Merging mods to increase Performance!
Freezerburn:
Quote from: knightguy on 2010 April 13, 14:44:36
I know you can merge .package files but can you merge .dbc files?
Correct me if I'm wrong. IMO .package and .dbc are the same, only the file extensions are different. So you can rename merged .package to .dbc
Claeric:
Quote from: zveki on 2010 April 13, 09:18:48
WOW WOW WOW, merging is the best, my game is now so fast that i can have 10 gigs of mods and plus new store items converted and merged in one file. So many thanks for this ::)
Dear god, how can you even have that many? Do you download everything you see?
zveki:
Ah, sorry, my mistake. I have 5.5 gigs of sims 3 packs and 4.5 gigs of packages(merged in 3 gigs). SO that was 10 gigs of stuff i meant :-*
jezzer:
Quote from: Claeric on 2010 April 13, 17:14:14
Dear god, how can you even have that many? Do you download everything you see?
"ZOMG! This Peggy hair has the emo bangs swept to the right!" *click*
Inf:
Quote from: jeromycraig on 2010 April 13, 22:43:59
Quote from: Claeric on 2010 April 13, 17:14:14
Dear god, how can you even have that many? Do you download everything you see?
"ZOMG! This Peggy hair has the emo bangs swept to the right!" *click*
^^^
I'm sorry but I found this to be extremely hilarious!!! :D I'm just as bad....
Anyways...I just went and tried this complete setup by converging all my .package files and compressing them into .dbc files. Honestly on my machine I did see a performance increase. Considering I have a ton of mods *** Approx. 2.31 GBs worth in my packages folder *** I was starting to see some serious lag issues before compressing everything. Compared to my 3:20+ load time before from start to in game I'm now down to by my stopwatch around 2:25+ in game.
This was done by a comparison with each try 4x with & without the dbc files all on fresh reboots of the machine. Either I went with all the .package files in the respected folders and then tried it with just the .dbc files. .dbc was quicker on my machine. Whether or not this method actually works being true or not this is a debate I do not want to get involved in. You guys can debate it all you want. For me it worked.
I'll be sticking with the conversions from now on. Thanx for the Tut Anach.
Oh and Claeric, I wanted to say thanx to you for the Proc Monitor App. That helped me out a lot yesterday. I picked it up from your blog yesterday and followed the Tut for it as well. That really helped me out. Sped things up a bunch after I did what you said. ;)
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