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I noticed that playing a looped OGG file can severely cut my game's performance on the Pocket PC from the near 30fps to as low as 15fps! (Ouch!) I don't know if it's a default or forced setting, since I've never used OGG files before I started with Game Editor, but do they always have to be 44KHz? Does that make a performance difference, compared to a song rendered in 11KHz or 22KHz?

How about MOD, S3M, or XM files versus OGG files? Which takes more processing cycles/CPU time to decode and play these file types? Of course, I'm not looking for benchmark numbers, just a rough calculation or comparison of the different file types.

Bottom line is that I really would want to get a good soundtrack behind my game, but I'm afraid it may really impact it negatively in its performance.

I belive XM's and MOD's are easy on the processor.

They generally take up just a fraction of the memory of the much larger wav and OGG data as well, so you should be able to vary the number of different sound tracks in your game

MOD, XM and IT files are more fast to process than ogg files.

But xm, s3m and mod sounds are significantly worse to listen to than ogg... Quite a dilemma...

Agreed! I've also found that Royalty Free MOD, XM and IT music is hard to come by. I’ve even thought about getting a tracker and doing some music myself, but tbh I’m not musically minded so it'd turn out rubbish, I'd be better off letting my 3 year old son do it

If anyone can recommended any sites for Royalty Free MOD/XM/IT tracks id be most grateful