Good Memory or Bad Memory?

irongirong Member Posts: 41
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
Hello guys,

i decided to test something for my games : Do a maximum of things in the same SCENE to avoid scene loading.... TshirtBooth said that it was dangerous cause no memory is free so the game could crash at a time...

So i did some test and that's true, the memory is never free, BUT after a good amount of gameplay the memory usage is stuck to 69MB to 70MB...Do you know guys if it's a correct amount? or way to much ?

Also do you know if i am in Scene A and i change scene to scene A again it has the same effect as changing to scene B ?
Thanks for your Help

Comments

  • irongirong Member Posts: 41
    i also notice now,if i continue playing and playing i got now FPS drop higher and higher... it was 60 to 59 after a long time it's now 60 to 40 fps...
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    Well that high of memory is bad period. It will for sure crash a 3G and Prob a 3GS Theres nothing wrong with having a lot of stuff in the same scene as long as long as you can manage the memory ok but if you are getting memory usage that high its no good.
  • irongirong Member Posts: 41
    hello thanks for your replay

    So you find that 70MB is too much ? cause actually i am at 76 MB :) memory usage
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    On what? I just ran something on the viewer for iphone 4 that read almost 200Mb that doesn't mean it will function in an actual build.
  • irongirong Member Posts: 41
    I got an iPhone4, but of course i am trying to aim the 3GS also.
    what's your advice for memory usage max on those devices?

    thanks for help
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    Those numbers prob are not going to kill a 3GS or an iPhone 4. But it definitely wont be good for a 3G. I wouldn't go much more though cause it will prob start to hurt the 3GS.
  • irongirong Member Posts: 41
    ok thanks i try to stay under 80MB then! thanks for the tips!
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    3G and under max out around 45
  • irongirong Member Posts: 41
    Do you think guys if putting out a big market today if we focus, 4G and 3GS only?
  • ozboybrianozboybrian PRO Posts: 2,102
    Could be risky. Do extensive testing, if all goes well, release it, if people have problems you'll have to do an update.

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  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    whats the breakdown of the ram usage?
    images?
    audio?
    engine?
    other?
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