Heavy RAM usage ?
moses92
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Hello ,
Ive been working on a project (a simple / casual addicting type game ) for the past month on gamesalad and yesterday I ran into some kind of trouble .
Basically the game gives the player the option to choose from a list of 3 characters to play with, with different sprites and animations to everyone one of them . Each of the 3 characters has 6 different animations ( 20 frames each , every animation averaging about 130kb ) .
While testing out each character alone , the game ran smooth and nice . However when i moved all 3 characters into the game , it started crashing and the RAM usage was really high ( 156mb ) .
Why is this happening ? how come all of the 3 characters are eating up the RAM while only one is actually active and in the game ?
Im testing it out on a 3rd gen iPod Touch .
PS - all the images are retina display resolution .
Ive been working on a project (a simple / casual addicting type game ) for the past month on gamesalad and yesterday I ran into some kind of trouble .
Basically the game gives the player the option to choose from a list of 3 characters to play with, with different sprites and animations to everyone one of them . Each of the 3 characters has 6 different animations ( 20 frames each , every animation averaging about 130kb ) .
While testing out each character alone , the game ran smooth and nice . However when i moved all 3 characters into the game , it started crashing and the RAM usage was really high ( 156mb ) .
Why is this happening ? how come all of the 3 characters are eating up the RAM while only one is actually active and in the game ?
Im testing it out on a 3rd gen iPod Touch .
PS - all the images are retina display resolution .
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