Hello, while browsing condos I found a hosted condo that was an arcade. This condo had a large amount of Libretro cabinets in it. After taking with the owner, I’ve found that myself and many others are experiencing memory leaks in the Condo (likely from all the Libretro Cabinets) as high as using 40gb of RAM as shown in this screenshot.
Condo owner here, just wanted to clarify that the condo in question was the Highrise condo. Let us know if any further information is needed!
EDIT: A quick update to this post, I’ve tried creating a comparably sized arcade on the another condo (Theater) with similar results. High RAM usage that will start to crash my game after a certain amount of arcade cabinets are placed. This condo has less than 350 total items but probably just under half of those are arcade cabinets.
Hello, since there are a lot of different emulators, could you specify which one you were using? If it ends up being in the core/emulator then that’s outside of our control, but if we know which emulator it is we can see if our own code that “glues” that emulator to Tower is funky. Thanks!
Hey, like Cobalt says, the majority of the games used were Arcade, either MAME or Final Burn Alpha. We had a few sparse other games using NEStopia, SNES 9x, Genesis Plus GX, Gearboy. I believe there were some individual games with Mednafen PSX, Mupen 64 and Yabause additionally.
It should be noted that the high memory usage occurs even when the games are not active. The cabinets just existing in the condo is enough to cause the issue.
Yes, as in they had not been started up yet in the current session, I didnt press “E” to activate any of them, they are idle. Just existing with a rom assigned into the item. The cabinets each have a marquee and idle screen. Some have side art and panels, though not very many. I can’t speak for the automatically grabbed images, but my personally added images were carefully selected with an eye on the file size.
I was curious so I did some quick and dirty memory comparisons, after being logged in for a few minutes in each place I compared my usage. I have 16gb of RAM. These are rounded to the closest value.
Small plaza - 3gb
Full plaza - 5gb
Condo with 2000+ items and no game items - 5gb
Condo with less than 350 items but more than 100 arcade cabinet items - 8gb
When I log into the condo with 100+ game items, it starts out low but gradually climbs to that height, then consistently keeps my system at 85-90% memory usage (with tower + Chrome + Discord etc) The more cabinets I add, it pushes that number up until things reach a breaking point and the game will crash after reaching 100% memory usage no matter what.
EDIT: Well! This was all pertinent information before today’s update. I’m not sure what was done, but I do notice a huge difference in the mem usage at the arcade condo! Everything is much better now!
