One account slower to load than another?

[trixi]

Anyone else got one login server account that loads slower than another?
Better yet anyone got any suggestions as to how i can speed the slow one up?

Load times are almost double on one of my accounts (the oldest one) than they are on one of my other ones.

[Kingly_Krab]

That depends, are you loading up the second account on a second client after loading up the first account?

[trixi]

Ok so I usually load up account A on a seperate install and seperate HDD, then load up account B. Account A significantly slower than account B.

I have tried the reverse order also, same result. I have also tried loading up accounts on opposite installs/drives, same result.

From what I can tell it is something that is specific to account A that is causing it to load /zone slower. I could be completely wrong though, but I'm all outta ideas.

[Kingly_Krab]

That's quite weird, maybe it's just a placebo. By that I mean maybe you think it's slower, or it just happens to be slower but there is no real issue causing it.

[chrsschb]

If that second HDD has been unused for a while it's possible it's in power saving mode and needs a moment to spin up. Pretty normal.

Edit: You said it seems to be specific to Account A, regardless of which HDD you use? Hmm. Can you test if it's server-specific? Character-specific?

[trixi]

Yeah it is a genuine issue, it's quite a significant difference in load times. I've noticed it for a looong time now but never really thought to post about it as it was never really an issue. Recently i have started playing on a server that needs a lot of zoning and it's starting to get a bit irritating >_<

@chrsschb: it isnt server specific, I have noticed it across several different emu servers. always the same account that is slower irrespective of which HDD it loads from. I havent checked if it is character specific, so will give that a shot - incidentally account A has typically been where i have made my first character on each server; I wonder if that could have any influence.

Edit: OK gave it a shot and account A still loads slower. Not sure if i mentioned it earlier or not but it also loads slower to the character select screen than account B, which kinda makes me think it is a flag or something on the login server side or something that might be causing it. I'm far too technically inept to try and work these things out, hence I was hoping someone else might have encountered the same problem and found a way to resolve it ;)

Thanks for helping guys.

[Uleat]

I'm not asking you to create an 'Account C' .. but, you wouldn't happen to have one?

If 'C' was created later than 'B' and it was slower also...

[trixi]

Yeah I Do Uleat, and it is pretty much the same in terms of load times as account B. ie; much faster than account A. To the point i have considered not using account A at all and just using the other two - except that all my main toons are on account A >_<

Edit: Account A and B were made on March 22, 2014 according to the account services tab here - and C was made June 04, 2014. I would have sworn i made B and C at the same time, which was some time after A but guess I am wrong.

[Uleat]

I was gonna throw out there that the faster account may be part of an optimized cache and the slower one may have to be read from the hard drive itself.

I honestly have no idea since I don't have access to the login server..but, it would be interesting to hear if other people are having this problem as well.

[chrsschb]

I was gonna throw out there that the faster account may be part of an optimized cache and the slower one may have to be read from the hard drive itself.

I honestly have no idea since I don't have access to the login server..but, it would be interesting to hear if other people are having this problem as well.

Yeah, they'd have to come forth though. I have tons of accounts created anywhere from 2006 to 2014 and I've never experienced this.