[directmusic] Re: Survey
- From: "Scott Morgan" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:11:01 -0800
Yeah, I bet his in game memory usage was no more than a couple of megs! The
X-Box only has 64 MB of RAM in the first place if I remember...
DMP stupidly loads everything into memory no matter if its streaming or not.
My voice meter can get up to 64 after a while, but usually I'm somewhere
between 5-45 voices.
I think I'm getting laxer and laxer about that since there have been no
complaints from the dev team even when I ask, "How am I doing? I'm using
more CPU now..".
My DLS RAM memory usage caps at 11MB, the team has been pretty generous with
me. It's orchestral so I really need as much as I can get. If it was
techno I would prolly be fine with 6MB or less even.
-Scott Morgan
http://Morganstudios.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Booth" <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 4:08 PM
Subject: [directmusic] Re: Survey
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> Well, in actual game memory, the most I've ever done is 300megs of
> sample data. That was for a test project where we didn't really pay
> attention to memory footprint, and went straight for quality and
> interactivity. The 1.2gig project is streaming wav based, and because
> DMP insists on loading all of those wav's into memory when your working
> on them, it's a real heffer of a project. If it actually streamed them,
> like they do in the game, it'd be a lot less..
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Stroud [mailto:paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 6:58 PM
> To: directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [directmusic] Re: Survey
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> Over a gig? Gulp. You can't be serious.
>
> Was this for PC or XBox? I wouldn't expect the entire game to take up
> that much space.
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> By memory, I was talking about RAM. 1.2 gig of RAM would be one hell of
> a minimum requirement.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: directmusic-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20
> > [mailto:directmusic-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jason Booth
> > Sent: 30 January 2003 18:01
> > To: directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [directmusic] Re: Survey
> >
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> >
> > 1). What has been the peak number of Voices you have implemented.=20
> > Please give figures including and excluding the microsoft synth
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> > We usually cap it at 64, although theoretically a large group of
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> > people playing music together in AC2 could generate double ro tripple=20
> > that voice count.=3D20
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> > 2). What has been your largest memory consumption in a single script=20
> > loading?
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> > 500mb
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> > 3) What was the largest peak memory consumption that you have allowed
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> > 1.2gb
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> > 4) How did you measure this
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> > DMPs display - in game it would be streaming..
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> > 5) How large was the largest (in terms of disk space) single project=20
> > you have worked on. Assuming that you use one project per piece of=20
> > music.
> >
> > Not including the source files (which are much, much larger), about a=20
> > gig or so. It compresses down smaller when in MP3 format..
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