The Mugen Fighters Guild - Faster loading times

greyman214

Faster loading times

#1 December 26, 2009, 12:41:54 pm

I used to have xedart's x-mugen as my screenpack and it works well and loads fast but when I switched to SyN's (I forgot its name) screenpack, the loading times become longer and it uses a hell lot of my physical memory. From the usual 32% it increases up to 70-80%. Am I missing something here? A setting I'm not supposed to have? How can I lower the needed memory and how can I speed up the loading times. I really think that SyN's screenpack is awesome and would like to use it but it just consumes a lot of memory. My friends actually dubbed it the Vista mugen with my x-mugen screenpack as the xp mugen. Can anybody help me here.

kakkoii superhero

Re: Faster loading times

#2 December 26, 2009, 01:41:09 pm

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there are these lines in your mugen.cfg

;-------------------------------------------------------
[Misc]
;Number of extra players to cache in memory.
;Set to a lower number to decrease memory usage, at cost of
;more frequent loading.
PlayerCache = 4

;Set to 1 to allow precaching. Precaching attempts to start loading
;player data as early as possible, to reduce apparent loading times
;between matches. To get the best performance, set PlayerCache to at
;least 1. The optimal number for PlayerCache is 4 when precaching is
;enabled. Precaching is not available in DOS.
Precache = 1

;Set to 1 to enable large-buffer reads of sprite and sound data.
;Set to 0 (off) to decrease memory usage, at cost of slower
;loading.
BufferedRead = 0

;Set to 1 to free system.def data from memory whenever possible.
;This decreases memory usage, in exchange for loading time
;before system screens.
UnloadSystem = 1

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greyman214

Re: Faster loading times

#3 December 26, 2009, 01:59:02 pm

So is it impossible to shorten the loading time while decreasing the memory consumed? Anyways will try this. Thanks, I'll reply again when I'm done.

greyman214

Re: Faster loading times

#4 December 30, 2009, 09:55:19 am

It loads faster now but it crashes quite frequently, is there some plugin or something to avoid this?

Cyanide

Re: Faster loading times

#5 December 30, 2009, 10:23:12 am

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He may have included a rubbish plugin, or defined one, for his screenpack and you're now using that. Of course, winmugen was never particularly good with MP3 files anyway. Ogg is a more stable format and conversion isn't too bad.

90% of the stuff done with winmugen was a bit of a hack anyway. The only thing that was always OK was a midi file.