how do you reduce the wad size?

come on guys i only hAVe a 14gb hdd. sonn cars.wad will take it all up;. i think mod. ellis thinks it has no effect. dont know about perf. but vertainly loading times are 5x longer then b4. would like to keep all high res. cars , i.e. viper cars but want lesser wad size?

delete all the unneeded low res tectures from wad.

what OS are you running ? there is a lot you can remove from each version to make things smaller on your hard drive..lemme know and i'll let you know

start again with default. delete all low res textures. then delete the old files of each car you install before installing the new version. this is because some cars use different textures to default and default ones are no longer needed.

erm, i never said loading times wudnt be effected, its in game that wont ebcasue everything is fetched udring loaidng and stuffed in the RAM, the wad doenst need to be accessed until you load again.

Loading times also suffer when u install hi-res cars tho,




Racing Is Life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting
Jesus may be able to heal the sick and bring the dead back to life, but he can't do shît for low fps

Delete all LODfiles called car_team_carx_lod_35.gp4. The 35 in the LODs is probably a typo and game doesn't use them.



Post Edited (05-25-03 13:15)

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It's only after we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything.

thanks for all replies. i am using win xp. will try what you guys have suggested and report back for others who want a lesser wad size.

also you can go into your gp 4 folderD:\GP4\MenuData\PC\GP2001\Videos and delete every file except for

BG_flag
BG_Rain - Light
BG_Tyretread
CornerL
CornerR
Straight3
wheel_lo_blur

that'll free up about 200 megs from gp4

then you can go to

C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache

and


C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles note : ServicePackFiles may be named i386

copy them both to desktop then burn to disk for safetys sake
doing that cleared 400 megs from my hard drive
if when you install a new driver and it asks for these file just copy them back to your desktop then delete when finished.
also make sure hibernation is disabled and try to get yourself Norton Ghost 2003.that way you can disable system restore ,freeing up more space,but still have peace of mind with a backup on disk.

don't foget good old msconfig and services to free up more ram so as to reduce loading times

oh and you might want to "pay" for a program along the lines of Windows Washer to clear up all that shite that windows collects

hope that helps in anyway

Chunter

thanks chunter. wow what a difference. you must be a win xp expert!!!!!

whole computer seems to run faster now.

not an expert mate ..just someone who likes to get the best out of his computer...they are after all damn expensive so why not get the most out of it

try www.tweakxp.com

it has great tips and also a great forum

if i can be any more help please ask

the size of the wad will affect loading time but not the game speed directly.
but the wad is usually big because it has large hi-res textures and this will slow down the game.
with all hi-res (1024x1024) textures my itc mod is 92mb and very slow ingame (~230fps). (only 8 cars are in it so far, so i'll probably release with 512 textures, otherwise the wad will be close to 200Mb!)
another wad with no textures (cars are all white) is superfast (~70fps).



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Tony

which textures are the low res textures?

well ive tried it guys. trying the tips i managed to reduce my wad size from 95mb to 93.5 mb not a great result heh?

the original wads have texs named like this:
ferrari_1.tex
ferrari_2.tex
ferrari_3.tex
hi_ferrari_1.tex
hi_ferrari_2.tex
hi_ferrari_3.tex

with some setting(use 32 full??) you can choose which set to use - the hi_ (better quality) or normal.
if you need a smaller wad deletee the ones you dont use.

if you want to keep all the hi res cars then you'll have a big wad.

alot of the new cars come with one lod and these are copied down, taking up alot of room. not much you can do except ask the makers to make the lower lods.
I'd guess that a full 2003 set with all the best hi res cars, then 80-90mb is probably as good as it gets.



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Tony

thanks

i got my cars.wad from 57 meg to 33 just by changing all the 1024x1024
textures to 512x512 and in gp4master doin the downsize textures instead of having 512x512 for each. this also made my game run faster on the slow ass pc of mine... i also resized the .tex files to 512x512.

and that was for only ONE car

bloody ferrari

but korn freak the big question is did it affect quality and how?

i have a amd k6 500 mhz cpu

i dont care about quality

i care about frames!

and No i dont think it did really

looks as sharp as it did befoe, mind you i didnt look to hard i dont like the
ferraris...

Hi,

I have found that the 512x512 textures look fine. The larger textures do really take up so much space.