Playsound and memory allocation

[tsinkala]

Hi,

Each time playsound is called additional memory is alocated to the program. I observe this in task manager. Below is a code snippet. Does anybody know how to get around this memory issue?

dim sound
sound=LoadSound(filename)

while true
'comment: can do any logic here before calling playsound
playsound(sound)

wend

[matthew]

I just tried the AsteroidDemo2 game & noticed that it was consuming about 200 extra bytes of memory every few seconds when a sound was playing. But I don't know whether this is just a basic4gl problem or if it's normal behaviour for most games written in other languages too.

I wouldn't worry about it too much at the moment though as it isn't using up a large amount of memory.

[DJLinux]

The sound of Asterroid "crashed" sometimes here i have 4 sound devices in my PC.
But the FreeSound Plugin works without any problems and the last version has OGG support too.

Joshy

[tsinkala]

Thank you, fsPlaySound(...) seems to solve the memory issue. However, the quality of the sound coming out is not as good as when you use PlaySound(...).