The "Edit and Continue" feature of MSVC is your friend. Also try
"+mat_picmip 2 -sw" to run windowed and with the low res textures.
"-nosound" should help a bit as well.

- Alfred

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Aljudy Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 10:06 PM To: hlcoders
Subject: [hlcoders] loading times

> When one is coding, he's probably gonna test alot, but I noticed that
> loading takes a long time .. and that makes testing harder ..
> often I just want to test a small little thing, then after
> expereminting with it a little, I'd want to change it and test again
> .. and so on.
>
> What can we do to shorten the time it takes to lead the game and the
> levels?
> I personally don't care about graphics when I'm coding, so the first
> thing I did was set -dxlevel 70 I don't really know if that helps
> much, but what settings can we use to shorten loading times as much
> as possible? does increasing the heapsize help, or does too much heap
> cause troubles?
>
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