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How can I move the TTFS folder to ramdisk? [message #492286]

Tue, 25 April 2017 14:01

iRANian
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It's located in Appdata for some weird reason.

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Re: How can I move the TTFS folder to ramdisk? [message #492287 is a reply to message #492286]

Tue, 25 April 2017 14:53

iRANian
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It refuses to use the game folder.

How am I supposed to fix the ingame frametime lag/stutter when the game is loading 34234234 files from the TTFS folder ingame?

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Re: How can I move the TTFS folder to ramdisk? [message #492289 is a reply to message #492287]

Wed, 26 April 2017 09:06

sla.ro(master)
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Using symlink, or whatever is called on Windows. Well.. if you use SSD, no need for ram disk though ;p

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Re: How can I move the TTFS folder to ramdisk? [message #492292 is a reply to message #492286]

Wed, 26 April 2017 09:53

dblaney1
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Paths.ini is what you want to take a look at. If you have an ssd though then its not the ttfs causing the stutter, its something else.

[Updated on: Wed, 26 April 2017 09:53]

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Re: How can I move the TTFS folder to ramdisk? [message #492295 is a reply to message #492286]

Wed, 26 April 2017 10:39

iRANian
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I dont have an ssd

Where can I find paths.ini?

btw i a lot of people experience issues with this, maybe add it to a todo list?

Both rencorner and MPF have hundreds of megabytes of shit they download and TTFS doesnt place them in a mix file...it places them all as loose files

so you get the same issue as when always.dep is missing...the game will try to load the assets when it needs them in-game and will do file reads (as it isn't stored in memory yet). Renegade has the always.dep file which state what files to load in general and for every map a map_name.dep file to state what files to load for that map.

Is it possible to disable writing to _asset_report.txt?

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Re: How can I move the TTFS folder to ramdisk? [message #492298 is a reply to message #492286]

Wed, 26 April 2017 23:43

zunnie
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[paths]
RegBase=AllNoobs
RegClient=ReneCoop
RegFDS=ReneCoopFDS
FileBase=AllNoobs
FileClient=ReneCoop
FileFDS=ReneCoopFDS
UseRenFolder=true

Put in a "paths.ini" and place inside data folder.

example i use for Renegade Coop.

https://multiplayerforums.com/uploads/monthly_2018_03/TCW2_Signature.png.6236a0dbc6e1e53472a18fe8cd15e47b.png

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Re: How can I move the TTFS folder to ramdisk? [message #492302 is a reply to message #492298]

Thu, 27 April 2017 12:42

ehhh
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be nice if this got fixed, I know this stopped me playing, before I got a ssd.

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Re: How can I move the TTFS folder to ramdisk? [message #492303 is a reply to message #492286]

Thu, 27 April 2017 13:24

dblaney1
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If you run the cleanup console command by pressing f8 and typing cleanup it makes a big difference even on SSD computers. You can also find this as a button in the extended options menu. It cleans up all the duplicate packages etc in the ttfs. We should probably make a prompt in the next update to run this command for people with a huge packages.dat and ttfs file stores. If you want to clear your ttfs entirely instead and start fresh you can run the clearttfs console command.

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Re: How can I move the TTFS folder to ramdisk? [message #492308 is a reply to message #492286]

Thu, 27 April 2017 23:14

iRANian
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If you play on rencorner and MPF you download a huge amount of files.

I was working on my own always.dat and something yesterday caused my FPS to triple...my game is really smooth now O_o

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Re: How can I move the TTFS folder to ramdisk? [message #492326 is a reply to message #492286]

Sat, 29 April 2017 09:30

Kholdstare
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When I enable UseRenFolder it appears keys.cfg is ignored regardless of where it's located. Am I doing something wrong?

EDIT: Where the hell is any documentation for these ini files?

[Updated on: Sat, 29 April 2017 19:32]

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Re: How can I move the TTFS folder to ramdisk? [message #492327 is a reply to message #492286]

Sat, 29 April 2017 14:23

iRANian
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Yeah where is the documentation. I had to open bandtest.dll in IDA to find that ini keys lmao

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Re: How can I move the TTFS folder to ramdisk? [message #492331 is a reply to message #492286]

Sat, 29 April 2017 22:18

Gen_Blacky
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I remember seeing it documented on danpauls page. But It couldn't find paths.ini documented when I looked. I know it is somewhere.

http://www.danpaul88.co.uk/ttdocs/pages.html