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[Iran]

This patch disables loading and displaying the loading screen, which substantially speeds up game start up time for me. (2 seconds with no-CD, 5 seconds with CD)

 

This needs to be NOP'd:

 

.text:0052C5F3                 call    Loading_Screen_And_Stuff

 

With a hex editor find at offset 0x12C5F3 "E8 A8 4C 00 00" and change it to "90 90 90 90 90".

Edited by Iran, 05 December 2013 - 06:46 PM.

[FReQuEnZy]

Is there one for ra2? 

[Iran]

My RA2 no longer works and I'm too lazy to fix it. Try NOP'ing this call:

 

.text:00511808                 call    sub_516560

 

With a hex editor find offset 0x111808 and change "E8 53 4D 00 00" to "90 90 90 90 90".

[FReQuEnZy]

No one tends to use lazy work. I wonder if money would motivate you?

 

The above works fine for me.

Edited by FReQuEnZy, 05 December 2013 - 08:15 PM.

[ImNewButOld]

Who cares about 3 seconds faster startup? Stripping the game more (Olaf even removed music) makes the feeling less intense. I like that wallpaper I think everybody loves it

[ZiGZaG]

Why would you remove the loading screen on YR? Considering it shows you the map and spot you start on? Sounds more detrimental than efficient to me.

[ImNewButOld]

He means when you startup YR. Not a match

[ZiGZaG]

oh, my bad no thanks though! i like seeing the mutator in action!

[Iran]

I'm working on making the game load you into an (online) match when it gets loaded externally with a special command line argument. It helps not seeing the startup loading screen for 12 secs. 

Edited by Iran, 05 December 2013 - 09:21 PM.

[ImNewButOld]

Gameranger?

[Iran]

CnCNet 5

[ImNewButOld]

Ok

 

Can you make Ra2/YR Win8 compatible for money? Im sure Olaf is willing to pay for it  

[BornL33T]

The Yuri/RA2 installation that i'm using with GameRanger switches automatically the loading sequence (EA logo), you're not bringing something new mate

[FReQuEnZy]

I click the ra2 icon and I'm instantly in the main menu, GR is slower..  

Also he's already working on win8 stuff for cncnet.

[Iran]

Ok

 

Can you make Ra2/YR Win8 compatible for money? Im sure Olaf is willing to pay for it

Someone else is working on making win 8 compatible with TS, might also work for RA2. Not sure if he's able to get it working properly but he's spending quite a bit of time on it.

 

YR takes two seconds to load for me with this patch, if I run windowed I can notice it. Full screen Windows switches you to full screen mode and during that time it's loaded, so it looks like the game instantly loads on start up in full screen mode.

Edited by Iran, 06 December 2013 - 08:58 AM.

[Nuc1eoN]

This patch disables loading and displaying the loading screen, which substantially speeds up game start up time for me. (2 seconds with no-CD, 5 seconds with CD)

 

This needs to be NOP'd:

 

.text:0052C5F3                 call    Loading_Screen_And_Stuff

 

With a hex editor find at offset 0x12C5F3 "E8 A8 4C 00 00" and change it to "90 90 90 90 90".

 

Thanks! It's also possible to use Safedisk 2 remover to get rid of it: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Security-Related/Safedisc-2-Cleaner.shtml

That's what I have always used.

[fir3w0rx]

Can you show us how to NOP the engineer?

[FReQuEnZy]

Just skills, awareness and practice.