--- In [email protected], Rodney Kinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> > Actually, the really annoying thing is that once it's loaded
> > everything Vassal is great.
>
>
> I'd put that under the "encouraging" heading myself. What's probably
> gobbling up the time is parsing the saved game file and loading the
images.
> Short of re-designing how games are stored in VASSAL (which I've
> occasionally considered), there's nothing to be done about reading the
> savefile. If loading images is taking time, you miiiight get some
benefit
> from setting the Stacking Options to only draw the top counter (it
will use
> colored rectangle for the other pieces if the stack is expanded.)
>
> rk
Well, consider me campaigning for better save-file management! I'm
pretty well convinced that the operations needed to perform on load
are the entire bottleneck. I'll try the Stacking Options and see what
that does to performance, but I'm beting that it's all the info I've
attached to the counters in a bookkeeping-intensive game that causes
the problems, not the graphics (at least on the scale seen).
James
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