D3 RoE - extracting pk4's in order to improve FPS

[CrAcKo]

I got a amd xp 2500+, 512 mb ram, with a 9600 xt radeon.... and even though it eats lots of space on your HD, extracting the pk4 helps for me to gain more FPS... Loading time takes longer, but it doesnt matter as long as there won't be no lag anymore... Because it is compressed, loading time goes faster... with the exception it keeps loading when the game has finished loading. Low end system users may want to try this themselves.

Example, after a door opens, my HD starts loading like mad, just to load what was actually behind that door (a monster...). With the files uncompressed, I wait longer to load, to gain alot more FPS.

I'm not experiencing any illusions, I'm looking at facts.

[Joe Forster/STA]

@CrAcKo: Okay, you turned solution #3 from my list into solution #1. Now, if you have some time for testing around, try this... For each original .PK4 file, uncompress it into an empty directory and then recompress it, with Info-ZIP (http://www.info-zip.org ), recursively, without compression (!) into a ZIP archive and overwrite the .PK4 file with the ZIP archive. (Make sure to backup your original game files, of course. ) The proper command line for this is zip -0r whatever.pk4 *.*. This is solution #2. How much does game play change with this? I'm really interested in your results. Happy gaming anyway!

[DABhand]

Defrag your hard disk :P

[CrAcKo]

I guess I can't find my answer here, everyone seems to only focus on performance with highend systems. Thanks anyway

[DABhand]

DEFRAG YOUR HD :P

Files may be fragmented and thats why your getting slow speeds on loading and while playing.

[CrAcKo]

Originally Posted by DABhand

DEFRAG YOUR HD :P

Files may be fragmented and thats why your getting slow speeds on loading and while playing.

I read your first message, it's pointless. I play with the PK4's extracted and almost no lag. Haven't defragged my hd's for a while, wonder what I get, all red?

[DABhand]

Well put it this way, the more you have been putting on then taking off, eventually sectors will be very fragmented.. So when you installed D3 RoE it may have to have been installed into those fragmented areas. Therefor the large pk4 files may have bits of its file here and there all over the HD, so it takes a bit for the reading head to go from sector to sector.