Hello

Here is my statstics:
Hardware:
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 5600
Memory: 2G DDR2 PC-800
VGA: Palit 8600GT
Mainboard: MSI (Code: MS-7260)
Software:
OS: MS Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
DirectX: November 2008
IDE: CodeGear C++Builder 2007
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Ok the problem is that I was using A7 v7.0.7 and my project was reserve about 370 MB from the physical memory
now after I updated to any newer version of A7 (last time I tested v7.6.6) the amount of used memory is increased to become about 480 MB ... I didn't change anything in my program just the ackenx.lib of course

Is there a way to avoid this issue I really want to use the new soft-shadow in the newer versions.

I'll be waiting for the answer.

thanks in advance
Mysterious

Are you sure that you are not confusing physical and virtual memory? Physical memory is managed by the Windows OS, not by a program like Gamestudio.

When you want to know how much memory your game needs, look at the virtual memory and the nexus, you see it in the debug panel.

I obviously can't fix the physical memory on your PC - if you have problems with that, go in a computer shop and buy some more. But I suppose you meant virtual memory.

Engine updates normally consume the same or less memory, not more. If it's different with a particular project of yours, check by what element it's caused. The [F11] panel helps you in that. Please post again when you know some details about which object consumes more memory and under which circumstances.

Well...
first of all thank you for responding

in "Windows Task Manager" under the "Mem Usage" column the number was on older version about 370MB and when I update to the newer one it turns to about 480MB

ok I'll try to track the reason of this problem and post again

Mysterious

Ok after a very hard work I figured out that the memory issue is from ENTITY,
after I take a look at the "atype.h" header and compared it with the one came with A7 v7.0.7 the difference is in the ENTITY struct there is two additional pointers to ENTITY which are
"
struct ENTITY* shadow; // shadow sprite or model
struct ENTITY* parent; // parent entity
"

so to see this by your self try two scene with only one ENTITY the difference is more obvious when more than one entity is created.
in my scene there is more than 100 entity so the memory increased about 100 Mega bytes

if there is a solution for this I'll be thankful

thanks in advance
Mysterious

The two pointers add 8 bytes, but 12 bytes were removed at another place, so an entity is in fact 4 bytes shorter than with version 7.07. None of our levels consumes more memory in 7.07 than in 7.70.

Still, thats only an additional 8 BYTES per Entity. Not very significant.

JCL: As a side question on these additions to the entity struct, do shadow and parent
ever get populated by the engine if you are NOT using the templates?

Parent is automatically set in map entities, but shadow is not set unless you set it by script.

Ok another test...

in the med -version 6.902- I load one model of the models I used in my project
and then from File menu ->Engine Preview
the process "acknex.exe" take in the task manager under column "Mem Usage" = 31.392K
but when I load the same model in the med -version 6.894- and do the same
the process "acknex.exe" take in the task manager under column "Mem Usage" = 24.144K

please see the difference it is only one model!

again wait for your help JCL

thanks

Hello

I was waiting for 5 days now and no answer, so may I know what happens, did anyone who had read this post try the last test so he can tell me the result

or what I have to do now!!!

Mysterious