For an offline only game, how does not preloading sounds impact being able to play them the first time?
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Even if offline, playing non preloaded sounds the first time can still result in a delay as the audio is loaded into memory from disk.
The delay may not be large enough to be noticable for a small file though.
Oh yeah, you're right. A large sound wouldn't be able to play until fully loaded to memory because it isn't streaming like audio in the music folder.