Turbine 2.0 for BattleTech 1.3.0

Turbine is a BattleTech mod that lighten and speed up the game's resource loading.

Requites BTML and ModTek. Install like any ModTek mods - extract at the mods folder which would create a subfolder for the mod.

Old Turbine versions does not use ModTek and is incompatible with BattleTech 1.3. Please delete it and its doc folder before upgrade.

Turbine Version 1.1.1 for BATTLETECH 1.1.2 & 1.2.0

Turbine is a BattleTech mod that lighten and speed up the game's resource loading.

Installation

1. Install BTML. ModTek is not necessary.
2. Download this mod, extract in the mod folder. i.e. You should see BATTLETECH\Mods\Turbine.dll.
3. Launch and play as normal. This mod has no settings.
4. If the game crash or hang up during a loading screen or blank screen, delete the mod and try again.

Change Log

• Safer json parsing and let BattletechPerformanceFix get the first go at it.
• Disable concurrent load check to speed up resource loading, suggested by m22spencer.
• Various small optimisations and speedups.

Turbine Version 1.1 for BATTLETECH 1.1.2 & 1.2.0

Turbine is a BattleTech mod that lighten and speed up the game's resource loading.

Installation

1. Install BTML. ModTek is not necessary.
2. Download this mod, extract in the mod folder. i.e. You should see BATTLETECH\Mods\Turbine.dll.
3. Launch and play as normal. This mod has no settings.
4. If the game crash or hang up during a loading screen or blank screen, delete the mod and try again.

Change Log

• New: Speed up json comment removal (may not work when BattletechPerformanceFix is used; these things take time to iron out).
• New: Multi-thread data file hashing that make use of your cores and IO queue.
• New: Share and compile CSVReader.ReadRow regular expression.
• Fix the bug where campaign mech bay may stuck at blank transition when switching between mechs of same 3D models.
• Fix a bug that may hangs the game when loading a save.

Turbine Version 1.0.5 for BATTLETECH 1.1.2

Turbine is a BattleTech mod that lighten and speed up the game's resource loading.

For installation and other info see release 1.0.

Warning: Reported by RogueTech players to fail to load some saves. Revert to 1.0.4 if that happens to you.

Update

• Moves mod log to background thread to reduce io block.
• Reduce dependency check of MechComponentDef as requested by m22spencer.
• Test compatible with jo's BTML v0.3 fork. Previous versions should work but I won't go back to test them!

Turbine Version 1.0.4 for BATTLETECH 1.1.2

Turbine is a BattleTech mod that lighten and speed up the game's resource loading.

For installation and other info see release 1.0.

Update

• A better fix for blank mech loadout in Skirmish mech bay.

Turbine Version 1.0.3 for BATTLETECH 1.1.2

Turbine is a BattleTech mod that lighten and speed up the game's resource loading.

For installation and other info see release 1.0.

Update

• Fix mechbay's mech loadout may be blank. It's a temporary fix until I find out how to properly fix it.

Note: This is a re-release to re-tag the correct source code. The download file is the same as the original 1.0.3 release.

Turbine Version 1.0.2 for BATTLETECH 1.1.2

Turbine is a BattleTech mod that lighten and speed up the game's resource loading.

Download the normal version.
Do not use debug version unless asked by someone to or you are very curious. It is very slow.

For installation and other info see release 1.0.

Update

• Fix a potential NRE in VFXNames.AllNames

Turbine Version 1.0.1 for BATTLETECH 1.1.2

Turbine is a BattleTech mod that lighten and speed up the game's resource loading.

Download the normal version.
Do NOT use debug version unless your game crashes and you want to help by contributing the debug log.

For installation and other info see release 1.0.

Update

• Added queue time logging and add nexus mods link to documentation.

Turbine Version 1.0 for BATTLETECH 1.1.2

Turbine is a BattleTech mod that lighten and speed up the game's resource loading.

Use the normal version.
Do NOT use debug version unless your game crashes and you want to help by contributing the debug log.

Installation

1. Install BTML. ModTek is not necessary.
2. Download this mod, extract in the mod folder. i.e. You should see BATTLETECH\Mods\Turbine.dll.
3. Launch and play as normal. This mod has no settings.
4. If the game crash or hang up during a loading screen or blank screen, delete the mod and try again.

Change Log

• Faster and safer than the pre-releases you may find floating around on AIM or Discord before 2018 Aug.