Andorra 2D latest, Delphi7, resource (ail) file with 4x 2048x2048x16 PNG

[robert83]

Hello Everyone,

I probably will not use this many animations for a long time but I was just testing , to see how much memory does it takes. And I'm a bit dissapointed , my program eats 50-60MB of memory if I use a resource file (ail) with 4x 2048x2048x16 PNG files ( the ail file itself is only 112K compressed with devilPNG, tried uncompressed as well no difference with memory usage... the file size changes to 16-20MB)

I load the ail file like this :

OnCreate
 
procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
  AdPerCounter := TAdPerformanceCounter.Create;
  AdDraw := TAdDraw.Create(self);
  AdDraw.DllName := 'AndorraDX93D.dll';


if AdDraw.Initialize then
  begin
    Application.OnIdle := Idle;
    AdImageList := TAdImageList.Create(AdDraw);
    AdImageList.LoadFromFile('BackGround.ail');
 
    //create the SpriteEngine
     AdSpriteEngine := TSpriteEngine.Create(nil);
     AdSpriteEngine.Surface := AdDraw;
 
procedure TForm1.FormDestroy(Sender: TObject);
begin
   AdSpriteEngine.Free;
   AdImageList.Free;
   AdPerCounter.Free;
   AdDraw.Free;
end;

Can someone explain to me how do you calculate how much memory does a PNG file takes up when you load it into memory? Is there a "magic" way to decrease my mem usage with so many PNG files or I'm forced to use a lot smaller images ... I've only used this large images because I created quiet a large animation... just got into pixelart and can't stop, wanted to create a menu that goes Bling... for fun...and learn in the process...

Thank you

Rob