make faf use less ram

[PattogoTehen]

it seems the "whats new?" page using too much memory. it would be nice if we could close it after reading.

memory usage with News


without News page

[Ionic]

RAM is cheap, 64-bit is common.

[E8400-CV]

72 MB?

Well... yeah, would be nice if it could be closed. Would be even nicer if people with too little RAM didn't play FAF to slow everything down. It seems that in 8 out of every 10 games I play there is someone slowing everything down....

But on the other hand: I got my 16 GB for 90 euro's (now probably 150 new )... I can imagine a lot of people don't really care about that 72 MB.

[D4E_Omit]

Are you using like 4 gb of RAM? Since I havent had any issues with anything slowing down, the work that has to be put in to make that small 72mb even less is way too much for such a small thing. Just buy a 1gb RAM stick for 10 bucks if you really mind that much.

[Voodoo]

You should play a PA game with 8 players. It used over 6 gig from my RAM.

[Exotic_Retard]

You should play a PA game with 8 players. It used over 6 gig from my RAM.

planetary annihilation of pcs?

[eXcalibur]

72 MB?

Well... yeah, would be nice if it could be closed. Would be even nicer if people with too little RAM didn't play FAF to slow everything down. It seems that in 8 out of every 10 games I play there is someone slowing everything down....

But on the other hand: I got my 16 GB for 90 euro's (now probably 150 new )... I can imagine a lot of people don't really care about that 72 MB.

the slowdown of the simspeed is caused by an inferior cpu. ram and gpu have nothing to do with it.

[E8400-CV]

So the amount of RAM used doesn't increase with units in-game?

I somehow never really bothered to check with FAF... although I do have a 2nd (3rd really) screen for Mumble, Outlook, etc.; task manager should fit.

[eXcalibur]

the amount of ram increases, of course.

i have never checked the ram usage of supcom, but like i said: the ram usage does NOT influence the (sim) speed the game runs.
the speed is only influenced (in about 98%) by the cpu. when multiple people play a game, the slowest cpu of everybody sets the speed of the game.

[E8400-CV]

If you run out of RAM and use the harddrive for swapping.... CPU power doesn't really matter I would think...?