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    Vilhem Dijkstra
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    Balmung
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    Machinist Lv 90
    No, you can't really load the other cutscenes the same way you can the opening FMV.

    The main difference is the opening FMV is pre-rendered, that is, it is an actual movie file already drawn and compressed. This is why the characters, like our derplander and his party, have very realistic looking models and textures. If your computer tried to draw that the same way it does the other in-game cutscenes, your PC would either choke and die, or spend the next 30 days loading each frame xD

    The ingame cutscenes, like the Gaius battle in Mor Dhona for example, is drawn/rendered the moment the game tells your computer to run it. It also has to call your current character data, and the model for your path companion, which it cannot do unless it contacts the server for that information.
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    Last edited by Vilhem; 01-05-2013 at 08:51 PM.
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