Patch 4.3.2 on public test realms now

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1-03-2012 @ 7:42PM

Drakkenfyre said...

Glad to hear this. It will also speed up performance.

Over time, the loading has gotten slower, and slower. Whereas you could load into SW in just a few seconds once, now it's like 30 seconds on a fast system.

I hope this also removes the cache rebuilding. The game will take files which already exist on the hard drive, and copy them into a cache file. One of them is the game's audio. It makes absolutely no sense to take the game's sounds.mpq file, and make copies of all audio, and have the copies in a separate file, and take up more room. Unless there's some behind the scenes poor optimization going on, eating up GB's of space for duplicate, redundant files is annoying. The game already has to decompress the files when it loads anyway. This can't save much time.

Whenever you see the Launcher "optimizing" files, this is one of the things it does. Extracts the files, and places them in one of the cache files.

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