hi i'm developing an application where i need to load several models, but i show it and when the user press space bar i delete that one and load another one, my problem is that the memory of the process reach to 2gb.

i tried with ent_purge(), ent_remove(), and on the stats of gamestudio said that i'm releasing the memory but on my task manager the process acknex.exe *32 the memory is growing with each new model i load.

if some know why this is happening because, this is a big problem for me and i have to resolve this quickly for my project.

My game studio version is 7 and my computer has windows 7 ultimate 64x

ent_remove just removes the entity. ent_purge removes the entities texture from video memory not from RAM.

Try if a "level_load(NULL);" works out for you. Whats the size of the models you use?

i tried level_load(NULL); but is the same, my models are from 859kb to 74,211kb i tried to reduce it all i can, with smaller textures and change the texture from tga to DDS textures.

Also i notice that on the statics:
*m virtual memory allocation (sys_memory)

is growing with each model i load

Ok, so your models basically vary between 1 and 70 MB. There is still a long road to hit the 2 GB mark. Can you please post the code you're using?

well i can't because i signed a form that prohibit me of do it, but basically this my code in general terms.

First i use ackmysql plugin to connect to a database where i have the name and address where is located the models that i'm going to load, this information i load it in an array.

Then in the loop on the main method i check if the user press the bar i load the first model of the array that i get from the database, then if the user press it again the i clean up the entity with ent_purge and the load the next model with ent_morph.

Also i use the awakelib because i need in some part of the code a stack that is implemented in this library, and another library to make this an AR application.

Sorry that i cant show you my code but, i hope you understand

Ok, as you're not allowed to show your code I can only do wild guesses here. The level_load instruction should in any way solve your problem. When you perform a level_load all entities are removed and their files get removed from the level cache.

My basic idea is as follows:

Does that help you solve the problem?

mmm i tried what you mentioned about level_load but the problem is that it cause a error, for example i lost my background that is image from my camera that is used for the AR part, because that is a entity(plane with the frame of the camera).

And the part of Augmented Reality is important for the program, but that part of the AR what i see that it does is create a entity(plane) with the frames of the camera and load some libraries that can detect a mark and return the position,rotation of the mark in general, because i didn't create that library and is a little complex to contact right now ,the developer who implemented.

i don't if there something like level_load but more controlled that doesn't remove all from the memory just what the models that i load is removed something like ent_purge but for the RAM

I neither know awakelib, nor what an AR Application is sorry. level_load will of cause remove all entities. When you use an entity for background you have to re-create this one as well. Alternatively set up a map in WED that fits your needs and load that map instead of an emtpy map.

awakelib is a library that a user from this forum implemented to manage queue, stacks, linked list.

and the AR library is for a detection of a mark with a webcamera that return the position and rotation and you can load a 3d model on the mark, there are a lot of examples in youtube of augmented reality apps.