Load game - speed

[spaceinvader803]

Great job guys, love playing the game - for relaxation and exercising my braincells

Please have a look at speeding up the Load Game function.

Greetings and wishes for a wonderful spring.

[Pentarctagon]

Can you be more specific about what's being slow?

[spaceinvader803]

Sure, I do a lot of saves during gameplay, so currently there are several thousands GZ-files in my saves-directory.

It seems like the Load Game function reads through all of these before displaying the Load Game list - takes about 10 seconds on my PC.

I occasionally clean up the directory, but I think the algorithm could be improved to load only saves of the current campaign or, if no campaign is currently running, let me choose which campaign to load game from for a start.

Cheers

[Ravana]

In order to know which addon save is from, game would still need to unpack the file and read it.

[Toranks]

If disk space is not an issue, you can save it unzipped selecting that option in advanced preferences

[gnombat]

In order to know which addon save is from, game would still need to unpack the file and read it.

The game could create a separate subdirectory in saves/ for each addon. (Actually it would have to be for each campaign - it would need to work for mainline content too.)

[Yomar]

Hmm, strange, I never had slow load issues.
Now I have an SSD hard disk and everything is faster, but even on my old laptop saves don't give me any problems and they are even all compacted.