Anno 1404 Load Remover Guide

#General

A load remover is a tool that pauses your timer whenever the game is in a predefined loading state. This is a very handy tool to provide a more level playing field especially for PC users, as there are wildly different machines in use and their performance varies significantly between runners. Those with perhaps older PCs would suffer from an inherent disadvantage compared to users of newer machines as their loading times would be much higher - something they have no influence over, and something that should not play a role in a speedrun.

**Note that this load remover should work with the original game as well as the history edition.**

# Finding the Version

As my programming skills do not exceed a bare minimum the current load remover can **not** auto-detect the version number of your game; thus you'll have to read it out yourself:
https://i.imgur.com/iSr08s1.png
Based on whether you have the original game or the remaster you'll find one of the following version numbers:

## Original game:

* v1.00.1762: Open [this page](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tocaloni1/Anno1404-load-remover/master/anno1404_v1_00_1762.asl) and save the file (either via Ctrl+S or right-click > Save page as). Then go to the section "Enabling the Load Remover // Older Versions" of this guide
* v1.01.2037: Open [this page](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tocaloni1/Anno1404-load-remover/master/anno1404_v1_01_2037.asl) and save the file (either via Ctrl+S or right-click > Save page as). Then go to the section "Enabling the Load Remover // Older Versions" of this guide
* v1.02.2619: Open [this page](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tocaloni1/Anno1404-load-remover/master/anno1404_v1_02_2619.asl) and save the file (either via Ctrl+S or right-click > Save page as). Then go to the section "Enabling the Load Remover // Older Versions" of this guide
* v1.03.3650: Go to the section "Enabling the Load Remover // Latest Versions" of this guide

##History Edition:

* v3.00.4250/1.4513.940870: Open [this page](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tocaloni1/Anno1404-load-remover/master/anno1404_v3_00_4250_1_4513_940870.asl) and save the file (either via Ctrl+S or right-click > Save page as). Then go to the section "Enabling the Load Remover // Older Versions" of this guide
* v3.00.4250/1.4645.942142: Open [this page](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tocaloni1/Anno1404-load-remover/master/anno1404_v3_00_4250_1_4645_942142.asl) and save the file (either via Ctrl+S or right-click > Save page as). Then go to the section "Enabling the Load Remover // Older Versions" of this guide
* v3.00.4250/1.4951.945954: Open [this page](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tocaloni1/Anno1404-load-remover/master/anno1404_v3_00_4250_1_4951_945954.asl) and save the file (either via Ctrl+S or right-click > Save page as). Then go to the section "Enabling the Load Remover // Older Versions" of this guide
* v3.00.4250/1.5230.951665: Go to the section "Enabling the Load Remover // Latest Versions" of this guide

# Enabling the Load Remover

Depending on the version number of your game (cf. section *"Finding the Version"*) you have to either add the load remover to the Livesplit layout manually or everything happens automatically.

## Older Versions

For now you'll have to add the load remover for older versions of the game manually. Proceed as follows: open livesplit, right-click on it and click "Edit Layout". In the layout editor which just opened up click on the big + (Add) > "Control" > "Scriptable Auto Splitter":
https://i.imgur.com/6XBa3sx.png

Double-click on the newly added line "Scriptable Auto Splitter" and browse for the .asl file you downloaded in the previous section (should include the version number of your game in the file name):
https://i.imgur.com/7LvW302.png

And that's it! The load remover will start to work automatically. The time without loads is referred to as "Game Time" by LiveSplit and is not the timing method displayed by default. To change to this and see if the load remover is working correctly, again right-click on the main LiveSplit window and select "Compare Against" -> "Game Time". 

*Final note:* If you selected the game "Anno 1404" in your splits make sure you deactivate the *automatic* load remover (in the "Edit Splits" menu):
https://i.imgur.com/Jr62Uz1.png

## Latest Version

Open LiveSplit, right-click its window and select "Edit Splits..." from there, which will bring up the Splits Editor window. In the "Game Name" entry field, type "Anno 1404" and select the game from the search results. This should automatically lead to the program finding the associated and latest version of the load remover and give you the option to enable them underneath the "Start timer at" and "Attempts" fields. Click the "Activate" button:

https://i.imgur.com/fybFml0.png

The load remover will start to work automatically. The time without loads is referred to as "Game Time" by LiveSplit and is not the timing method displayed by default. To change to this and see if the load remover is working correctly, again right-click on the main LiveSplit window and select "Compare Against" -> "Game Time". 

#Acknowledgments

I'm thankful to @Cadarev whose [guide](https://www.speedrun.com/tru/guide/tjjdy) was the initial template to what you just read.

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