# How to read this document

This document is intended for anyone interested in improving load times. However, improving load times can be done in many different ways. That is why this document gives different scenarios and explains for each scenario how to improve the load times. Although the scenarios do not represent every possible situation, reading (and applying) this document will give you enough knowledge to apply the tool in your project's specific situation.

Because the tool is fairly complicated at first sight, this document builds up slowly towards the scenarios that teach you how to use the tool. The document is divided into the following sections:

## Gathering profile data

This section discusses how to get file profile event data into in the tool. Three types of file profile event data are described: XBOX 360 emulator file event data, Playstation 3 ProDG file event data and SimpleProfiler file event data.

## Exploring the tool

This section gives a high level description of the tool's different parts and views: main form and profile form. It also talks about the meanings of the words the tool uses, such as "delay time", "intra file seek time", etc. Reading this section familiarizes you with the vocabulary used by the tool. It is essential to read so that you know what all the different things mean. It also helps you discuss the load time subject matter with other people who are familiar with the vocabulary.

## Scenarios

This section provides a few scenarios and provides an explanation of how certain load time problems can be identified, and remedied, using the tool. The discussed scenarios cover some most common cases that resulted from what we encountered while applying the tool to games such as ""Need for Speed", "Skate", "Fifa", "NBA", "Fifa street", "Pummel", "NFL Tour", and others.

## Additional resources

This section provides some additional resources like contact information and where to find the tool and the example data.

## Future of File Profile Analyzer

This section provides an overview of some of the features that are on our TODO list and how you can help to improve the tool.

## Using the command line

This section shows you how to use the File Profile Analyzer from the command line.

## Contact

This topic will provide you with contact information.

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