Reducing the SE4 footprint.

dogscoff · #1 May 14th, 2003, 01:45 AM

Doesn't sound too confusing to me.

Suicide Junkie · #2 May 14th, 2003, 01:56 AM

You can also delete all your savegames and autosaves. I imagine those would take a fair chunk of space in total, and you would be better off using a floppy disk for one or two.

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P&N: not sure why I included the combat folder...

Any race shipsets which have duplicated images can be removed, although you will need to keep the modified AI files.

As for datafiles, the only major one that can be removed is abilities.txt
The various lost-of-names files could be removed too.

The AI folder had to be run through the AI patcher, so you need to keep at least the AI_general and AI_designcreation files.

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How about:
-> DNM_lite (requires imagemod)
-> DNM + Imagemod

[ May 13, 2003, 12:58: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

dogscoff · #3 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 · #4 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 · #5 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 · #6 May 13th, 2003, 06:52 PM

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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 · #7 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 ]