Question about predicting frequently used images

[tcassat]

Hello!

My game has a "world map" and it is accessible from almost any screen. The world map is composed of about 20 images (including the imagebuttons that represent each location), but Renpy only predict the first 5 images. This means that when the player clicks on the "world map" button for the first time, he has to wait for about 1 or 2 seconds.

I wanted to make these images predicted at the beginning of the game and stay in memory all the time until the game is closed. For this, I was suggested to use this at the beginning of the script:

"renpy.start_predict_screen("maps files")"

With this, will the map files always be available while the game is running, or will Renpy predict other images and overwrite the old ones during the game?

If this solution is not ideal, does anyone know how I could solve this problem?