[Maps] PR v0.9 Map Loading Backgrounds

[Feriluce]

Originally Posted by Snazz

Elaborate.

Fools road is russians vs. chechens.

[[R-DEV]DankE_SPB]

Originally Posted by Feriluce

Fools road is russians vs. chechens.

it doesn't mean it will stay in this state, brits might be back

[Maxfragg]

i mean okay, a single file should not be bigger, if you use FAT32, but the installer is already split in 2 parts, and ofcause, the game could not use more than 2gb ram before bf2 1.5 but this patch chanced that

@foolsroad Rhino said somewhere, that he would like to see it changed back

[Draakon]

Originally Posted by DankE_SPB

technical limitation, was mentioned in one of discussions

Can someone elaborate more about it?

[TheLean]

Originally Posted by Maxfragg

@foolsroad Rhino said somewhere, that he would like to see it changed back

Doubt it, if they have a very realistic scenario Russians vs Chechens currently, it seems out of touch with the PR spirit to go for the extremely unrealistic scenario of Brits vs Chechens.






I´m also interested why there is a filezise limit of 2GB. Is it another one of the downfalls of the BF2 engine, or is Windows the culprit?

[Snazz]

Originally Posted by Feriluce

Fools road is russians vs. chechens.

In 0.87 yes, in 0.9 we don't know yet.

IIRC IronTaxi and Nickbond are advocates of GB vs militia maps and they're the creators of Fools Road, Dragonfly and Ochamachira.

So unless someone higher up refused, you can expect it to happen.

Beirut and Silent Eagle are apparently Russian maps and presumably at least Kozelsk will stay that way as well. No idea about Iron Ridge.

Originally Posted by TheLean

Doubt it, if they have a very realistic scenario Russians vs Chechens currently, it seems out of touch with the PR spirit to go for the extremely unrealistic scenario of Brits vs Chechens.

They might try to distinguish between Chechens and generic ~Georgian militia, but the war scenario in PR already is not as realistic as you imply.

[Mad-Mike]

Looking hot!

[[R-DEV]AncientMan]

Pretty much all popular installer programs have a 2GB limit on a single file. The installer software we use, Inno Setup, does support more than 2GB sure, however, it requires you to split it up into multiple files (ie, setup.exe, part1.bin, part2.bin, part3.bin), which each file being limited to 2GB. I'm assuming this is because FAT doesn't like files more than 2GB, or, it's a 32bit limitation. One of them anyway I'm sure. But yeah, for web releases, this is bad. If we released on DVD, this would be fine. So the way we do it now is fine, just need to work a little on people understanding exactly what they need .

Anywho, this stuff isn't to do with pretty pictures . Onto the pretty pictures

[Draakon]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]AncientMan

Pretty much all popular installer programs have a 2GB limit on a single file. The installer software we use, Inno Setup, does support more than 2GB sure, however, it requires you to split it up into multiple files (ie, setup.exe, part1.bin, part2.bin, part3.bin), which each file being limited to 2GB. I'm assuming this is because FAT doesn't like files more than 2GB, or, it's a 32bit limitation. One of them anyway I'm sure. But yeah, for web releases, this is bad. If we released on DVD, this would be fine. So the way we do it now is fine, just need to work a little on people understanding exactly what they need .

Anywho, this stuff isn't to do with pretty pictures . Onto the pretty pictures

I think the community does not care about the size. At least i don't care. Hell, even if the installer is 10GB, i would still download, no matter of what.

[Arnoldio]

FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUU D:

I want those maps, i can imagine how real and epic the game will play...