too many images on one card?

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi,

I remember two cases. First case was someone creating a stack with tens of thousands of 4x4 px images. On a 350Ghz machine, showing and hiding one image took several seconds. On a current 2+ ghz machine it will be faster, but I expect it to still be noticeably slow. I didn't try to create a standalone, but this could have been problematic.

The other case is a stack with thousands of cards with several pictures, movies and sounds on each card. The stack as a whole was more than 1 gb big. We had all kinds of inexplicable problems with the stack, including crashes and the impossibility to create a standalone, even after moving to a faster computer with more memory.

What exactly are you trying to do?

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On 27 jan 2012, at 00:52, Nicolas Cueto wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> My 1-card stack has hundreds of small jpgs (about 4kb each), with
> hundreds more jpgs to be added in the near future. All these jpgs are
> on one card, and they are in hidden groups.
> 
> The thing I'm wondering now is, will having so many images all on one
> card cause runtime problems, despite their being hidden? My stacks run
> on old PC boxes -- Win2K, Pentium/Celeron cpus, minimum memory -- and
> I'm worried that this new stack might not run as zippily as the
> others.
> 
> So, do I need to worry?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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> Nicolas Cueto
> 
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