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Warning: these methods might cause data loss if used inappropriately. Follow these instructions at your own risk!
Instructions to increase the game's performance and reduce size
Using any or all of these options will allow you to start the game a little bit faster or save some HDD space
(using all of these results in ~420MiB->200MiB shrink as of v1.9):
- If you're concerned about the render speed of the logo wipe-on (it takes some time, esp. on slower boxes), you can either disable logo animation in Wesnoth's advanced options or replace with 0-bye PNGs (files data/core/images/misc/logo.png & images/misc/logo.png),
- To customize the main menu map, rename data/core/images/maps/mainmenu.jpg to some other name (e.g. _mainmenu.jpg) and copy a custom JPG file as mainmenu.jpg instead (so, to archieve performance gain, simply replace the original one with a 0-byte JPG to have no main menu background),
- To disable tip-of-the-day display, replace the file data/hardwired/tips.cfg with
[tip][/tip]
- Additionally, you may want to remove unused translations and l10n resources by hand to conserve disk space, a script below will leave only the default one (US English),
- 'manual' folder contains off-line manual, not used ingame,
- if you don't fancy to use East Asian fonts, remove fonts/wqy-zenhei.ttc (13MiB),
- And lastly, for people who use only sound-effects but no music, you can erase all of the ogg files to save about 100MiB.
Scripts
The easiest way to reduce the size of the installation is to execute one of the scripts designed to do these tasks - you just have to make a new file in Wesnoth main directory with the name given and with content as follows and then execute it.
For Windows XP
- cleanup.bat
@echo off copy nul data\core\images\misc\logo.png copy nul images\misc\logo.png echo [tip][/tip] > data\hardwired\tips.cfg del fonts\wqy-zenhei.ttc rd /s /q data\core\images\help\l10n rd /s /q data\core\images\maps\l10n rd /s /q data\core\images\misc\l10n rd /s /q images\misc\l10n rd /s /q manual rd /s /q translations md translations rd /s /q data\core\music md data\core\music
For older Windows
- cleanup.bat
@echo off copy nul data\core\images\misc\logo.png copy nul images\misc\logo.png echo [tip][/tip] > data\hardwired\tips.cfg del fonts\wqy-zenhei.ttc deltree /y data\core\images\help\l10n deltree /y data\core\images\maps\l10n deltree /y data\core\images\misc\l10n deltree /y images\misc\l10n deltree /y manual deltree /y translations md translations deltree /y data\core\music md data\core\music
For UNIX-based operating systems
- cleanup.sh
#!/bin/sh cp nul data/core/images/misc/logo.png cp nul images/misc/logo.png echo [tip][/tip] > data\hardwired\tips.cfg rm fonts/wqy-zenhei.ttc rm -rf images\misc\l10n rm -rf data\core\images\help\l10n rm -rf data\core\images\maps\l10n rm -rf data\core\images\misc\l10n rm -rf manual rm -rf translations mkdir translations rm -rf data/core/music mkdir data/core/music
This page was last modified on 10 February 2011, at 10:06.