Quake noob

[The Hoff]

high guys im using the darkplace engine but when i go into the console and type in -heapsize xx000 i get "-heapsize" unknown command??? why doesnt it recognise the command?

[ORL]

-heapsize isn't actually a console command. -heapsize is a command line parameter, which you enter when loading darkplaces, which would look something like this:

Darkplaces.exe -heapsize 32768

[The Hoff]

hmmm when i typed what you wrote it says unknown command "darkplaces" or am i doing it wrong

[Canadian*Sniper]

[ORL]

hmmm when i typed what you wrote it says unknown command "darkplaces" or am i doing it wrong

I didn't explain it well, my fault.

Well, what canadian sniper said (or showed), you can open up Darkplaces properties and type in what he did in the target field. This is probably the more common way to do it now-a-days.

I use batch (.bat) files which, in my opinion, are much easier to use. Simply take a .bat file in the Quake folder, like q95.bat, right click and edit, and type in darkplaces.exe -heapsize 32768 (or whichever value you prefer) and save it. Then rename the q95.bat to darkplaces.bat, double click it, and it should load up darkplaces with the new -heapsize value.

Perhaps by default, DP should use a high heapsize amount like 65336? Just a suggestion.

[Canadian*Sniper]

Do you know what heapsize dp uses by default? I thought it was really big or it was irrelevant.

[Baker]

To my knowledge, DarkPlaces does not require -heapsize nor probably even acknowledge it.

LordHavoc told me DarkPlaces allocates it own memory and has no need for memory allocation command line parameters.

/If I recall correctly

[Canadian*Sniper]

To my knowledge, DarkPlaces does not require -heapsize nor probably even acknowledge it.

LordHavoc told me DarkPlaces allocates it own memory and has no need for memory allocation command line parameters.

/If I recall correctly

I second that. I remember LordHavoc mentioning something like this.

[Spirit]

That makes three of us.