Wonderful suggestions.

My game has no levels. Nearly all my sprites are apart of character animations. I removed a signification amount of sprites, which I didn't really need. I went from about 6000 to 3600. Everything is rendering smoothly.

Thank you. I'm going to look into it right now.

I found a great solution for myself!

I just used java.awt.Image (ImageIO.read) and created a class to store every tile information (6000 of them) with a cache expiration time property, Image property, etc. When a file needs to be drawn, it checks if it's loaded, if not, it loads it. Then it updates the cache expire time plus one second, and finally draws. At the end of every scene, I expire unused tiles. My memory use is at 40,000K and my CPU is VERY low too. This works great for me, but I bet it wouldn't work in a lot of other situations.

I'll give that a try. Thank you for your help.

I am recreating an old game that was created in the late 90's (I've received permission to use the game images). The game has about 6000 100x100 images, which are mostly character frames for animation. The game (C++) was able to load the images and keep memory usage for the entire game around 50,000K. I know that the original game stored all the bitmaps in a special MultiBitMap format.

I am willing to change the images' format to any format. I just want to get memory usage down significantly. I tried creating 15 (2048x2048, with transparency)  PNG spritesheets, and then loading them using the Slick 2D game library, however, memory usage went through the roof. I thought about making smaller spritesheets, and loading just the sheets I need for the scene, however, it's possible the a single scene would need all the spritesheets loaded to render the scene. I am even considering the DDS file format..

Any suggestions?


Thank you