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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 ~380MiB->150MiB shrink as of v1.7.6):

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 remove/rename the files used for it (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 delete the original one to have no main menu background),
To disable tip-of-the-day display, simply rename or remove the file data/hardwired/tips.cfg,
Additionally, you may want to remove unused translations 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 Chinese 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

Here is a couple of simple script files, for Windows and UNIX-based operating systems (such as Linux), designed to do these tasks. Make new file with the name given and with content as follows and then run it from Wesnoth main directory.

For Windows XP

cleanup.bat

@echo off
del data\core\images\misc\logo.png
del images\misc\logo.png
del data\core\images\maps\mainmenu.jpg
del data\hardwired\tips.cfg
del fonts\wqy-zenhei.ttc
rd /s /q translations
md translations
rd /s /q data\core\music
md data\core\music

For older Windows

cleanup.bat

@echo off
del data\core\images\misc\logo.png
del images\misc\logo.png
del data\core\images\maps\mainmenu.jpg
del data\hardwired\tips.cfg
del fonts\wqy-zenhei.ttc
deltree /y translations
md translations
deltree /y data\core\music
md data\core\music

For UNIX-based operating systems

cleanup.sh

#!/bin/sh
rm data/core/images/misc/logo.png
rm images/misc/logo.png
rm data/core/images/maps/mainmenu.jpg
rm data/hardwired/tips.cfg
rm fonts/wqy-zenhei.ttc
rm -rf translations
mkdir translations
rm -rf data/core/music
mkdir data/core/music

This page was last modified on 30 October 2009, at 19:26.