memory use in Standalones

[Wilhelm Sanke]

It is difficult to judge what causes the long loading time without
knowing the structure of your stack, but there are some general
recommendations:

- do not import images into you stack, reference them by filename

- do not import sound and movie files

- break up your stack into two or more stacks

- as a standalone choose a small "front" stack, from which you call the
other stacks

- set "dontuseQT" to true in the openstack handler, because it takes
extra time to load Quicktime (you can still use visual effects without
Quicktime).

Regards,

Wilhelm Sanke



> From: "Mathewson"
> Subject: memory use in Standalones
> Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 04:22:43 -0400
>
> So, having got my way round all the other problems I ran off
> 3 standalones: one for Mac 9, one for Mac 10 (aka X) and one
> for Windows.  Bung the CD in a real Windows machine (after
> the glacially slow experience with Virtual PC) and find that
> even on a state-of-the-whatsit Pentium 4 with pots of RAM it
> takes donkey's ages to load - once loaded it is fine; but
> the long load time means that my target audience (spotty
> teenagers) will have gone clicky-click-click-click all over
> the shop and the teacher supervising the session will have
> rung up NUT about early retirement and industrial tribunals.
> Similar probs with the Mac versions.
>
> Is this because the machines are loading lots of stuff into
> the RAM/and,or/Virtual Memory?
>
> Is this because I'm a thick wazzuck"
>
> Enlightenment would be gratefully received.
>
> Mathewson
>