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Conner36

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Size Decrease
« on: July 06, 2006, 07:41:11 pm »
How was 100 MB dropped from version 14b to 15?
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Wired_Crawler

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Re: Size Decrease
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2006, 07:58:57 pm »
0.3.015 uses images in different format, DDS instead of PNG, TGA and JPG. DDS provides higher compression ratio, it also loads faster to memory of graphics card.
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Conner36

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Re: Size Decrease
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2006, 08:11:00 pm »
Cool  :thumbup:
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dfryer

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Re: Size Decrease
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2006, 11:47:36 pm »
PS 015, half the fat, all the flavour!
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