Is general biffing still recommended for the Enhanced Editions

Canes

I have no idea what it's about, but I've heard it can improve performance. So is it still required for the EE versions?
Also, where can I find some recent Enhanced Edition discussion on this topic?

Gallowglass

Biffing?

argent77

It's not strictly needed anymore. The game still runs fine even with tens or hundreds of thousands of files in the override.

It was required for large mod installations in the original games which would freeze sooner or later because of the large number of files.

@Gallowglass Biffing is the process of packing all the files from the override folder into archives with ".bif" extension. They can usually be found in the "data" subfolder of the game.

Canes

Oh I see, thank you for the explanation... so it's more or less like archiving files into a zip format.
BWS said I ended up with about 23.400 mods data, but If I get decreased performance I should General Biff, that's why I asked.
Thank you again.

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If you experience low frame rate, or lag or any kind of bad performance on a game as old as baldurs gate, that would suggest something bad about your PC. I recommend downloading ccleaner, malwarebytes, and avast. get the free versions of each, and have them scan your PC, one at a time.

Canes

Thanks for the history lesson but that's not quite it. The Infinity Engine had some ...limitations when it came to installing over 10.000 mod related files, it would occasionally stutter and cause frame-rate drops. So it's not like Baldur's Gate is performing poorly per-se.
Anyway, it doesn't seem to be the case anymore for the Enhanced Editions.