ClaytoniousRex Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 EDIT: As of the 1.2.2 release, there is a new version of the download mentioned below. The URL to this new download will be posted here shortly. You need this new version, or some images in the game will appear upside down. Alternatively, you can delete your .dds files if you want to wait until later to get the updated download. There is a new optional feature you can use to make scenario loading faster. In order to use this new feature, you must download and install the DDS Texture Pack: 1. Download the DDS Texture Pack. URL is in the post below. 2. Unzip all of the files to your DropTeam installation's "data" folder. In Windows, this is usually C:\Program Files\Battlefront\DropTeam\data. In Linux, it is usually ~/DropTeam/data. In Mac OS X, you can open Finder and go to your Applications folder. Double click on the DropTeam folder. Right click (or click the gear thingy for you maniacs still using a single-button mouse) on the DropTeam application icon and select "Show Package Contents". Double click on the "Contents" folder, then on the "Resources" folder, and finally on the "data" folder. Drag the contents of the zip file into that "data" folder. Once you have placed the DDS Texture Pack into your data folder, you are finished. The next time you run DropTeam scenarios should load faster than they did before (especially when Texture Cache is turned on). The amount of gain you see is highly dependent on your video hardware but generally lower-end systems see more gain than higher-end systems do. If adding the DDS Texture Pack to your DropTeam install causes any problems, then you can simply delete all .dds files from your data folder to remove this optional feature. If your video driver has resonable OpenGL support then you won't have any problems, but some of the wonky implementations of OpenGL might choke. [ February 03, 2007, 09:03 PM: Message edited by: ClaytoniousRex ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaytoniousRex Posted October 29, 2006 Author Share Posted October 29, 2006 Download the DDS Texture Pack: A quick and dirty, but FAST, mirror Only if you really need to, direct from us. Please use the mirror instead if you can. Both of these are the new, updated texture pack. [ February 03, 2007, 11:04 PM: Message edited by: ClaytoniousRex ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertram Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 This is 245 MB, be warned (though it downloaded at 650 KB, which was nice) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poesel Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 And 578MB unzipped. Tested on Linux and Mac and really does speedup loading! Will the dds files be updated as normal? And how do you make those files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilibird Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 I'm with Poesel. HUGE improvement in loading times on Mac OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShoHashi Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 Will the dds files be updated as normal? And how do you make those files?As poesel71 asks, will this file have to be downloaded all over again with each new version of Drop Team? Or will there be patches for it? -Sho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junglist Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 Much faster! Thanks Clay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Snively Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 Wow. This makes a difference, on my machine, of a factor of about 4-5X, turning excruciating loads into perfectly reasonable ones. Couple this with the overall performance improvements in 1.2.1, and you can bet that I'll be spending a lot more time in DropTeam. Thanks a million, Clay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toby Haynes Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 You've made my day too. When testing new scenarios, I might load and reload and reload ... Now I can actually put the changes together more quickly, which means ... MORE SCENARIOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theIRONGIANT Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 When am I going to find time to smoke cigarettes? Drop Team's reduced load time helped me quit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yllamana Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Wow! With this thing there aren't really any complaints that can be made about the load time anymore. It's completely fine now! (OS X too) Great job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilibird Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Just giving this a bump back up so that it can be found to go with the 1.2.2 update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poesel Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Just a question: since there are no new vehicles/buildings why do we need a new dds pack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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