2024-03-16 Celarious' File, Decay Systems, Save Game, Terrain Option, City Light — Hazeron Starship Steam update #1129966

Celarious' Game File Celarious allowed me to download a large saved game file, in excess of 4gB. He was curious about why the file was so large. That file flushed out some bugs. The original file is used more or less like this: 5mB of game data, empires, and species. 4gB of building blueprints, 329 of them. 300mB of spacecraft blueprints, 32 of them. Nice spaceships! 30mB of Universe and its atoms. A big surprise was watching memory usage. As soon as QFile::open is called on the file, 8gB of memory gets consumed. That is without reading any data from the file. The memory does not appear to be released after I close the file. I am continuing to research this feature. Total memory usage only gained 1gB after that, for a final total of 11gB virtual and 8gB resident. Another surprise was the 2,626 sectors, 52,526 solar systems, and 2,383 ringworld arc sections. This led to some improvements ...