[Trackballs-development] Re: latest release

[Mathias B. <ma...@ho...>]

On Thursday 03 April 2003 23:20, you wrote:
> > Quote from the happypenguin trackballs page:
> > > may be it is problem in way that game use OGL? Someone with 700MB r=
am
> > > had this problem too. I know, that it won't work on RAGE128; may be
> > > GFORCE, VOODOO etc. are ok?
> >
> > arrrghhhh!!!!! ;-)
>
> Just a thought:
> Maybe it's the the OpenGL initialization part? The game seems to grab t=
his
> huge hunk of memory before starting a game even. As soon as the menu sc=
reen
> appears...

There might  be two problems here. The first one that the game allocated =
32bit=20
textures for the graphics, which takes a lot of memory, but maybe I can m=
ake=20
a workaround by using a GL_contex where I still can use SDL_blit's instea=
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Another problem I suspect is that i somewhere do something with OpenGL in=
 the=20
wrong way (eg. forgetting to pop some queue etc.) which  is handled=20
gracefully by many but not all drivers. That would explain why only a few=
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people notice huge memory leaks.

I haven't had time for any debuging recently but I will definitly priorit=
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this issue... I *hope* that we will have fixed all the memory leaks for t=
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next 1.0.0 release.

/ Mathias