[SUGGESTION] Change default skin to a more performant one.

[divinebeam]

The current default selected skin "Classic GDI" seems to have the worst performance (especially when zoomed out) of the available options, a better choice for default would be "Classic OpenGL" or "Remastered SD". Some beginner users might not realize these options are available and suffer the bad performance for no good reason.

[TheNitesWhoSay]

I am hoping to make classic GL the default skin and scrap or deprecate GDI, but for some computers the load time for classic GL is still poor; what it really needs to have better load times is a JIT loader/loading only necessary grps/frames (and maybe passively loading the rest in the background), which I'll have a better ability to do as I get further in animation...

A possible alternative is a shader capable of reading the GRP format - be it for direct display or just for faster loading into textures - there's no guarantee that a shader could be made fast enough for direct rendering or faster to create a texture (than CPU texture load times) for the compressed GRP format, but probably worth exploring.

A third alternative is having the first load generate a cache of textures on disk; the trick here is unpacked GRPs take up not insignificant space, and more disk reads may not be faster than CPU texture creation.

But yeah, more exploration needed.