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Originally Posted by bigboywooly
IMHO the only reason SH4 generates faster loading times with basically the SH3 engine is using dds over TGA and splitting the campaign files into areas and years
ie not loading everything campaign at once
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Yes, appears the devs took on board some of SH3's archilles heals. Allowing nation specific skins without the need to duplicate models was an improvement. There were a few other model improvements which result in more optimised file "sharing". From one of the devs...
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...00&postcount=3 (as an aside I must admit to a bit of perplexion re the reference to GWX, when GWX is built on SH3's flaky approach to begin with. Perhaps it was easier to swallow "bye bye long loading times of GWX" rather than "bye bye long loading times caused by inefficient design of SH3"?).
Oddly though I've noticed some guys comment on 15 MINUTE save game load times...
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=580112 and
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=121204 !
