Data Folder

Data folder is not essential to successful running of Athena. Skip this if you have no custom item.

On the client side, the files in this folder override the corresponding files in data.grf and sdata.grf to give your server the distinctive characteristics you want. But on the server side, Athena only cares about those files essential to process packets to and from clients. You can therefore leave out files like opening.bik and sclientinfo.xml.

A sample Data folder is available from eaMirror.

Create a Data folder in C:\Program Files\Gravity\RO and copy the content of the downloaded Data folder or put your files into it. You can also paste the downloaded Data folder into C:\Program Files\Gravity\RO.

If you want to do it Linux-styled, create Data folder in C:\RO.

Then edit grf-files.txt and add:

data_dir: C:\RO\Data

Q&A

Can I use the client Data Folder instead of having another one?

Yes. The idea of a server Data folder is to reduce the transfer time from the Windows RO client host and possibly server read time.