Increase FPS and SPEED UP CrossFire!

**Wikay** · 09-26-2011

Peace to you all

I've got an interesting way in which you can improve the FPS and loading speed.
It's not a BIG difference, but every little helps

Firstly, we will change the font. The default CF font is 13mb! We will replace it with a 7kb font which is about 1/14000th of the original font's size!

Go to your CrossFire fonts folder, mine is:

Code:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Z8Games\CrossFire\rez\Fonts

Rename

Code:

default.ttf

to

Code:

default.bak.ttf

Download this font:

Code:

ATTACHMENT #1 - https://www.mpgh.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=64557&stc=1&d=1317051742

Paste it into your fonts folder:

Code:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Z8Games\CrossFire\rez\Fonts

Now start CrossFire and play!

There is another font you can use. It is all capital/upper case:

Code:

ATTACHMENT #2 - https://www.mpgh.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=64558&stc=1&d=1317051750

THE FONT MUST BE NAMED "DEFAULT.TTF" OTHERWISE IT WILL NOT WORK!

Next method is to compress all the sound files that CrossFire uses!
Don't worry, you will NOT lose the quality very much!

BACKUP THE SOUND FOLDER BEFORE YOU FOLLOW THIS TUTORIAL! (C:\Program Files (x86)\Z8Games\CrossFire\rez\Snd2)

By default, all the sounds are about 140mb.
We will compress these sounds and make it a total of 90mb, so CrossFire will have less to load, making it faster.

Download

Code:

ATTACHMENT #3 - https://www.mpgh.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=64559&stc=1&d=1317051826

Install it and use the keygen. [Please buy the software if you will use it in the future].

Now open SWITCH SOUND FILE CONVERTER as ADMIN!
Click on ADD FOLDER, and add this folder:

Code:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Z8Games\CrossFire\rez\Snd2

[IMG]https://clip2ne*****m/clip/m1033/1317051175-clip-30kb.png[/IMG]

Now click on the "format" row and delete the .mp3 files.
[IMG]https://clip2ne*****m/clip/m1033/1317051250-clip-39kb.png[/IMG]

Copy these settings:
[IMG]https://clip2ne*****m/clip/m1033/1317051329-clip-41kb.png[/IMG]

NOW CLICK CONVERT!
ENJOY

Virus scans
(font files can't be malicious, but I'll include the virus scans anyway)

default.zip
https://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanre...2dcf55dda0db25
https://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/...3b7-1317067014

alt.zip
https://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanre...8598deb1eba67e
https://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/...aa8-1317066972

SwitchSoundFileConverterPlus.v4.14.zip - THERE WILL BE FALSE POSITIVES BECAUSE THERE IS A KEYGEN IN THIS FILE.
https://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanre...a404deafdeed33
https://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/...27f-1317066459

**Jigsaw** · 09-26-2011

Provide two scans of each file please.

**iSnipeZz.** · 09-26-2011

Good tutorial. Did you make it ?

**Wikay** · 09-26-2011

Originally Posted by iSnipeZz.

Good tutorial. Did you make it ?

Yes, I did

I will add the scans for each file as soon as possible! <3

EDIT:
virus scans added!

**Jigsaw** · 09-26-2011

Thanks checking right now...

Everything is clean. /approved

**Murat** · 09-26-2011

looks like a good tut ...

gonna try it thx.

**udelz** · 09-26-2011

nice info and tutorial....

**Cataclypse** · 09-26-2011

This was actually already posted.

**|Master of Puppets** · 09-26-2011

gonna try it

**alexpoo** · 09-26-2011

First to give him a thx... geez guys, hit he button, help him out, and nice work

**Arimu** · 09-26-2011

very good tut, although I doubt you made it.

**Wikay** · 09-27-2011

Originally Posted by Cataclypse

This was actually already posted.

Really?
Where? Please post me the link.. because I'd only come up with it last weekend.

Originally Posted by alexpoo

First to give him a thx... geez guys, hit he button, help him out, and nice work

Thank you <3

Originally Posted by Arimu

very good tut, although I doubt you made it.

Of course I did make it.
I wouldn't waste 40minutes of my life writing up a post ¬_¬
People have no trust in others.
If you think I didn't make it, then go ahead and show me who made it. Silly.