Has anyone found a good way to optimize CC for heavy modding? i have a lot of mods and even after i went in a remove all the stuff that i normally don't use and tried to condense things into less folders it still takes awhile to start up.

Use a fresh install in a seperate location, CC is like lightning when you have no mods at all.

I have a copy that has all the items that belong to non-base vanilla content commented out, and if it's critical (like some particles) I make sure it's orphaned or otherwise unbuyable.
CC loads in seconds, no joke. On an Intel Atom.

i know thatit runs fine without the mods. I'm trying to see if there is a way to get CC to run faster with mods (condense mods into less folders, combine mods, remove excess items and actors, ect.)

attempt to optimize CC by messing with its engine!!, no just joking.

Doesn't that less lag thread have something about this?

You'd have to tailor mods you download to your personal preference, and that takes (depending on the mods you use/don't use) extensive knowledge in ini and/or Lua coding.
If you just go and move folders around and delete certain sprites/items/scripts without going and individually redirecting any other parts of the mod that referenced those sprites/items/scripts, you could end up messing up your game and it will not load.

Honestly the amount of time you spend waiting for CC to load up each time will never amount to the amount of time it takes to re-tailor a mod for your own specific use.

Really i have like 5/6 of my mods disabled.
I find it quite annoying when my buy list is full.
Just a thought.

Designing mods to build items through copying other items would speed up loading a lot. Like making a basic MOSRotating and copying that every time you needed to make a MOSRotating, plus whatever changes you needed to make to it.

You got it quite wrong duh, he is asking how to speed up the beginning load.
As in, where the .rtes get loaded?
Cortex Command start-up?
He wants it to go faster with the mods he has.

No, Duh got it right.
She's saying that each MO is a CopyOf of a single preexisting MO, thus making it unnecessary to go through 100-500 lines of code for a single simple gun, and so on and so forth.

I do this every now and then, it really does make a difference.

...Ever wait for 2000+ lines to load? ♥♥♥♥ sucks, man.

Wait, he wants the load time at startup to decrease or the buy menu clutter reduced?
The solution I stated above, if applied retroactively (and at great annoyance and work) would fix the first problem, adding "Buyable = 0" to items he doesn't need in mods would fix the other.

Load time, though duh, that sounds horribly tedious.

i kinda want both. i was originally doing what LFOW was saying with going through and commenting out all the stuff i didn't want; but making a item "un-buyable" might be easier for some of the more complex ones.

thanks guys

Which is why it's a lot better to do it from the get-go where it will be easier to design efficiently rather than go back and fix it all.

Coincidentally, this is why mods like UniTec and AAL are so long in loading, they don't use many CopyOfs for items.
I tried to fix it a bit in WizCorp and Melee Masters, but I didn't make as many copies as I possibly could.

I think the difference in speed is due to how much faster the engine can make objects in memory vs how fast the parser can read the .ini files. I could be wrong though.

Was that barebones CC updated for the current build?

Actually where the hell did that thread even go in the first place? I'm going to go find that.

http://forums.datarealms.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16195&p=300298&hilit=barebones+CC#p300298

Ah, there it is.