| 10-12-2003, 11:59 PM | #1 |
Hi, I finally finished my Tower Defense Map, and many people who play it say that they like it. I posted a link here in case you wanna give it a try. But one really annoying part of it is that the loading time is very long. That pre-game loading screen stays there for over 5 minutes sometimes (It loads for me in about 20 seconds, but most of the ppl on bnet got weaker PCs apparently). So I was wondering how I could fix that. Thanks. |
| 10-13-2003, 01:18 AM | #2 |
The following things take up alot of load time: Modified UI Custom Music Lots of 'On Map Initialization' triggers. Large file size Large+ map size Lots of units preplaced |
| 10-13-2003, 10:19 AM | #3 |
any idea on how much loading time is added by modifying the UI on an average PC???? (1ghz, 256 ram, geforce 3 32meg ram) |
| 10-13-2003, 10:36 AM | #4 |
What is UI? is it custom units? |
| 10-13-2003, 10:44 AM | #5 |
I would suggest using HeavyLocker which compress the map in size. Results vary from map to map. Also too many doodads will cause long loads as well as causing lag later in gme. UI is the User Interface. I haven't seen many multiplayer maps that use a modified UI, but many single player ones do. |