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• Post #1740038

  That’s not what I’m doing, I’m not trying to archive the games. Did you not read the last part of my post? I literally said that I’m using it to run games from these older devices, not archive them. I use an external hard drive for archiving them if I need to keep them long term. Also, believe it or not, but a lot of the games I have are not already compressed that well. I have games that are normally over 4GB that I’m now able to run from a 1GB flash drive because I can use BTRFS’s transparen...

• Does Linux have an equivalent to "compress to save space" from Windows? I don't need to save space, I want it for a different purpose.

  As I mentioned in the title, I’m not looking to save space, I want to test something. In Windows, you could use this option on a folder and still access the contents and run executables while keeping the folder and it’s contents compressed. The benefit to doing this, outside of saving space, is that files could potentially be accessed faster on slower storage devices. As I’ve been trying to get the most out of some old storage devices I have, I think that something like this would be a great o...

• Post #1051667

  I’ve always been curious about the effects on minors as well, especially with a country like Japan where sex is much more widely accepted and pornography is just out on display in some stores. From what I’ve heard, Japan has always had the mentality that porn would be either unappealing to minors or, specifically for games, would be to difficult for them to actually play because they’d have trouble reading the text. I know that Japan has done studies on other porn related topics, so maybe they h...

• Post #489006

  After trying vmtouch, it only seems to be partially helping. I’m not sure if I’m just using it incorrectly or not but if I remove the files from RAM and then use vmtouch to add them back in, the hitching issues are still partially there. To fully explain what my issue is, I currently using the Linux version of the Cyber Lancer demo from Itchio as it’s small enough to fit onto my 128 MB SD card, which is very slow. I can easily run the game from other storage devices that have much higher read...

• Post #488821

  That wont be necessary, after doing more “extreme” tests with preload, it seems like I was wrong about preload. I used sudo sysctl vm.drop_caches=1 to make sure that none of the game’s files were loaded in RAM before using preload like I did yesterday, but the game still has hitching issues. This means that the game’s files were probably still loaded in RAM when I was testing it yesterday. For context, what I’m trying to do is find a way to run smaller games more smoothly from some very old st...

• Post #458793

  If you’re not aware of what preload is, it’s a command line application that allows you to add files to ram, so they can be accessed faster by the applications that need them. It seems to work well for what I’m using it for, which is to run games from slower storage devices, but there doesn’t seem to be any documentation for a proper way to remove the files once they’ve been added to ram. What I’ve been doing is to just use htop to terminate the preload command, but I feel like this is not int...