Quote Originally Posted by I'm a zambi View Post
Ah yes, I forgot that step. You must move the maps into your maps folder once you download them.


Well, relatively speaking. It still takes me ages to load ZM maps. GG maps are near-instantaneous though. I guess it's all the mod data or something.
Its because a gg map normally only has brushes (blocks) And a couple of entities and thats about it,hence the quick load time. Where as a zm/ze map can sometimes have up to 1000+ entities and
also weird and wonderful shapes so the source engine also has to deal with that and many other things like the light_environments and where all the light bounce off etc..

In short ze/zm maps are huge compared to gg maps. Thats why they take longer