Memory question

[HitoV]

I have been testing a game on iphone and I notice on the first run it has little pauses when new actors make an appearance. Say for instance, the first time I press a bomb button. The animation plays very slow and everything slows to a crawl for those few seconds. But then after the initial load it runs very smooth every time it is called afterwards. My question: is there a way that I can can load all pictures for the level into memory before hand to avoid these random skips?

Is there a way to release them after the level is done in preparation for the next?

[phyzix5761]

As the option: "Create at startup" selected? If not, then this could be a reason why you have lag.

Another way to handle this is to load actors on level start and put the view at a loading screen while the actors are populating. You would, of course, have to write some code to load up the actors that way.

[HitoV]

Cool cool, thanks! I was thinking of something along the same lines. The create at startup is not an option for me as I have a massive dat file with multiple levels. I am thinking I could write a script that would have a loading variable for all the level actors and that would make it cycle all animations then dispose of it. But I was hoping there was another way to write to memory and then hopefully release it from memory after the level is complete =(

[skydereign]

Yeah, there isn't anything provided by gE that would let you do something like this. It's a little too low level for what makslane had intended for gE, though it'd be a nice feature to add for mobile games.