Hi,

For those that are not aware, on reddit there is a topic that discusses what you can do to improve your loadtimes: https://www.reddit.com/r/Diablo/comments/qey05y/d2r_single_player_tips_to_improve_your_load_times/

What i`d like to discuss here is how you guys feel about one of the tips there: "Advanced Tip #2 - Extract game files and launch with -direct and -txt in the shortcut options"

Basically you extract the files, copy them in the proper spot and your loadtimes increase drastically. It is basically what you would setup to run mods, except we dont run mods with it.

I ran a testsetup and it seems to almost cut my loads in half:

Testsetup:

• Start in act4
• Take Durance WP
• Kill mephisto
• Take Portal to Act4
• Leave game, repeat

I did 10 Runs, started timer in Lobby and stopped when i was back in Lobby: Regular D2R: 5:55 Total Time, 3:17 IGT -> Loadtime: 2:38 D2R -direct -txt: 4:32 Total Time, 3:09 IGT -> Loadtime 1:23

As you can see, this is a huge improvement on loadtimes. How do you guys see it? Allowed, not allowed?

I recently started to look more into tiles and their rules to speed up my runs. Yesterday, I spent some time in the City and found out some stuff about it. Basically the map is always a 6x8 tileslot grid and the entrances are always at the same points of the grid. By knowing your position on the grid, you should be able to explore the map more efficiently.

Since I don`t know how/if I can add pictures in here, I made a little googledoc to show you my findings: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17sjHBF_NaRf4L9Wz9OI1IuwFiIXlZIVFQtwDN0jN3Jc/edit?usp=sharing