Hello. Since this topic bumped up, I decided to reply. the last attached 'program' from ripsaw8080 really works. A month passed, computer has not been powered off - still no problem at all, no single memory leak or smth like that 😀 Thank you very much ripsaw8080! You saved my life! Jaroslav

Hello what about? c:\dosbox\dosbox.exe -c "cycles 9010" -c "mount c c:\games" -c c: -c "cd dgames\bstone" -c "bs_aog.exe powerball radar"

Well, it seems to me that the ~1MB of initial increase and tiny oscillation at the top is a bit nicer than the several hundred megabytes of oscillation with mass resetting of the search slots you'd normally get. The general idea might be a useful improvement for DOSBox as a patch; where the search …

Hello again, just wanted to leave a note, that today nobody can let me in to test this solution.. so these tests must be left for tomorrow 🙁 And yes, the memory consumption is jumping from 48.868 MB to 48.528MB and so on. I'll be back with the results tomorrow I hope Jaroslav

Sorry, didn't notice the list problem. I guess the app needs the DTA filled even for individual file searches. I had an idea for a safer approach that calls FindNext after FindFirst for individual files (not wildcard searches). DOSBox closes the search slot and releases the memory when a search …

In order to stop (not just reduce) the memory consumption, I made a small TSR program that works like this: if the filespec being sought contains any wildcards, the search is passed on to DOSBox; but if it's an individual filename the TSR gets its attributes and uses success or failure to set the …

If it's some kind of drive cache problem, would running the program from a hard drive image instead of a mounted directory be a solution? Yes, the directory caching is not in effect for imgmounted drives. Jorpho and wd, thanks for your suggestions! maybe I could then somehow make an .iso from my …

- reimplement drive access without a drive cache - add lazy-style resolution switching - check regular runs with standard heap tracking tools (valgrind, purify etc.) thanks for suggestions, but first two suggestions sound to difficult for me... I will continue trying different dosbox configs etc …

so it's something to do with recompilation etc...? Recompiling without changing something is pretty useless. But yeah i can make an extensive list of things that you *may* fix in order to get rid of some possible memory leaks. Hello wd, I would be very thankful if you could make that list, when you …

wd wrote: Neither is user-configurable. so it's something to do with recompilation etc...? maybe you have some examples or something like that? I'm ready to play with it.. since I need this software to run badly 🙁 thank you for any ideas! cheers, Jaroslav

May be the directory cache going crazy due to many open searches, or some playing with vga registers that change resolution but are not visible. Hello again :) 'directory cache' - I've searched a google about it, is it the: CTRL-F4 'Swap mounted disk-image (Only used with imgmount). Update …

A shot in the dark: Tried core=normal? Does the program switch the screen resolution frequently? Hello just tried your suggestion, but this won't help.. RAM usage goes from ~45 to 100mb in like 5 minutes... (I have also tried your's, MegaBuild v.5 - but same results) I have also tried all the types …

Hello everyone, I have used dosbox for so many times, but firstly I met the problem :( I have an old program, called SIMS II, it's a tool for security, it launches fine and works fine under DOSBOX, but I have problem with RAM. When I start DOSBOX, it eats ~45MB of ram. When I star a program SIMS, it …