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If you unzip terrain zips, will CFS3 run smoother? (Read 1221 times)
Feb 10th, 2009 at 12:32pm

IndioBlack   Offline
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I notice that the terrain folders for CFS3 are full of zipped files. Does CFS3 actually unzip these whilst you're flying? If so, that surely would make the game run slower than if the files were already unzipped.
So, is it a good idea to unzip those files, since everyone has massive hard-drives these days? Or does it work differently to how I'm thinking?
 
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Reply #1 - Feb 12th, 2009 at 1:46pm

Mathias   Offline
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No, it won't do anything good at all.
CFS3 reads zip files at startup and creates the binary zx files from them which are faster to read than the unzipped stuff.
 

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