Multiple .dmp's or lots of z levels???

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Nov 10 2002, 5:57 am
I've been searching these forums lately trying to figure out how to link multiple .dmp I finally figure it out and I was wondering about a few things...

1 If you use a single .dmp and have say 25 z levels, are all of the z levels loaded up in the background (using much more system rescources)?
2 If you use multiple .dmp's are all of them loaded up at once, or only the one being used at a certain time (using considerably less system rescources)?
#1 Nov 10 2002, 12:48 pm
There is no difference between multiple .dmps and a single .dmp. I don't know how it's loaded up, but I'm 99% sure it's the same either way.
#2 Nov 10 2002, 1:47 pm
Nick231 wrote:
I've been searching these forums lately trying to figure out how to link multiple .dmp I finally figure it out and I was wondering about a few things...

1 If you use a single .dmp and have say 25 z levels, are all of the z levels loaded up in the background (using much more system rescources)?
2 If you use multiple .dmp's are all of them loaded up at once, or only the one being used at a certain time (using considerably less system rescources)?

They are all loaded on game startup.

To make things more efficient, you'd need to use something like Lummox's new SwapMaps library.