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[carmangary]

That is a very old version. I have made some improvements to handle what you are seeing but it hasn't been fixed completely.

In the version you have, when you select a folder, Spaghetti loads all the ILDA files into memory. Only after they are all loaded will they be displayed. And until then, it will appear to hang. It should EVENTUALLY display them and give control back to you. But, it might consume all of your RAM and force you to run off virtual memory (harddrive) and then your performance truly sucks.

In the current version, they are loaded in a background thread so it doesn't hang. You can tell what has loaded by checking to see if an hourglass is in the little box. But, it still loads them all into memory and you will end up with the same problem as above.

The next step is coming and you can see the beginnings of it by the new tab. One tab is for the current directory and the other is for the project. You now have to add an ILDA file to the project before you can drag it onto the timeline. Soon, I will stop loading all the ILDA files in the selected folder and only load the ones that are in the project. The downside to this is that you won't be able to hover over an ILDA file and see it immediately start animating where it left off. It will still animated but if you move off of it and move back it will start from the beginning. I have not finished doing this because it complicates some things that I won't go into.

In the meantime, you can work around this by having smaller numbers of files in the directories. I'm going to go ahead and bump this issue to the top of my list so that it no longer is an issue. Thanks for bringing it up.

Anyway, the current version is 1.8.0.0 b9. You should try it out. There have been a lot of enhancements and bug fixes since the version you have.

[White-Light]

In the version you have, when you select a folder, Spaghetti loads all the ILDA files into memory. Only after they are all loaded will they be displayed. And until then, it will appear to hang. It should EVENTUALLY display them and give control back to you. But, it might consume all of your RAM and force you to run off virtual memory (harddrive) and then your performance truly sucks.

I have plenty of memory - 4GB and all accessible due to Vista 64. I'ev run games that load over 1.5gb into the memory before and don't even see any performance hit.

BTW its not a case of it "hanging" as in waiting - Windows actually intervenes and declares the programme has stopped working within seconds of start up.

This is the diagnostic info from Windows:

Description:
Stopped working
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: spaghetti.exe
Problem Signature 02: 1.5.6.0
Problem Signature 03: 48c08241
Problem Signature 04: System.Windows.Forms
Problem Signature 05: 2.0.0.0
Problem Signature 06: 4889dee7
Problem Signature 07: 1521
Problem Signature 08: 137
Problem Signature 09: System.ComponentModel.Win32
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2057
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[VJ AIWAZ]

i am using 1.8 b9 nd i see the same thing windows closes the program
i think we are trying to load the same dir its the one from ishow on the ftp

[carmangary]

I downloaded at ishow directory. If i select that directory they all load in about 10 seconds.

[carmangary]

I have plenty of memory - 4GB and all accessible due to Vista 64. I'ev run games that load over 1.5gb into the memory before and don't even see any performance hit.

BTW its not a case of it "hanging" as in waiting - Windows actually intervenes and declares the programme has stopped working within seconds of start up.

This is the diagnostic info from Windows:

It may be a wacky file doing it. I recently found that LaserBoy files would crash Spaghetti since they use the wrong format. Try narrowing it down to a file if you can by splitting the directory in half and then into another half, etc. (Binary search). If you can find the file, if it is a file, and send it to me, that would be good.

[VJ AIWAZ]

i just did that and they all work fine it seems but in groups of about 200mb
and it still takes a while to load(not 10 sec) but in the small chunks it all loads and works
so i didnt find any bad files

[carmangary]

That's good to know. Thanks.

[White-Light]

Gary, I think there's a bit of a memory leak going on here and its also failing to release memory.

I split the files between 4 folders (not evenly). By the time I got to the 3rd folder's contents having viewed the 1st 2, I suddenly started getting slow downs on the entire PC. I fired up task manager and I was using 3.95GB of memory and 100% CPU in spikes.

The total of the contents of all 4 folders is only 955mb, far less than the 3.95GB being used. Also when I exited the Spagetti, the memory usuage immediately plummeted to 1.1GB. Confirming that Spagetti had been using 2.85GB of memory on around 600-700mb (1-3 folders only viewed) of files.

[carmangary]

Thanks for the report. Once I change things to how I explained earlier that won't be an issue.

Are you still using 1.5.x or did you go to 1.8.0.0?

[VJ AIWAZ]

i also noticed the same thing
if you go to the next folder it gets slower and then may fail but if you go to 3 or more it will fail

but if you shut down the program inbetween folder change its fine but still slow

the pc i am using is a dell 1720 laptop core2duo 2.2ghz with 2 gigs of ram