on 6/18/01 10:03 AM, Brian Piper at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We've been watching the memory inspector, and it spikes blue just before
> the program crashes...we're trying to narrow down exactly what it's
> loading/unloading that would crash the program and the machine. We are
> using a script to unload marker for the previous page, and to load the next
> page, and we unload movie at the end of each movie.
>
> If anyone has any ideas, or easy changes to the program structure/memory
> management that would help, any advice would be much appreciated, as the
> deadline is LOOMING...
>
> Thanks!!!
Are you using Director 8? I just did a huge project that had the same
problems. (In fact I asked this very list for ideas, as well ;). Basically,
the freeBytes kept telling me that my memory management was doing fine, but
when the testing house used the Task Manager in Win2K Pro, it showed that
memory kept climbing and climbing until ALL sorts of anomalies started to
happen. Including crashes.
I basically did all the memory control myself. Unload, unload, UNLOAD!
One thing to really check are your audio files. I puppet my audio files a
lot and only use the sound channels for background music, but using either
application I've found, Director leaves the audio in memory. You have to
explicitly unloadmember (your audiofilename). Try tracking the loaded of
your audio files in the watcher and you'll see what I mean.
Good luck,
JRS
p.s. Remember UNLOAD :) Director 8's memory management is pretty damn bad.
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