Scubaman3D Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 What is their purpose?? Why is it that changes made to the xml files only take effect after the bin files are removed?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemon Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 What is their purpose?? Why is it that changes made to the xml files only take effect after the bin files are removed?? Actually they do update for me on their own. Perhaps a setting i put on. I am almost 100% sure that the bin files are for optimization purposes. Parsing 100s of XML files every time you load the game and every time you load a map would probably increase load times about ten times, so instead they cache the in memory view of the XML file into a bin file which is much faster to load. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d0youlikecheese Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 I believe your correct they seem to be working like a swap file in Linux.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scubaman3D Posted May 9, 2006 Author Share Posted May 9, 2006 What is their purpose?? Why is it that changes made to the xml files only take effect after the bin files are removed?? Actually they do update for me on their own. Perhaps a setting i put on. I am almost 100% sure that the bin files are for optimization purposes. Parsing 100s of XML files every time you load the game and every time you load a map would probably increase load times about ten times, so instead they cache the in memory view of the XML file into a bin file which is much faster to load. so in order to keep the normal load times, do we need to make new bin files? It seems mine do not update automatically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemon Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 last line in context.xml there is settings for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scubaman3D Posted May 9, 2006 Author Share Posted May 9, 2006 last line in context.xml there is settings for it. ah, ok, thanks...previously I set them all to "true" but then back to "false" cause they didn't seem to affect anything. Makes sense now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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