Slow cold start

[NoQ]

Rather a success story.

All these years i've been suffering from a slow cold start: the game took a lot of time to start for the first time, with a lot of hard drive work, this all was during the final phase of game start before the actual game, so when it was a multiplayer game many players didn't have enough patience to wait for me and left (about a minute or so).

Now i finally found a workaround: after compiling the game from source, remove data/base and data/mp folders! base.wz and mp.wz load instantly, but when unpacked they cause a lot of file system work due to reading many small files.

Applicable to 2.3 and 3.1, and since around 3.1_rc2 this also causes slowdown before the main menu appears.

[Per]

Do you remove the built directories with the base.wz and mp.wz files, or the source data directories with all the small files?

[NoQ]

Source ones. base/data/ and base/mp/