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[Clams]

Clams

Consolidating a large GM project

Ok so I have my zelda project that I've been working on for years, and the filesize has grown pretty large (about 10 megs). This has caused game production to grind to a crawl. Everytime I load up to test a tiny change it takes about a minute.

What kind of fixes, techniques, changes can I start using to get load times down?
I'm using game maker v6

[Jeod]

Jeod

Re: Consolidating a large GM project

Import it to GM7.

"You should challenge your fates. When all else fails, you can still die fighting." ~Yune
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Zelda GBC+ Engine for Multimedia Fusion 2

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[gm112]

gm112

Re: Consolidating a large GM project

You could result into making all resources external and loading them only when necessary. Not sure how well that would work out with GM as I don't use it :X. I'm only assuming that would work since the issue here is too much resources being loaded upon startup. Is there a way to prevent GM from preloading all the resources?

[hacker013]

hacker013

Re: Consolidating a large GM project

yes, there is, just deselect that option

Ura Zelda Project (A Zelda Game for the Nintendo DS)

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[Mamoruanime]

Mamoruanime

Re: Consolidating a large GM project

This is actually one of the reasons I stopped using GM to begin with-

The easiest way to handle this is to use all external files, and encrypt them or pack them up into an encrypted file or something along those lines. You'll need a decryptor in your game as well to read the files.

[Rukiri]

Rukiri

Re: Consolidating a large GM project

A GM project will get large that's a fact, external resources seem buggy when you have a save/load engine coded.

My only recommendation find something better... torque "2D" Game Builder is the closest thing to Game Maker, and i might add better.