Reducing the SE4 footprint.

dogscoff · #1 May 13th, 2003, 03:13 PM

Heh- abilities.txt, didn't think of that. A quick sewarch showed up 15 copies of it=-)

*dogscoff deletes 14 of them and frees up a valuable 224k

I've also gotten rid of the combat folders in my 2 P&N installations.

Now, let's see what else we have:

23 different systemnames files, totalling something like 1.70 meg. I think I'll lose most of those, keeping the half-meg file from FQM deluxe and Adamant (it appears to be the same file.)

We're getting there. Anyone got any more space-saving suggestions?

dogscoff · #2 May 13th, 2003, 03:46 PM

Hmm, AIC mod - anyone know if I can remove the components, facilities and combat folders and still be OK under the imagemod?

Same question with proportions- I have 2 installs of this (well, one is the proportions+primitives mod) so I could double my saving here

I also just freed up several meg with some brutal rationalisation of the Adamant mod- I had the Taera and Puntherrians duplicated, as well as dozens of designname files!

I think I'll also take the manual out- I don't use it and it's 8 meg! I can always recover it from the game CD.

Suicide Junkie · #3 May 13th, 2003, 03:46 PM

As of the latest gold patch, you only need settings.txt in your data folder, IIRC.

You can probably consolidate your strategies, formations, and ship name files.

Fyron · #4 May 13th, 2003, 06:52 PM

Quote:

23 different systemnames files, totalling something like 1.70 meg. I think I'll lose most of those, keeping the half-meg file from FQM deluxe and Adamant (it appears to be the same file.)

As well it should, for the Adamant mod was built from FQM Deluxe!

You could go buy some 850 MB CDs. Or just use 2 CDs.

Lisif Deoral · #5 May 13th, 2003, 11:48 PM

Can SEIV handle RLE (compressed) windows bitmaps?
Last year I was running short of disk space and tried to compress them, but I can't remember if it worked or not (I decided to buy a new hard disk

Edit: yes, it can handle them. Anyway, they're limited to a palette of 256 colors, so you'll need to reduce color depth (but IMHO the game won't lose anything).

[ May 13, 2003, 23:04: Message edited by: Lisif Deoral ]

Desdinova · #6 May 13th, 2003, 11:57 PM

AIC mod uses its own graphics. so no you cannot delete them.
Edit> i have posted in AIC post asking JLS if he would mind having his pictures added to the others.

[ May 13, 2003, 23:05: Message edited by: DESDINOVA ]

Slick · #7 May 14th, 2003, 12:04 AM

*dances around and jumps on the bandwagon*

You can delete History.txt and save 115Kb.

Slick.