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>> Map release: faster load times [message #57795]

Sun, 14 December 2003 05:57

DaveGMM
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O I had that loading cheat way back you can ask CW Wink

Fortunately, no-one cares.

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #57840]

Sun, 14 December 2003 12:34

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They won't be any different for me. It takes around 6 seconds to laod up a map if Renegade hasn't loaded before. Any map loaded thereafter loads in less than 2 seconds. But it used to take much longer, since I installed my an extra 512MB of ram it has always loaded that fast.

Great job though if it loads fast on slower system.

Your loss... I have an AMD Athlon 2400+ and a gig of DDR RAM... I thought my maps loaded "fast enough" too until I tried these.

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #57841]

Sun, 14 December 2003 12:35

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Demolition man

O I had that loading cheat way back you can ask CW Wink

Yeah, I'm waiting for them to say something about that. Very Happy

They wouldn't believe that Dante told Blazer and I how to do it when we met him in September.

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #57855]

Sun, 14 December 2003 15:51

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How come mesa and normal city arnt in there?

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #57858]

Sun, 14 December 2003 16:14

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I only saw one map in it when I extracted it, and that was walls_flying.

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #57866]

Sun, 14 December 2003 17:56

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No - It's a good idea, they made a great improvement on my Duron 1.2 Ghz system. I've tried them on my system and they seem to make no difference at all.

Strange thing was that on a system better than mine, (P4 HT Extreme 3.2 Ghz 1536MB DDR Shocked

) before the new maps it took around 5 seconds per map but the new ones bought it down to < 2 seconds.

It's great for my Duron, from around 30 seconds to around 2 it is a great improvement.

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #57872]

Sun, 14 December 2003 18:36

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How come mesa and normal city arnt in there?

Shit, I'll check my files again.

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #57873]

Sun, 14 December 2003 18:40

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I erased Mesa Mad

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #57882]

Sun, 14 December 2003 19:49

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hey what systems u have 1 gig ram 2.4Ghz Shocked

2 tell ya guys i run renegade on a Intel 810 Very Happy

with 191 ram and onboard video Very Happy

so straight to the topic - what is the newest update path for RENEGADE

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #57887]

Sun, 14 December 2003 20:31

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I erased Mesa Mad

ahahaha i backed my maps up incase these maps where shite

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #57925]

Mon, 15 December 2003 10:22

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I've downloaded this about 5 times now and I keep getting the same error. Only the Walls_flying fix extracts from the archive.

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #57927]

Mon, 15 December 2003 10:37

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I tested the RAR when I uploaded it and others get it no problem... have you tried getting it off FilePlanet instead?

I'll get City and Mesa in there soon. I don't know why they weren't in there.

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #57931]

Mon, 15 December 2003 11:17

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I've downloaded from both sources and get the same error from both.

*edit*

I found the problem. WinAce didn't like the archive but when I opened it under Winrar after installing it the archive extracted.

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #57941]

Mon, 15 December 2003 11:41

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Yeah - never unzip rar files with WinACE as it normally throws out an error.

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #57942]

Mon, 15 December 2003 11:58

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Hasn't made a difference in load times for me yet. On hourglass I noticed different textures though. The middle tunnel has the ugly old brick texture and some cliff looking texture is blended into the dirt around the map, I think there should be grass or different dirt in it's place? I can't remember. Just, weird textures...

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #57943]

Mon, 15 December 2003 12:10

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uh, we didn't touch the textures. These weren't even opened in Level Edit... just XCC Mixer.

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #57952]

Mon, 15 December 2003 13:40

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Well, I came back to play a game of renegade after reading about your tweaks...holy s*!^!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My maps load super fast now...most impressive. And yes, I am still around Smile

I play CS mosly now.

Peace out,

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #57977]

Mon, 15 December 2003 16:43

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Very nice work. Even on my XP 3000+ I can notice the difference by just comparing the optimized C&C_City_Flying and the unoptimized C&C_City. In case nobody noticed, I've added it to PCNC's files area with a glowing review.

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i get this error [message #59738]

Mon, 29 December 2003 22:08

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i have deleted all my matching thu files but still get this. basically like 10 errors involving all the files in the rar.

http://n00bstories.com/image.view.php?id=1264211939

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #59746]

Mon, 29 December 2003 23:30

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Maps go in the Data directory.

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #59747]

Tue, 30 December 2003 00:01

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Hmm, I unfortunatelly have seen no changes. Each map still takes around 15 seconds to load, and have a good (not great) computer. I have played Renegade using the maps around 25 times now. I have reinstalled them hoping there would be a difference, but none yet Sad

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #59793]

Tue, 30 December 2003 12:22

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Crimson did you add City and Mesa into the download? And Glacier Flying wasn't included either. They are pretty good though they load like fan maps now.

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>> Map release: faster load times [message #71218]

Fri, 12 March 2004 08:58

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City & mesa still need to be added to the file planet archive, and I cannot download the one off n00bstories FTP. Is there a new link for ftp.n00bstories or was it removed?

Anyway, these two maps would be appreciated. thanks.

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