PrivateProfileRedirector SE - Faster game start (INI file cacher)

Problem

The issue this plugin tries to solve comes from the fact that the game uses an old, deprecated and extremely inefficient function to load values from INI files. The function in question is GetPrivateProfileString (and the rest of PrivateProfile function family to lesser extent), a relic of 16-bit operating system. But do you know what is worse than using such a function? Using it hundreds of thousands of times. Apparently the game uses that function for every game setting individually, which means that the same INI file is opened and closed hundreds of times. What really makes this terrible is the fact that for each enabled plugin the game will attempt to read all the same settings from a hypothetical INI file that that plugin might or might not be loading. So you end up with an insane amount of incredibly inefficient calls for each enabled mod plugin. As a solution this mod will hook the functions involved and load the target INI files in memory so that each following call to the same INI file will be much faster as it will read directly from memory and will not require opening the file from scratch again.

The amount of seconds that this mod will reduce your start time by depends on the amount of enabled plugins you have, as well as other things using INI files such as ENB (though ENB comes with its own loading issues that this mod can't fix). It will be basically imperceptible when used on the vanilla game and will go up from there, shaving off 6 seconds for 50 or so plugins, up to 20+ seconds for 250+ plugins.

Solution

When the game, ENB or something else calls GetPrivateProfileString for the first time this plugin will load requested file in memory and return required data. Next time, no file will be loaded and data will be fetched from memory as well. Same thing happens when process tries to write a value to file. Instead of opening file again, parse and save to disk the plugin will write data it to in-memory file and then saves to disk (if allowed). Also all files is saved on game close, if game won't crash in process.

Covered WinAPI functions

• []GetPrivateProfileStringA

  []GetPrivateProfileStringW

  []WritePrivateProfileStringA

  []WritePrivateProfileStringW

  []GetPrivateProfileIntA

  []GetPrivateProfileIntW

  []GetPrivateProfileSectionNamesA

  []GetPrivateProfileSectionNamesW

  []GetPrivateProfileSectionA

  []GetPrivateProfileSectionW

  Integrations

  Script Extender (XSE)

  The mod supports XSE and, if used with the matching XSE build, will use XSE to bind to some of the game's events (such as game saving) and call this mod functions from the game's console.

  This integration cur