Knytt Stories - Memory leak? Maybe?

Well.. Look for yourself. I think Drakkan might be the cause.

I say we rise against all Dragons, they are clearly too powerful for Knytt Stories.

Or maybe its the Fairies..

http://sai.lpchip.com/v/ksmemleak.ogv

I believe Drakkan uses a lot of custom content, like tile sets/music/ambiances. The game pre-caches everything which raises the memory load. I think this is normal behaviour.

Yeah its quite severe though, expecially compared to a better level in my opinion. There has to be something thats causing the overload. There isnt much in Frozen Mountain that isnt in Monster and theyre like 150mb in the difference.

If you look at the size of the levels, are they equal too? I bet Drakkan's level is huge in size, where Monster isn't.

Is every single block preloaded? That might explain it.

Is every single block preloaded? That might explain it.

I do know a lot is preloaded. Nifflas explained it was the only way.

All room data is are preloaded, but the tilesets and gradients are loaded when they're needed.

All room data is are preloaded, but the tilesets and gradients are loaded when they're needed.

This I can confirm; all custom content is loaded when needed. If you edit a tileset/background image in the middle of playing a level, your changes will show up when you leave and reenter the room.  Same goes with ambiance and music.  On the other hand, for level data changes to show up, you must start up a new game window.

Are the tilesets and gradients un-loaded when they're no longer needed?  If not, that sounds like a leak to me.

All the stuff you said is covered in the video :p

Yeah, it's a memory leak. Knytt Stories uses an old version of the Animated Picture extension. I detected the leak during the creation of Saira, and contacted the author of the extension who fixed it instantly. I forgot to update Knytt Stories though. I guess it's time for another update soon, I guess it's a good idea to add the proportional full screen mode at the same time which is new to a recent build of MMF2.

This should only be related to the custom objects though. Custom music, tilesets, and gradients shouldn't suffer from this problem unless there's a problem with Multimedia Fusion 2.