Cancel loading of spring on startup

[Floris]

Sometimes I'm idling in the lobby and a new game start all of a sudden.

Because I was busy doing something else i have to wait until the game gets fully loaded and then via the shift+esc menu quit the game.

Is there some shortcut availible that allows me to quit the game at the time of the loadscreen?

If not.... maybe implement one? Or if it already is implemented then show the shortcut tip @ the loadscreen?

(maybe only for spectators if you dont want to make it too easy for players to quit)

[gajop]

kill -9 $spring_id

[Beherith]

end process in task manager.

[Peet]

Run spring from an SSD so it takes all of 10 seconds to load

[jK]

Run spring from an SSD so it takes all of 10 seconds to load

Or use Linux. Once loaded already (with the same map), loading occurs from RAM io cache and is faster than anything else.

[jK]

Is there some shortcut availible that allows me to quit the game at the time of the loadscreen?

There already is an early-exit during loadscreen, just click the close button of window or use taskbar (still there are breaking points that need to be reached, so exit is not immediately). Also for Linux: when started from bash you can ctrl+c it to force and fast exit (it softkills after 3sec and hardkills after 10s).

[Silentwings]

You could take the radical step of not sitting idle in battles when you don't want to spectate or play...