BF2042 reads too much data from the drive
So I've just randomly noticed how much does the game read data from a drive, even when you're just sitting in the main menu doing nothing for 5 minutes straight. For example, here i'm just starting ...
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When you open "Resource Monitor" and sort Disk by "Total (B/sec)", what are the top file paths that the game is reading from?
Don't know how the data in these cas files (up to 255 MB each as it seems) is organized but one theory could be that they always read scene data in big chunks even if they only need a small part of the chunk and then throw away the rest.
That would be really bad of course but could explain the choppy and laggy game performance. PCIe is basically always loaded with huge amount of data read from SSD into RAM/VRAM.
