so, I put music in my game and gave all users the ability to request any song from the catalogue they desire.
this is ROBLOX’s memory usage when I first join the game
and this is the memory usage after a bunch of people made song requests throughout me being in the game
and as expected that causes the game to run slower and in-game sounds to cut off, all due to a bunch of sounds being stagnant in the memory. they are no longer being played or used in any form.
y roblox
because theres a chance that they might be needed later!
Well shit.
I use loads of sounds.
Because Roblox runs on the assumption that if you use a resource you want it cached for future use too. That’s why you’re able to pre-load meshes, textures and sounds.
Random people requesting arbitrary sounds / music continually is pretty much the worst case for such an assumption unfortunately.
Can you really preload sounds?
I’ve tried it, and it has no effect on their loading.
I’m pretty sure a command to clear the sound from the cache would cover the issue, something like "part.Sound:Clear() " Nice and simple, and allows easy control for the developer.
[quote] Can you really preload sounds?
I’ve tried it, and it has no effect on their loading. [/quote]
You can’t use :Preload() on sounds.
You CAN play them at 0 volume for a few seconds (for 2 minute songs that take a while to load all the way) and that effectively preloads them. But then you’re stuck being laggy for a few seconds each song (edit: while they “preload” 2 secs each)