What would happen If i were to compress GW.dat file??

Rce3W4

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Jul 2007

26 Jul 2007 at 19:49 - 1
Anyone got an answer for me??? Thanks..

Yanman.be

Yanman.be

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

Belgium

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26 Jul 2007 at 20:00 - 2
It would get smaller!

Gorebrex

Gorebrex

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jan 2006

26 Jul 2007 at 20:48 - 3
It might be a little slow in loading, as it would have to decompress gw.dat before it loaded an area, but depending on your system and connection quality, you may not notice much difference.

Trbayth

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2007

Fellows of Mythgar

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26 Jul 2007 at 23:55 - 4
Since it looks like it's mostly a binary file with very few repeating sequences I doubt it would get much smaller.

Trb--

tijo

tijo

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Join Date: Feb 2007

Montreal

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27 Jul 2007 at 01:40 - 5
Sure it would get smaller, but the real question is: has anet already compressed the file in some format that works well with the client so the file doesn't take too much space. If that's the case i doubt that compressing the file would make it a lot smaller, might also make the game slower since you have to decompress.