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Save Game Question

April 15, 2007 12:44:02 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums
Just a quick question please tell me that save games have LOTS of optimization to go 120mb for 1 save game seem rather excesive.
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Reply #1 April 15, 2007 10:17:01 AM
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Of course it does. File optimization is very low on the priority list for such endeavors. It is one of the last things worked for logical reasons.
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Reply #2 April 16, 2007 1:16:21 PM
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they're 120mb? ahh, that explain where my HD space went...
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Reply #3 April 16, 2007 1:52:58 PM
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My saves average about 60MBs. But then I dont build large fleets. I suspect they will refine the code to more of a ZIP or RAR compression soon.
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Reply #4 April 16, 2007 3:18:54 PM
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Yea, they compress very nicely in zip files so I'm sure they'll be able to squeeze them quite a bit before the final release.
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Reply #5 April 17, 2007 2:04:15 PM
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Easy way to do something about it, let windows do a compression on the directory. I know I did that with my Supreme Commander saved game dir and it was cut in half. In the case of this it should compress much more, if a 90meg save can be cut to 3meg in a rar file it should at least but cut to 1/9th of its size just doing a folder compression.
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Reply #6 May 5, 2009 11:03:29 PM
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1.16 and still waiting... Though 7zip seems to do the job very well and is LGPL'd... *hint hint*

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