Excessive Load-Time Lag? {how to lower map loading time?}

[AdamMighty]

Currently, my map has an excessively long loading time. It takes a good solid 1-3 minutes for everyone to finish loading. In this purely related to memory leaks, or is it just the sheer amount of custom content bogging it down? I was under the impression that memory leaks wouldn't affect the load-time, only the lag in-game. I have hundreds of custom units, triggers, spells, and so-forth and I've tried searching around the forums for tips in reducing load time specifically but haven't found anything that might be related. Anybody have any suggestions? Thanks for your time. =)

 

[Tr!KzZ]

The more you add, the more it takes to load, memory leaks shouldn't effect this, because they appear within the game, caused by some triggers and so on..
So I guess it's caused by all the custom stuff you have in the map, more doodads take longer to load, also more units, imported stuff and and and..

The triggers will cause starting laggs, if you use too many for "map initialization"
so try to remove stuff, or use some of the great tools here and there, I believe I've heard of a tool that can improve the loading time of maps, so it would perfectly fit for your problem, but I'm sorry, I can't remember the name of it.. (try wc3 optimizer, maybe it has some feature/function you could need)

 

[Slaydon]

Like: 0.001 seconds of the map has been reaveled or something

 

[graystuff111]

Imported models add a lot of loading time, try reducing these

 

[WilliamPa]

Use Widgetizer, cuts load time alot.

 

[AdamMighty]

Wow, Widgetizer is amazing! Thank you so much, my map now loads in like 10 seconds. Fantastic tool, thank you! =)