The Powder Toy

jacob1

I have left tpt running before and not seen any HUUUUUGE memory leaks like 1.3GB, but if it were doing that to you that would definitely be the cause of the lag. Does it happen as soon as you start up and just leave it empty? Do you have any odd settings on, or lua scripts running?

I have similar computer specs to you and don't get this.

Edit: I tried changing all the settings, even double sized screen mode, and couldn't make it happen still

boxmein

@china-richway2 (View Post)
>That means, this problem is because particles does not disappear for a long time

@Oats (View Post)
>Maybe tpt has some inert memory leak. Perhaps we should double cheack the parts of the code that free memory?

Please never again ever fire a gun with a blindfold, or for that matter, take blind stabs at how Powder Toy does its things. If you find the source code line that causes this, feel free to poke at it while it isn't fixed but really.

doyfo

This post is hidden because the user is banned

china-richway2

@boxmein (View Post)

I like disassembling and find passwords. I'm just doing that on TPT this time.

@jacob1

This is my powder.pref file without my password:

{
"InstallCheck" : true,
"Renderer" : {
  "ColourMode" : "0",
  "DisplayModes" : [],
  "RenderModes" : [
   "400f381"
  ],
  "GravityField" : false,
  "Decorations" : true,
  "DebugMode" : true
},
"Simulation" : {
  "EdgeMode" : "0",
  "NewtonianGravity" : "0",
  "AmbientHeat" : "0",
  "PrettyPowder" : "0"
},
"Decoration" : {
  "Red" : "0",
  "Green" : "0",
  "Blue" : "0",
  "Alpha" : "ff"
},
"User" : {

####fake####
},
"Scale" : "1",
"Console" : {
"History" : [

####nospam####
]
},
"WindowX" : "172",
"WindowY" : "ed"
}

jacob2

Everything looks normal there, so it must be something else. I was thinking maybe double size mode but I guess not. You do absolutely nothing once starting it up, right?

china-richway2

@jacob2 (View Post)

Empty screen works for me. Normal saves, static saves work for me. My processor don't work for me.

No, this screen is too small to use double size mode. (I didn't test full screen mode)

mniip

@china-richway2 (View Post)
particle array is never deallocated

greymatter

@doyfo (View Post)
doy?

and I left TPT running for about half an hour but didn't experience any lag or fps drop on an empty simulation.

mniip

@jacob1 (View Post)
There's a memory leak in browser, you can make it allocate infinite memory by simply viewing a lot of pages or previewing each save

china-richway2

@mniip (View Post)

Yes, I say something related to particle array (for example, memory that stores portal data) and that block of memory didn't free

FPS Drop over time