45.9 Mb memory usage in my first scene, is this too much?

tabelor

Hi, i would like to know how much memory can i use, or were are the iphone 4 limits.
This is a screen capture of my game runing on iphone 4 via GS viewer and as you can see, the frame rate is good.
Now i would like to know if my memory usage is good as well. The scene is unfinished yet.

GamersRejoice

Interesting, I wonder, does the latest iPod perform just as good as the iPhone 4?

quantumsheep

GamersRejoice said:
Interesting, I wonder, does the latest iPod perform just as good as the iPhone 4?

I've noticed that the viewer returns different values depending on what you're testing on.

For example, testing the same project, 35MB total on a 3GS could be 18MB on a 3G and 45MB on an iphone 4.

It's all relative, I guess, as a clever man once said!

QS

EDIT - and to answer your question, the new ipod is basically an iphone 4 without the phone part! So it should have a similar performance!

JlmC

tshirtbooth said:
on the iphone 4 it can go to 80mb of ram before it crashes so your more then good.
that 45mb will change depending on the scene you in.

cheers

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My game has 117mb and runs better than a horse.

JohnPapiomitis

JlmC said:
My game has 117mb and runs better than a horse.

There talking about the memory usage in the viewer, not the size of the project if thats what you mean

Dizko

quantumsheep said:
I've noticed that the viewer returns different values depending on what you're testing on.

For example, testing the same project, 35MB total on a 3GS could be 18MB on a 3G and 45MB on an iphone 4.

It's all relative, I guess, as a clever man once said!

QS

EDIT - and to answer your question, the new ipod is basically an iphone 4 without the phone part! So it should have a similar performance!

Doesn't that have to do with resolution independence? On the iPhone 4 you're using the larger images and on the 3GS you're using the lower res images? Would explain the the difference in the memory usage.

patm1982

something to keep in mind, not everybody will have the newest iphone model. In general people's phone contracts usually last 2 years, so I think its a good measure to make sure your game will work on last years model too. I know 3g to 4g was a huge performance jump.

quantumsheep

Dizko said:
Doesn't that have to do with resolution independence? On the iPhone 4 you're using the larger images and on the 3GS you're using the lower res images? Would explain the the difference in the memory usage.

Actually, no. The resolution independence doesn't kick in (i.e. make smaller copies of your 'big' graphics) until you have a published build. It won't affect Viewer performance (other than make older models run less smoothly as they're using the larger images.

QS

Shanemc

So when you change scenes your memory frees up?

JlmC

JohnPapiomitis said:
There talking about the memory usage in the viewer, not the size of the project if thats what you mean

Yes, im talking about 117mb of memory. Not mb size.

magic101hi

JlmC said:
Yes, im talking about 117mb of memory. Not mb size.

And it does it crash?

-Josh

JlmC

magic101hi said:
And it does it crash?

-Josh

No.

http://likeimg.com/images/screenshot201102gew.png

JohnPapiomitis

JlmC said:
No.

http://likeimg.com/images/screenshot201102gew.png

If i were you i would make a adhoc build asap.

JlmC

Viewer and adhoc and both worked well.

QbAnYtO

JlmC said:
Viewer and adhoc and both worked well.

good god. my first game would crash at 90 lol but then again i had lots of going on. do you have lots going on ur game while the ram is this high?

JlmC

Most are HD images. I have around 30 to 40.