Age of Conan

I read a thread in the AoC EU forums about how to reduce the loading times when you zone and die - and it works like a charm for me! When you zone to a place where much data in loaded it does, of course, still take some secs, but the most annoying loading screens when you die or zone to a small area are gone.

The file is located under (this is from Vista, is probably a bit different on XP) [You user directory]\AppData\Local\Funcom\Conan\Prefs\[Your account name]\Prefs_1.xml (some users have Prefs_2.xml)

Change:

[code]<Value name="SplashScreenFadeOutTime" value="5.000000" />[/code]
to
[code]<Value name="SplashScreenFadeOutTime" value="0.000000" />[/code]

and

[code]<Value name="SplashScreenFadeInTime" value="2.000000" />[/code]
to
[code]<Value name="SplashScreenFadeInTime" value="0.000000" />[/code]

This reduced loading times between zones to just a flash.

I guess there might be side effects on slow systems such as textures, NPCs etc not fully loaded when you come out, but they pop up in a few seconds.

On my machine it's a whole new game!

SPREAD THE WORD!

I have no idea why Funcom has set these default timers, but I am a happy camper now.

p.s. Same settings can be found in: ..\Age of Conan\cd_image\Gui\Default\LoginPrefs.xml

Have no clue if you can change that instead. My example above works atleast.

Hmmm, nobody else tried it?

Come on, it's working and it really imporves - try it out!

 omfg thanks alot man , that helped heaps ..

Thanks !

That's great find, thanks for sharing!

Glad to help!

I am so shocked they put that fadein/out ingame. Funcom explain it or let people know about how to fix it - you are ruining your own game by having this...

Now the rest of you - try it, you won't regret it.

EDIT: THE SOLUTION BELOW DOES NOT WORK FOR ME

Only the solution where you replace the values in your "user folder", as I did in the first post of this thread works...

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Here is a much easier solution - with the same result:

Try this guys.

1. Go to this directory ...\Funcom\Age of Conan\cd_image\Gui\Default
(default: C:\Program Files\Funcom\Age of Conan\cd_image\Gui\Default)

2.Copy the file LoginPrefs.xml to ...\Funcom\Age of Conan\cd_image\Gui\Customized

3. Open the LoginPrefs.xml in your Customized directory with Notepad or WordPad.

4. Edit these lines

<Value name="SplashScreenFadeInTime" min="0.0" max="15.0" value="2.0" />
  <Value name="SplashScreenFadeOutTime" min="0.0" max="15.0" value="5.0" />

to

<Value name="SplashScreenFadeInTime" min="0.0" max="15.0" value="0.0" />
  <Value name="SplashScreenFadeOutTime" min="0.0" max="15.0" value="0.0" />

Or any value you prefer.

Weird. Usually these types of games list an option for this feature where you can select if everything would be loaded with longer load times or shorter load times but with pop-ups.