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Map with 20 million tiles makes game run out of memory, how do I avoid it?

While loading extra huge maps, the loading method throws out of memory exception where a new instance of map tile is created. I'd like to have whole map processed at least on server app (and on client ...
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How powerful is modern hardware for complex, intensive 2D graphics?

I am embarking on a massive (image quality, file size, high frame count) project. I am still working on the basic engine, but have a big question that I would like answered before I begin testing. (It ...
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opengl memory issue - quite strange

I have heard that textures consumes lot of memory but I am surprised how much.... I have 7 textures 1024 16 bit each. And while I will run my app it consumes 57MB of memory. I think that this is "a ...