com_hunkmegs revisited.

(hummer) #1

Okay, so a problem I thought I had fixed hadn’t been.

Essentially, I’m getting the error:

hunk_alloc failed on 262144

This happenens on a default set up, when com_hunkmegs is set to 56.

So, Rain was nice enough to point out that the com_hunkused was around 61-62. So, I figure, shed a few pounds off the bsp, and I should be good to go.

I spent the better part of the the last few nights getting the BSP size down, doing some optimizations here and there (removing / chaging textures, remaking / removing some models, clipping manually rather than auto_clipping, etc.) , I got the hunk_comused down to 54. So, I thought that since 54 (com_hunkused) is less than 56 (com_hunkmegs) I should be good to go.

However, I’m still getting the hunc_alloc failed error. In fact, unless I set com_hunkmegs to 64 or greater, ET crashes out. I thought maybe hunkmegs had to be set a certain value higher than what is needed, but fuel dump uses about 49 megs, which less of a difference (56-49 = 7 megs to run) than my situation (64-54 = 10 megs to run).

Does ET temporarily allocate some memory not accounted for? Something else?

Also, here is the lastest console dump from a working compile… maybe someone will see something I don’t:

http://www.hummerdesign.com/misc/etconsole.txt

I’m open to suggestions… I’d really like to think this is something that can be fixed without having to tell players to increase com_hunkmegs.

(MuffinMan) #2

i think everything counts into that limit, at our map we removed some thousend brushes to get below the limit again, mabe you have some custom textures that are really big and could be made smaller?

(hummer) #3

Meh… I’ve gotten the BSP size down pretty low for this map… 19 megs, and still same error. So, I’m going to just hope that players increase their com_hunkmegs settings, and tell them in a read me file.

Also, I planned on splitting the map into a 2-3 map campaign… but I think now that task is higher on my priority list :slight_smile: