Topic: Slack In Games (Read 142 times)

Xboxman20 · « **on:** November 06, 2003, 02:20:00 PM »

What does the SLACK mean in qwix when viewing games does that mean how much of a lag there is or what cuz i notice that games with more slack are sometimes noticable lil lags or something in them

^Blazed^ · « **Reply #1 on:** November 06, 2003, 11:38:00 PM »

QUOTE (Xboxman20 @ Nov 7 2003, 12:20 AM)

What does the SLACK mean in qwix when viewing games does that mean how much of a lag there is or what cuz i notice that games with more slack are sometimes noticable lil lags or something in them

Slack means the difference between the total file size and the total physical size on your HD.

Xboxman20 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 07, 2003, 06:56:00 PM »

WTF does that mean? Will that effect anything with gameplay?

^Blazed^ · « **Reply #3 on:** November 08, 2003, 09:12:00 AM »

Gilrim · « **Reply #4 on:** November 18, 2003, 02:38:00 AM »

FAT-X (eh...FAT31,5 or somethin) uses a clustersize of 16384 bytes (16kb). This means that any file larger than 16k will span two-clusters. each cluster can only be used by one file. thus you get slack. I've got ~2gb slack on a 120gb :/

diagram:

1) Empty clusters
cluster1: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
cluster2: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
cluster3: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

2) Along came a 20,5kb file
cluster1: 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11
cluster2: 11 11 11 11 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
cluster3: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

3) woha! a 6kb file!
cluster1: 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11
cluster2: 11 11 11 11 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
cluster3: 11 11 11 11 11 11 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

geddit?

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