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Rolilink
Rolilink

Reputation: 443

Available Memory Size in Visual Studio C++

I am developing a "pyramid" game that uses a Minimax tree that searches for the "best" move .. but my game is freezing.

My deduction is that it's a memory problem but I am using only 124kb of memory. How much memory can I allocate with the new operator? Or, what is the memory limit assigned to my application by default.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 626

Answers (5)

paulsm4
paulsm4

Reputation: 121881

You might also consider looking at possible stack overflow. Especially if your algorithm involves recursion.

Upvotes: 1

Ajay
Ajay

Reputation: 18451

It's probably not you are consuming all of memory, but you are consuming all of CPU! Check the logic of your game program.

Upvotes: 0

Klaim
Klaim

Reputation: 69802

The OS does decide how much memory you'll be able to allocate at each given time, making your question impossible to answer.

I would be you, I would show the faulty code instead of thinking it's the compiler or the environnement that does something wrong. 124kb is nothing on most platforms.

If it's not throwing a bad_alloc, I really doubt your new call will fail. It's certainly not the real problem.

Upvotes: 2

MGZero
MGZero

Reputation: 5982

I don't think a memory problem would cause your game to freeze before it would cause it to crash. You probably have an infinite loop somewhere. If you had a problem with the memory, I would imagine you would get an error message of some sort as opposed to the loop issue where it will just hang.

Upvotes: 0

Bo Persson
Bo Persson

Reputation: 92391

There is no limit by default.

If you allocate smallish objects, you can generally get 1 to 1.5 GB of them on 32-bit Windows.

Upvotes: 0

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