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Posted: **Tue May 11, 2021 3:54 pm**

When palying space exploration on linux i noticed i was using a lot of memory even usign the swap and not remembering it hapening on windows.
So i did some testing and now see that linux is using way more memry then windwos 5 - 15x.

Any reason why linux would be using so much more ram then windows?

WINDOWS
modded

loading up menu
501.9 MB
6.6 -> 5.8 GB (total system memory from when in game and after closing game)

loading up a save
2000 MB
7.7 -> 5.4 GB

vanila

loading up menu
296 MB
5.0 -> 4.4 GB

loading up a save
476 MB
5.2 -> 4.4 GB

LINUX UBUNTU
modded

loading up menu
7577 MB (1500% increase)
9.84 -> 2.45

loading up a save
9645 MB (consumes 2GB more memory instead of 1.5GB)
14.9 (mem) 1.71 (swp) -> 1.12 (mem) 1.43 (swp) GB

vanila

loading up menu
3625MB (1200% increase)
5.51 -> 1.95 GB

loading up a save
3915 MB (consumes 290MB more memory instead of 180MB)
6.64 -> 1.97 GB

EXTRA INFO

mods used
FNEI
vechicleSnap
waterfill_v17
aai-industries
aasi-signal-transmision
alien-bioms
creatif-mod
information
jetpack
robot_attrition
space-exploration/graphics/hr-graphics/postprocesing

settings

-- graphics
- not used
full screen
show game simulation
minimize focus
texture streaming
- other
spirit resolution HIGH
color filter NONE
max render threads 4
video memory usage ALL
atlas texture size LARGEST POSSIBLE
texture compresion NONE

setings on windows
texture streaming ON
Use flip presentation model ON (was not a option on linux)
texture compresion HIGH QUALITY

PC
7300hq 16GB ram
1050 (mobile) 4GB vram

Posted: **Wed May 12, 2021 4:47 pm**

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settings
texture compresion NONE
setings on windows
texture compresion HIGH QUALITY

There's other substantial differences between the configs on the systems you're comparing but this … why are you asking about the size difference between a bitmap and a jpeg as if the OS mattered?

Posted: **Wed May 12, 2021 5:53 pm**

Sinse on windows it dint have the NONE option i tought their wasent much of a difrence between HIGH QUALITY and NONE but i guess the difrence is prety big.
Changing it to HIGH QUALITY has fixed this problem for me.

why are you asking about the size difference between a bitmap and a jpeg as if the OS mattered?

I dint know i was comparing a bitmap and a jpeg.
Thank you for your help.

Posted: **Thu May 13, 2021 12:05 am**

on windows it dint have the NONE option

lol. I guess the OS does matter. Here's a nickel, kid.

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