Precache GL Textures Question

[Enjay]

I've been wondering: when precaching textures, what does GZDoom do? Does it do something like decompress textures to RAM, or are they written in a "quick access format" to the HD (and if so, where?) or what is going on? Thanks.

[Graf Zahl]

Precaching means that the hardware texture objects are created when the level starts, not when they are first needed to reduce texture upload time during gameplay.

[Enjay]

Thanks for the answer and that certainly makes sense and ties in with what I've seen when using the feature.

Part of what prompted the question was that I'd seen a folder called "zdoom" in my AppData/Local folder. Inside that there were sub folders which had the names of some of the mods that I have run. Given that it seems this was nothing to do with texture caching, any idea what that folder is about?

[Blue Shadow]

GL nodes caching, perhaps.

[Enjay]

Ah, that'll be it. Thanks.