Hi @ll
Can someone give me a hint how to debug the memory of a running 3dStudio Game? I use the SED Editor but the debugging functions are not the best.
If I run our game in –diag mode and hit “F11” I see that the memory increases every Second (or Frame) but the amount of entities didn’t increase. So is there a fast solution to find out why this happens? How will you solve memory – problems?

Thanks

Hi,
Are you making entities by "ent_create"?? If yes, make sure you didn't put it in a "while".

Yes,

that's right. But I not see that the amount of entities increase. They are stable. So I thinkt that it must be an other problem.

can you post your code? if it's not too big...

Oh I think it is too big.
So that’s why I would find a good solution to solve the problem. We have a lot of functions, and files and so on.

Isn't it possible to retrieve the names of all the functions that are currently running? So I have a point to start with.

So what thinks can increase the memory regularly, except the Entities?

check your while loops. there's got to be something that's adding and adding constantly.

does your problem occur when running compiled(exe) version?

how much the memory increases? every second 1mb? how much aprox.?

No, I have not tried it with an .exe but I will test it if I am at home.

The increase has the following cycle every 1/2 second:

+1KB
+1KB
+1KB
+1KB
+~300KB
+1KB

And then from the beginning.

Maybe it is the Debug Modus? I must check.

do you maybe have some loop that runs or does something every 2-3 seconds?

I will check all this thinks if I'm out of the office.
And then I will come back here :-)

Could be some memory-leak in the engine itself.
Maybe a bug in some function.
Or the engine does not garbage-collect temporary objects/arrays.

The only chance to find it would be then to turn certain parts of
the code on and off.

Do you use physics or particles, or an enternal dll?

Try out a level-load and see if the memory gets cleared up.

If you cant figure out what the cause is, and its not
some fault in your code (undeleted entities or unexited functions in a loop), you should contact the developers.