2 GB Ram full in less than 2 Minutes

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2 GB Ram full in less than 2 Minutes

Post #1by Videoman » 19.03.2008, 05:44

If i zoom a few Times into Earth, Moon, Mars it doesn't take 3 Minutes - my 2 GB RAM are full and it's going to use the Swapfile on Disk, working about 20 Seconds i can't do anything until i see the next made zoom Action.

I Know i nearly use the biggest Textures for Celestia that are available - on My Win XP 32bit, Core 2 Duo 6600, 2GB RAM, 8800 GTS but i think on my previous Machine with old V 1.4 it was not so much time but i'm not sure.

It seems Celetia stores the loaded Textures into RAM and there they remain even if i swap to an other Planet until the program exits? Is there a Way to clear the Textures out of RAM? Swapfile is too slow for so much Textures.

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Post #2by CAP-Team » 19.03.2008, 22:22

Same here, I tried to simulate a high detailed Hubble Space Telescope flying over a VT-Earth (64K), but the swap file grew to >5 GB and the system was really slow. Memory usage dropped no earlier then when I quit Celestia.
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Post #3by Hungry4info » 20.03.2008, 02:27

It has been discussed that in a future version of Celestia, virtual textures can be dynamically unloaded to free up memory.
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Post #4by Videoman » 20.03.2008, 03:36

Hungry4info wrote:It has been discussed that in a future version of Celestia, virtual textures can be dynamically unloaded to free up memory.


That would be a good Feature, otherwise i need 8 gb RAM and a 64bit Sytem. Although Memory has lower Prices now, it makes Problems on my Board trying to use more than 3 Modules. And because of this that makes no sense for me....


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