Hi all!
I just did a full reinstall, because i wanted a clean start with TM176 and RSRDC 221 (which I understand is compatible with TM176:hmm: ).
I uninstalled SH4 and the savegames (there went 100 + hours of my precious gaming time
). I then let WinXP do an analysis of the harddrive (option before defragmentation). It wasn't fragmented at all, a nice thick blue bar where my SH3 and Wings over Vietnam reside (I have a separate partition for all my sim games). I chose not to defrag before the new installation.
Anyway, after the install from the DVD, I rebooted the PC, and did a new analysis.
The harddrive was completely fragmented!!! the installer had writen the SH4 files all over my 'SIM' drive!! I then applied patch 1.4 and the mods I use through JSGME, and did a defrag after that (took only 10 minutes). Now the analysis result seems a lot cleaner.
So, quick tip: check your drive for fragmention after installing SH4 plus any mods you install, then do a defrag, this will improve a lot of things IMHO, particularly load times.
Greetz,
@Lantis