Feature request - Delete the .mission file

[BrightCandle]

Having recently found the substantial performance difference of the dedicated servers when utilising the binary mission file can I request that alongside the generate binary files option we also have a delete/rename the .mission file as well. This would substantially improve performance on dedicated servers and likely needs to be the default, the difference is 20 seconds load verses 10 minutes and for the clients 20seconds load verses about 15 minutes.

 

For now at least I'll be writing something quick and dirty to just rename any files in there but just want you to be aware my coop performance problem was tracked to this and the fix is known and I think PWCG ought to be the place the fix is executed.

[Utopioneer]

Are you sure this is necessary? When I generate the binary files, I leave the .mission files in the folder as is. When I load the missions for flying, it loads the binary and seems to ignore the .mission files.

[BrightCandle]

Yes unfortunately what seems to happen with the dedicated server is even when you select the msbin file it always seems to load the .mission file if its next to it and pass it to the clients. I can't find a way to make the SDS thing just use the binary file. This seems to be different on the client software, if you select the binary file it uses that one and passes that to the joiners, it is AFAIK a unique problem with the dedicated server.

[DD_FT-]

Confirmed - when a mission ais being hosted via the dServer the .mission file will get downloaded to the clients.

Syn_Vander has put an option in his Easy Mission Generator that deletes the .mission file after the mission has been generated and re-saved.