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game maker 7; i cant waite
Topic Started: Sep 25 2006, 07:58 PM (1,300 Views)
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is 1 mb realy that much?
im not worried about it at all
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It is on Dial up, LOL!

1.07 MB is GM 6.1's minimum size.

GM 7's could be bigger, like 2 MB.

Oh well.
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here are two quotes from mark talking about the file size thing
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The exe files sizes in 7.0 will be considerably larger (this is required for Vista compatibility).

But I don't understand why people worry. We all have 100GB or more harddisks. Even a memory stick is now 1 GB. And download speeds have been increased considerably over the years. So why does it matter that a game is 3MB in size? It does not change the loading times (actually the new, larger exes will most likely load slightly faster than the old ones).

Also, if you zip the executables, the new larger ones will zip to the same small size.

And to answer the other question, the extension package will not reduce the size as, at least for the time being, it will only be used for new functionality, not for removing old functionality.

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t helps if people read carefully. As I wrote, when compressing the game executable into a zip file, the size will hardly be larger than before! So it does not matter for downloading cause I assume everybody does (or otherwise should) compress their files before putting it on the web.

Also, the larger executables will not use more internal memory.

And remember, only the base file size will increase (from 1MB to something like 2MB) . So a 10 MB file will now become a 11 MB file.

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http://forums.gamemaker.nl/index.php?act=S...dpost&p=1734068
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