Compressed or Uncompressed?

Spoonroom · Post by **Spoonroom** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:13 am

If I use compression on the games, will it have any effect on the performance? I've read in one of the threads that it's better to leave the games uncompressed, but is there actually a big difference?

I need all the space I can get...

joostp · Post by **joostp** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:17 pm

It depends on the game, the only problematic one I can think of from the top of my head is CoMI, for most other games it shouldn't be a problem.

Just try it and find out.

Spoonroom · Post by **Spoonroom** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:32 pm

Thanks, will do.

Tieske · Post by **Tieske** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:04 pm

I found out when playing Zak McKraken FM-town version with mp3-music that it stutters when it has to load from memorystick.
Then I played Loom FM-towns version with OGG-music and it ran smoothly.
Then I converted the Zak McKraken MP3 to OGG and no stutter whatsoever.
My point is: games run better with ogg then with mp3. (in my case)

Vinterstum · Post by **Vinterstum** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 8:56 am

Tieske wrote:I found out when playing Zak McKraken FM-town version with mp3-music that it stutters when it has to load from memorystick.
Then I played Loom FM-towns version with OGG-music and it ran smoothly.
Then I converted the Zak McKraken MP3 to OGG and no stutter whatsoever.
My point is: games run better with ogg then with mp3. (in my case)

That's odd actually, Ogg usually eats up more CPU power than MP3.

Spoonroom · Post by **Spoonroom** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:05 pm

I tried Sam 'n Max and it seems to play fine, will test more thoroughly tonight at home.