Low RAM warning

I don't really understand all this in terms of what this RAM is doing etc., but it sounds like you rock at saving it great to hear the gains you are making, and I hope the rest of the team is boofing development as well as you! I may have to celebrate by having a browse through the armoury for new comm skins...

awesome stuff!

That is the most well earned beer I've ever seen. Now to get one from Ohio to you, while being under 21

Well we want to know more about optimization, offline-mode and save features then buying beer

This thread has turned into an unofficial optimization update thread. He reduced the RAM usage by 1.4GB! That's a HUGE leap forward, in fact, that will allow a lot of people much better performance all across the board. They're obviously working on that stuff, you don't see much interactions from devs, which usually means they're working on something important.

Don't you see? The trick it to send lots of beer to Uber in exchange for enhanced bug solving/feature implementations. I'm sure that'll work out just great.

careful

I wish this crazy government would let a minor buy a beer for someone legal to drink it.

Since it thinks its great to prevent someone legal from buying a beer for a minor, you'd think they'd allow it vice versa

Hah, for me its fascinating, because you as a team made this engine by yourself, and now we as backers see how it grows. When I play games like BF4 or Dota2 I dont know if I could have better fps or not, because I know nothing about that engine comparing to this one. Its great to know what is happening and what is possible.

Anyway, about ram consuption, I think UI process is worth checking out.

And gratz about release of fixes to build! <3

As usual, brilliant

Awesome work Varrak!! I really love these small updates

I suggest that instead you convince your fellow devs that all armory proceeds for the next day are transferred directly to your bank account. Either that or you will have to wait quite some time for all that delicious beer arriving from Old Europe.

RAM usage at 25 minutes into 5 FFA game, not that big because two planets crashed, but that is still awesome.

Great job!

I would love to see offline soon but first the game must be stable for big game with 10 players (admitting everyone have horsepower). Game runs 60 fps for me in 2-3 planets system. More crash as I load the game. I7 3770 oc 4.2 GHz 8 gigs and a 7850 2gb oc should be enough for this game to run at least 30 fps on big games. It crashes all the time.The engine is great but ram usage is too much an issue to prefer offline. I use to play land parties and every time there's a issue that keeps us fixing it we lose time and don't have fun. Organise a party is not easy due to work and busy life. I want the game to be solid so we can play, even online. Then offline will come and we will go back playing in the basement!

You shouldn't crash on large systems, it's usually just a bit slow... A couple of things to check... 1: make sure your drivers are up to date for graphics (get direct from amd), 2: ensure windows page file is on and set to automatic. 3: ensure all your windows updates are installed.

I was playing on a phenom II x3 (updated finally to an fx8320 yesterday not an i7 but still massive boost in pref) with 8gb ram on a large 6 planet system with no problems (fps was low but its an old machine) so your machine should be fine.

Awesome, RAM usage improved quite a bit. Last time i tried, I got a ram-crash for two 1.3k planets in system editor, now i'm left with 2gb free while having one browser open.
Although that might have been be my fault to some degree. Still notably better.

Also improved framerate in system editor. When going for one of the big planets, the fps changed from ~35 to ~45. Nice work.