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BeachBum · 04-17-2008, 01:21 PM

I have played with the whole quickstart thing and here is more information for you.

I tried loading the majors.quick which came with the game and it loaded in a matter of seconds.

I tried creating a historical game and immediately saved as a quickstart. It saved in a matter of seconds.

I then tried a quicksave of a game that I have played/simmed from 1901 to 1962 and this is where it became interesting. The total save time was 25 minutes. The following is a listing of the times it took to save major areas.

message_***.txt files 1 minute there were 1000+ of these
game_box_****.html 6 minutes there were 4300+ of these
first_name.jpg 5 minutes player portrait files for all
players from beginning of
time
log_****.txt 6 minutes there were 4300+ of these
player_****_history.txt 3 minutes
****_team_**.txt 3 minutes

This folder is 475 MB where the majors.quick folder is 67.8 MB

After looking at this, it appears to me that to do a quickstart after simming or playing is not the way to go. It is much faster to and easier to make a backup, rename it so you know what it is, then restore this if you want to start at a specific time.

04-17-2008, 01:21 PM	#12 (permalink)
BeachBum Minors (Double A) Join Date: May 2007 Location: Copalis Beach, WA Posts: 142	I have played with the whole quickstart thing and here is more information for you. I tried loading the majors.quick which came with the game and it loaded in a matter of seconds. I tried creating a historical game and immediately saved as a quickstart. It saved in a matter of seconds. I then tried a quicksave of a game that I have played/simmed from 1901 to 1962 and this is where it became interesting. The total save time was 25 minutes. The following is a listing of the times it took to save major areas. message_*.txt files 1 minute there were 1000+ of these game_box_.html 6 minutes there were 4300+ of these first_name.jpg 5 minutes player portrait files for all players from beginning of time log_.txt 6 minutes there were 4300+ of these player__history.txt 3 minutes _team_.txt 3 minutes This folder is 475 MB where the majors.quick folder is 67.8 MB After looking at this, it appears to me that to do a quickstart after simming or playing is not the way to go. It is much faster to and easier to make a backup, rename it so you know what it is, then restore this if you want to start at a specific time.