Game Development Community

Memory management

by Laralyn McWilliams · in Torque Game Builder · 05/29/2010 (11:01 pm) · 2 replies

I'm working on a fairly image-intensive project, but it seems like the memory use while the game is running is out of proportion with the size of the assets. Here's what I've done so far:

When I started looking at memory, the game was using about 420 MB of RAM.

I checked the size of the actual images, and the entire image folder is 40 MB.

I re-sized the images that make up the bulk of that 40 MB so that they are 1024X512 (power of 2).

I did an image dump and all the dumped image files only totaled 8 MB, and I didn't see anything I didn't expect.

I set ALL images to not preload and to unload, since I was willing to take the performance hit if it helped memory, and it did nothing.

I set all the images to 16 bit, and it did nothing.

I ran the .exe without the builder, and it still used about 420 MB.

I'm starting to think my images aren't the issue. :-)

I'm really new to TGB, and not sure what else could eat so much memory. Is there some kind of profiling I can turn on in the app, or another way I can see what's using memory? Are there any usual suspects I should be checking?

Thanks!
NextNext Thread
PrevPrevious Thread
More from Torque Game Builder


Torque Owner Laralyn McWilliams
#1
05/30/2010 (8:12 pm)
I think there's a memory leak somewhere. After I rebooted my computer, the memory consumed by the app went down to about 170. It was still too high, so I'm working on an optimized version right now... but I still see a memory leak that I would like to get fixed. Where would I start looking?

Torque Owner Kevin James
#2
05/31/2010 (10:04 am)
Fangorodrim takes up abut 140 megs and never goes above that. I started this project from day one with object cleanup functions.

The main level performs this function at the beginning and end of each game:

function GlobalLevel::CleanUpQuadrant(%this)
{
echo("...........CleanUpQuadrant..........");

   if (isObject($sector[0])){
       for (%n=0;%n<%this.sectorCnt;%n++){
          $Sector[%n].DeleteContents();
          $Sector[%n].safeDelete();
       }
   }
}

The sector class has this function:

function SectorLevel::DeleteContents(%this)
{
  if (isEventPending(%this.musicID)) cancel(%this.musicID);
  if (isEventPending(%this.bigID)) cancel(%this.bigID);
  if (isEventPending(%this.smallID)) cancel(%this.smallID);
  if (isEventPending(%this.spawnID)) cancel(%this.spawnID);
  if (isEventPending(%this.warpEventID)) cancel(%this.warpEventID);
  if (isEventPending(%this.hideID)) cancel(%this.hideID);
  if (isEventPending(%this.scoreID)) cancel(%this.scoreID);
  
  if (isObject(%this.contents)){ 
     while(%this.contents.getCount()){
         %obj=%this.contents.getObject(0); 
         if (strlen(%obj.class)>0) %obj.cancelSchedules();  
         %Obj.Delete(); 
     }
       
     %this.contents.Delete(); 
  }
 }

Every game object is created dynamically and added to the contents SimSet of its respective sector as it is created.

Hope this helps!