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Originally Posted by KrvKpt. Falke
Its not normal that game from 2005 needs 4gig of ram to load faster. in my opinion it has not much to do with how many mods you are using - its about sh3 engine. i have both games installed (sh3 and sh4) and sh4 loading times are 10xfaster than sh3s. My system isnt new (gf6600gt w/256mb, athlon xp 2600 and 1 GB of memory) - like i said - sh4 is loading much much faster than sh3 (but runs slower). The devs did some engine optimizations and switched from tga to dds format. The same can be done to sh3 but not without developers tools...
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Not just the TGA to DDS switch
SH4 campaigns are also split into areas\years so the game isnt loading 6 years worth of campaigns as in SH3 but 1
For testing I use minimal campaign files and SH3 loads in a flash compared to normal
Plus SH4 has 98 folders in the Sea folder compared to SH3 and GWX 1.03 of over 170
SH4 air folder has 13 aircraft where as SH3 cw GWX 1.03 has 45
All those are loaded on start up
Thats where the faster loading comes into it