Memory management
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 8:57 am
Hello everyone.
First let me thank you all for this great project.
I have a problm with playing Ultima7 (BG) on my Zaurus, and from what I understand others have this problem as well. Basically, the Zaurus has a small memory (about 28 MB, some which is already used by the OS itself, cache, buffers, etc.) So there are only about 8MB available for Exult.
For some reason, Exult needs more memory than that, after 10-30 minutes of playtime, and Qtopia (Zaurus' GUI) will complain about low memory, which efectively causes Exult to lose the focus, not reciving any events whatsoever. The worse thing is that Qtopia also loses the events handling, so you can't do anything except for dock your PDA, SSH to it, and kill the offending process.
My suggestion is to have some option, in the ini file, where you can set the max amount of memory Exult is allowed to use. I realise that Exult was meant for desktop computers, so memory management is not that important now that most of the computers have over 128 MB RAM, but still, it would be nice to be able to play it on PDAs without crashings.
First let me thank you all for this great project.
I have a problm with playing Ultima7 (BG) on my Zaurus, and from what I understand others have this problem as well. Basically, the Zaurus has a small memory (about 28 MB, some which is already used by the OS itself, cache, buffers, etc.) So there are only about 8MB available for Exult.
For some reason, Exult needs more memory than that, after 10-30 minutes of playtime, and Qtopia (Zaurus' GUI) will complain about low memory, which efectively causes Exult to lose the focus, not reciving any events whatsoever. The worse thing is that Qtopia also loses the events handling, so you can't do anything except for dock your PDA, SSH to it, and kill the offending process.
My suggestion is to have some option, in the ini file, where you can set the max amount of memory Exult is allowed to use. I realise that Exult was meant for desktop computers, so memory management is not that important now that most of the computers have over 128 MB RAM, but still, it would be nice to be able to play it on PDAs without crashings.