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Support => Technical Help: IN GAME bugs (after loading world) => Topic started by: Cwvym Purh on January 04, 2006, 07:06:39 pm

Title: performance question - compressed textures
Post by: Cwvym Purh on January 04, 2006, 07:06:39 pm

I noticed the textures are packaged in zip files, are they compressed and would it improve performance to decompress them or is the format integral to the program?

Just a thought.

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Post by: Bereror on January 04, 2006, 07:32:01 pm

I think some people have tried re-compressing these zip files with no compression option (like \"store only\" or whatever it is called :) ). I am not sure you will gain too much from it, but it might be worth trying.

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Post by: acraig on January 04, 2006, 07:51:37 pm

Crystal Space reads zip files as a virtual directory so I am not sure it would increase performance at all if they are unzipped.  The only thing that I could see that *might* be faster is in the initial loading of them.  Once they are in the engine how they are initial stored isn\'t really a factor in how fast they are rendered/drawn.

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Post by: Cwvym Purh on January 06, 2006, 09:09:28 am

Thanks for the answer. I think I would rather get ram then experiment.