Game Loading: Skip Logo & Intro movies!

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Does anybody have any other ideas on getting the game to load faster?

The first thing to do is to turn off the game's main Intro Movie by going to:
'Options/Cinematic/Show Opening Cinematic' and unchecking the checkbox.

But the StarDock, IronClad, and Sins Logo movies still play. These are probably playing at the same time the game is loading in the background, and not slowing it up too much on faster computers. But on slower computers it seems it would help speed up the load time to skip these movies.

(Recommended) Turning off the 'ShowIntroMovies' Flag:
Open your 'user.setting' file from this folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\your username\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting

and change the line:
ShowIntroMovies TRUE
to
ShowIntroMovies FALSE

The game will skip the Logo 'Movies', but will instead display a static graphic logo for each of these three logos. This may be a little faster.


(Not Recommended) Renameing the Movie Files so the game skips them:
I have tried renaming the movies in the movies folder so the game will just skip them. I just renamed the StartDockLogo.bik, IronCladLogo.bik, and GameLogo.bik to have an extension of .Bikxxx. Now the game does not see these and skips these movies.

For me, the game skips these movies and just displayes the game's starfield background image while loading. It seems to hang on this screen and the Game Menu does not appear until I click on the screen once or twice. So I do not recommend this option. But if want to try it, test this and see how it works for you. It may be faster, but you may need to click the screen to get the UI to show up. Kind of annoying and again, I don't recommend this.

If somebody figures out a better way, please post here.

Snacko
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
When you first see the logos, left click. This will skip them.

pek
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
:CONGRAT:

this deserves a bump, my movies have been off since beta 4! Lol...
Star Control: Origins
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
It will still take time as the game's textures are loading.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Instead of renaming each .bik file I renamed the folder containing them, bit faster to do.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Instead of renaming each .bik file I renamed the folder containing them, bit faster to do.
Let us know how that works for you.

For me, the Game Menu would not display, until I clicked on the screen at least twice.

Snacko

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
Yes, this is the same for me :NOTSURE:
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
Meh, haven't had a problem with this, there's like two splash screen, and the game is loading the starting menu/textures/whatever while they play...and you can skip them.

If you want a fun, long-ass intro, play Crysis. The intros (re: advertisements) are nearly as long as the game itself. ;)
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
I have just clicked on the option to Disable the intro video in the settings. ;)

I can't remember the exact name but it was one of the lower buttons on the left side. There is only one option on the screen allowing you to disable the video. No need to change .ini files.
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
Wow, you haven't even read the post by Snacko ;p
Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top
the font was just too small. :SURPRISED: ;p
but I noticed with 1.01 that the preview of a custom map sometimes does not seem to work properly. i got an emtpy galaxy but there were planetgroups and i could not zoom with the mousewheel. After exiting with quit game I had a blank screen with a planet and no menus - was fixed after hitting ESC a few times. o.O