gap. I just sit there and wait!

If there is a need I get a drink or maybe take a bathroom break, but I do that even during gameplay, so it's nothing special. I like sovern's idea though, might try that!

» Thu May 19, 2011 3:23 am

I usually stare at the loading bar, look away for about ten seconds and stare at it again, so it looks like it's loading faster.

I won

» Wed May 18, 2011 9:04 pm

I play xbox, watch tv or maybe take a drink or eat. Long live generation m

» Thu May 19, 2011 6:52 am

I play on my Xbox 360 so the wait times aren't as miserable. I'm assuming you guys are playing the PC version. But the if they do get slow then I'll (ashamed to admit this) start singing along with the background music.

» Wed May 18, 2011 10:55 pm

I play on my Xbox 360 so the wait times aren't as miserable. I'm assuming you guys are playing the PC version. But the if they do get slow then I'll (ashamed to admit this) start singing along with the background music.

I play on the PC, and my load times are comparable to those on the 360 with about 120 mods installed and roughly 20Gb worth of asset data. Even then, the only really long load times are on the initial game load and the initial exterior worldspace load. And those only take about 20 to 30 seconds. With 120 mods, some of which are HUGE. At this point, I would say on average, my load times are about ten to twelve seconds.

Completely vanilla, the load times are only a couple seconds. Ten seconds at most.

If you have a good PC, it will MURDER the 360 in terms of performance and load breaks.

» Wed May 18, 2011 9:43 pm

I'm assuming you guys are playing the PC version.

From the opening post: "long loading screens (mainly console players)."

Just for kicks I timed my opening loading screen three times: 3 to 4 seconds long. I'm on PC.

» Thu May 19, 2011 2:43 am

What the heck are you guys talking about? I'm on 360, and my loading screens on average are about five seconds. Course, it is installed to the hard drive.

» Thu May 19, 2011 5:06 am

What the heck are you guys talking about? I'm on 360, and my loading screens on average are about five seconds. Course, it is installed to the hard drive.

You can expect double to triple that time if you keep all the game files on the disc. Since some people out there might not have a hard drive for their 360 thanks to the Arcade version, this does matter.

» Thu May 19, 2011 4:19 am

I mainly just sit there (because mine are not very long), but sometimes if it is a long one, I will look at the image in the background and make weird remarks about it. i.e. "Oh that Goblin is acting strangely today!"

» Thu May 19, 2011 8:11 am

Read the advice, admire the art, sip my tea.

» Wed May 18, 2011 11:31 pm

I usually change the channel. I have internet on my TV, so I'll often come here to browse the forums. Or I'll look up something on UESP. Or I'll do something else I can't mention here without getting another forum warning. :verymad:

Actually, Oblivion's loads aren't really that bad compared to some other games. But I'm on PS3 with no mods or extra stuff running the background.

Perhaps this is why.

» Thu May 19, 2011 2:49 am

Just a few seconds for a loading screen for me, on a PC.

So not much time to do anything. Sometimes I look at the screen for details like the location it is showing. I guess that's not the "dumbest thing", but it's what I do.

» Thu May 19, 2011 12:51 am

My laptop can't handle Oblivion, so I'm getting huge lags every now and then. My loading screens lasts from 10-30 seconds, and I just stare at the screen 'till it loads.

» Thu May 19, 2011 1:28 am

I play on my Xbox 360 so the wait times aren't as miserable. I'm assuming you guys are playing the PC version. But the if they do get slow then I'll (ashamed to admit this) start singing along with the background music.

LOL I do that to :yes:

» Thu May 19, 2011 4:08 am

Well me, being an absolute idiot, I like to try to load my friend's list (I do play on Xbox) and see who is online. It could just be my old fart console but when the loading screens are up, the Xbox guide is laggy and wont load until the loading screen is finished. So I end up just sitting there.

» Thu May 19, 2011 12:00 am

I beatbox, it is where I first started to learn to do it as well becuase I play music when I play.

Dubstep/Liquid DnB.

» Thu May 19, 2011 5:13 am

When my computer was crap, I would take a drink and stretch, but now I only have like 3 seconds during the loading screen, so I crack my knuckles real quick and get back to it. If I just came from an area (say, go from one section of a dungeon to another and back), I won't even get a loading screen.

» Thu May 19, 2011 10:54 am

Answer unread text messages from people I've been ignoring due to Oblivion taking up my life (READ:Everyone)
Go get a drink, or use the restroom
Look at the pretty pictures for the millionth time

» Wed May 18, 2011 11:54 pm

My laptop can't handle Oblivion, so I'm getting huge lags every now and then. My loading screens lasts from 10-30 seconds, and I just stare at the screen 'till it loads.

this makes me sad

» Wed May 18, 2011 8:40 pm

this makes me sad

Yeah, same here. I don't remember the load times when I played on my inferior rig, but as others here have mentioned, my load screens are darned near instantaneous now. I'm glad I was talked out of going console, especially when I hit the 250+hour glitch, which was a snap to fix on PC.

» Thu May 19, 2011 12:43 am

gaze into the abyss that is my soul and question my very existence :icecream:

» Thu May 19, 2011 3:09 am

try and figure out where in the game the loading screen pic is.