Faster processor make a game load faster?

How would a Faster processor make a game load faster? Doesn't all the data just need to be loaded from the hard drive into RAM and then processed once the level starts up? The only way I could think that the processor would need to process anytime of the loading is if it needs to uncompress data so it can be used.

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The faster, the better. It's as a matter of course, no one would object to it.

However, for instance, comparing Athlon with Pen4 at the same speed, it's another matter. It is said that Athlon has more calculating efficiency than Pen4. It means that according to the loading process or mechanism, Athlon is much faster than Pen4.

For extreme example, (^^;(In my opinion.)

Add the number, 1 to 100 = what?

Boy A, very quick in everything

1 + 2 + 3 +.........+ 99 + 100 =

Boy B, very clever, but at his slow pace in everything

1 + 100, times 50 =

Then, change the number

1 -100000 = what?

Boy A hangs up, "Oh! I can't do it."

Boy B says at his pace, " Oh!, It's so simple, The answer is.."

" 5000050000 "

A faster processer means faster fetch and execution of the data from memory. On loading a game, the required infomation is read from the hard drive and dumped in ram pretty quickly. I believe (and someone correct me if i'm wrong) that the time consuming part of loading the game is the fetch - execute cycle carried out by the cpu. The faster the cpu frequency, the faster (usually) the bus speed. Therefore, instructions can be fetched faster from ram and in turn, executed faster.
Hope that helps

Game load times are often slow due to the amount of data which must be read from the CD-ROM. Therefore, while upgrading your CPU may increase your performance while playing the game, you are still tied to the limits of the rest of your hardware so your load time might improve trivially, if at all. Ultimately, you want to not so much focus on CPU alone as the speed of the memory, hard drive, and your video card's performance. Which is why my P4-2.6 will blow most Dell/Gateway/OtherPCMaker P4-3.x machines out of the water in a benchmark as not all parts are created equal. Also, other things will degrade performance, like your anti-virus software, that stupid tool you never used and forgot about that came with your CD burner which is always in memory, etc.

In 3D Games, the geometry calculations are handed over to the CPU (things like 3D Objects, terrain etc) aswell as scripting in the game(AI, scipted sequences etc). And the CPU contolls all onboard technology, which is what can lag you down a bit if your not using any expansion cards.