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Re: Memory Use?

#103
From: hbcs... WildThing
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1995 06:25
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> >1. How much memory can Descent actually use?
> If I'm not mistaken, it's somewhere between 6 and 7 megs.  
> If you have less than this amount, Descent will use virtual memory
> and start paging information to the hard drive.  The amount of space
> needed depends on how short of memory you are.

I'm limited to 4 megs of Ram.  Is that why I have a huge 2 meg .swp file
in my descent directory?  Can I delete this file when not running Descent? 

> No memory managers are necessary to run Descent.  It should neither
> help nor hinder performance.  Unless, of course, loading your memory
> manager puts you under the watermark... then it would hurt.

It may hinder.. you need every byte you can scrape if you deathmatch
people.  Deathmatching is a competition of frame rate as well as playing
ability because the author did nothing to match the speeds. 

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