So ya the c++ implementation of reading files is nice, but come on, what's better ? fopen : 12.9 seconds to copy 10 megs OR ifstream : 17.3 seconds to copy 10 megs? It's a tough one, but when making a game that requires constant loading of textures and data, what would be better ? I have yet to learn the fopen library well, but so far it seems awesome. Does anyone know of a faster method ? Thanks in advance

For something as simple as copying data, I'd be surprised if there was that much difference between the two libraries. Are you comparing fread/fwrite with istream::read/ostream::write? What buffer size are you using?

Of course, whatever result you get depends on your compiler's library implementation. When the C++ iostreams library first came about, many were just built on top of the old C library, but they're *apparently* are a lot better now.