I've been pruning in my mods folders, as there are just too many mods that I don't seem to be using. Cockpit repaints and such, and with the size they all accumulate to, it slows down loading quite noticeably.
However since I am also a skin nut, having far far too many skins, I was wondering if the number of skins one has does anything to affect performance or loading speed of Il-2?
Would having less skins make for smoother performance? Or for faster staring up?
Im not sure but i think il2 checks the skins when you want to customize
your plane and open the skin slot.
Try to remove the skins (before make backups) and you will see :wink:
Nope. The game only accesses the skins when you select a skin. You can have millions and it won't affect the loading time.
lol just had a look at my Skins folder because I saw this and at the mo its 4.12Gb :o
I wasn't aiming for a million, but I am at 23 gigs, more or less with 24 000 skins ... maybe I will try for a record after all ...
And you know, even with so many skins, in a mission it seems I can never find the skin that is a perfect fit ... there is always one missing or of the wrong nationality or wrong camo pattern or whatever ... it's one of those things like shoes and handbags I guess ... ha ha
Try adding more ram. It did the trick for me. I am up to 3gb of ram and it runs ok but more would be better.
Jeppers 24,000!
Im not a collecter of all skins, Just what I Like and im only at 4,200 and I could probably dump at least half of them.
Loading skins into the FMB may add to load times im not sure?
