Hi All....

let's make a short summary first:

1) You have loooong battle loading time (you appear in battle after countdown - in my case 20+ seconds. Unacceptable....)

2) You have powerful HW enough - means CPU, GPU, lot of RAM ( in my case i5 3.4 GHz, RX480 8GB, 16 GB RAM DDR3 1866)

3) BUT you DON'T have SSD HD, just classic HDD (in my case some WD 7200 1TB). Whole game (and system too) installed there....

What we know already (others found before) ? : It seems, that optimization of audio is crippled somehow in 1.0, and this is what prolongs battle loading time a lot. Unacceptable long...

What is audio packages 1.0 use : (usual location,,,, depends where you installed game)

c:\Games\World_of_Tanks\res\packages\audioww-part1.pkg

c:\Games\World_of_Tanks\res\packages\audioww-part2.pkg

(some 1.3 GB in total)

Is it your problem ?: Try to disable sound (in game client), restart client... try one battle without sound. Was battle loading time acceptable now ? (I bet it was,,, as for thousands of other players, as you can find from forums)

If you HAVE a SSD, then solution COULD (not MUST, as I can see some people where it didn't helped), be moving audio packages there, and then "mklink" them... (works for a lot of people,,,, for those didn't - continue reading)

BUT YOU DON'T HAVE SSD. WHAT TO DO ?

Solution !!!!

RAMDISK

I expect you have enough RAM. I have 16GB = pretty OK, 8GB would be OK too... I have no idea if 4GB (you can try... but you will need to free up some 1.5 GB)

1) download some RAMDisk SW - in my case RadeonRAMDisk - free edition is pretty enough it can do up to 4BG Ramdisk, if you have no problem with advertisement little window on your desktop....I don't). Works for WIN 7,8,10...

http://www.radeonram...e_downloads.php

(there is a lot of other SW does exactly the same e.g. DataRAMdisk seems is the same as one from Radeon, IMDisk Toolkit, SoftPerfect RAMdisk etc......) Doesn't matter. Download some you like and can do at least 1.5 GB ramdisk

2) Install it and run RAMDISK SW. I did 2GB size (better adressing - have enough RAM.... but 1.4 would be enough). Select drive letter - "Z:" in my case (default from Radeon SW)

(you can play with setup, eg. to create backup .img automatically to reload RAMDISK content after computer restart and keep backup... but it doesn't matter now...)

3) Create folder on your RAMDISK.... I did Z:\WOTaudio\

4) Copy both audio packages there (see above, those .pkg files)

5) If you copied files (didn't moved) rename them in original location (give them e.g. .old extesion or so,,,, doesn't matter what.... files of that name simply CAN'T exist in original loaction c:\Games\World_of_Tanks\res\packages\

IMPORTANT : Anyhow KEEP them both somewhere. If you MOVED them,,, you can lost them once computer is restarted, if you didn't setup some backup in our RAMDISK software )

6) RUN command line AS ADMIN !!!! (you need admin rights) - e.g. WINsearch for "cmd",,, once command line appears, right click and Run as Administrator

7) make link for them

In my case:

mklink c:\Games\World_of_Tanks\res\packages\audioww-part1.pkg z:\WOTaudio\audioww-part1.pkg

mklink c:\Games\World_of_Tanks\res\packages\audioww-part2.pkg z:\WOTaudio\audioww-part2.pkg

where

c:\Games\World_of_Tanks\res\packages\ - is original loaction

and

z:\WOTaudio\ - is new - RAMDISK location

See screenshot below... system would answer symbolic link was created and you would see zero size files or the same name in original location.

If you don't something went wrong (incorrect path, no admin rights in command line etc... try again - it MUST work if you follow those points correctly)

8) run the game (with audio enabled - of course ) and enjoy normal "battle loading"... I'm in battle 20 seconds of coundown remains.... pretty gooooood

9) You did it? Works it now ? ... call me "Master of Universe" since now - forever

NOTE: THIS DO NOT SOLVE INITIAL IN-BATTLE FREEZE WHEN YOU FIRST LOOK AROUND (even this seems to be shorter ... 1-3 seconds max in my case)

/I'll try to analyze it too.... but have no time on today/