CRAZY RAM USAGES -- Need Help -- Thanks :)
Hi.
So recently I finished my new app "LiveMix Pro" for the iPad (originally designed and tested on iPad 2) and the only main problem right now is that the app for some reason is using up too much RAM leading into crashes especially when it's the first time your opening the app. It's a music application but in the RAM usage details on GS Viewer it says that out of the total 300 MB (approx.) RAM that it uses, 100 MB is used for images and another 100 MB used for the engine. Sound and other RAM usages are around 50 MB combined but I'm more concerned for the Images and the game engine. I've tried cleaning up my logic and unchecking "Preload Art" on all images and so on. But nothing seems to be working, and maybe It's making it even worse. And just for the info, my app has one main scene that loads up a lot of actors (around 200) (many without image) and also a lot of sound needs to be loaded. The main loading in the beginning takes up to 35 seconds on the iPad 2 and the problem is that sometimes as soon as the loading is done or you use an instrument too much (for example the piano in the app), it Crashes. I've done so many things to reduce RAM but nothing has changed, if not made worse! please please please help me out with this app because I'm getting very tired of trying to make the app better and seeing no results. Also does anyone know when the lua engine will be available so maybe that could help the app load faster? Please comment any solutions or answers you have, I would really appreciate it. Thank You.
So recently I finished my new app "LiveMix Pro" for the iPad (originally designed and tested on iPad 2) and the only main problem right now is that the app for some reason is using up too much RAM leading into crashes especially when it's the first time your opening the app. It's a music application but in the RAM usage details on GS Viewer it says that out of the total 300 MB (approx.) RAM that it uses, 100 MB is used for images and another 100 MB used for the engine. Sound and other RAM usages are around 50 MB combined but I'm more concerned for the Images and the game engine. I've tried cleaning up my logic and unchecking "Preload Art" on all images and so on. But nothing seems to be working, and maybe It's making it even worse. And just for the info, my app has one main scene that loads up a lot of actors (around 200) (many without image) and also a lot of sound needs to be loaded. The main loading in the beginning takes up to 35 seconds on the iPad 2 and the problem is that sometimes as soon as the loading is done or you use an instrument too much (for example the piano in the app), it Crashes. I've done so many things to reduce RAM but nothing has changed, if not made worse! please please please help me out with this app because I'm getting very tired of trying to make the app better and seeing no results. Also does anyone know when the lua engine will be available so maybe that could help the app load faster? Please comment any solutions or answers you have, I would really appreciate it. Thank You.
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Are they at the correct resolution? i.e. not unnecessarily big that it takes too much RAM.
As for the LUA engine, no-one knows exactly when it will be released, all I will say is they have recently released a game themselves that uses the LUA free engine, you can check it here for free;
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/shred-neffland-featuring-deadmau5/id586428512?mt=8
I notice you don't seem to be a PRO member and upon its initial release, the LUA free engine is intended to be a Pro only feature!
On the other hand using an image optimiser to reduce the number of colours in your image file will make your file size smaller but will have no effect on RAM usage as all the images are held in 24 bit colour space when played on your target device.
So . . . If your 2.8 MB of image data started life as 78 MB prior to being optimized then this 2.8 MB will end up being around* 78 MB when playing on the device.
(*This is an overly simplified explanation)