corvustuscelan Posted March 15, 2021 Report Share Posted March 15, 2021 Hi, I can't use "Growth" anymore because I get an empty window instead of the normal one (see attached file). Normally I would simply re-install everything but re-installing Java dos not help. Any ideas? Regards, Tobias Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted March 15, 2021 Report Share Posted March 15, 2021 Please post the contents of the trace.log file from your HD installation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corvustuscelan Posted March 15, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2021 Thanks for the quick response. Here it is ... trace.log Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted March 15, 2021 Report Share Posted March 15, 2021 OK...a couple of things that I'm seeing in there: 1. You're going to want to close some of the characters. HD is loading 26 characters into memory during startup...while not an issue per se, it will tend to bog things down. 2. One of the characters (I believe Gorgosaurus.hdc) appears to have an inordinately large image file associated with it. The image file is causing Java to run out of memory on your system. You'll want to either change that image, unload/close that character, or increase the memory available to Java (you'll be able to do that in File -> Preferences...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corvustuscelan Posted March 15, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2021 Hi Simon, Thanks a lot. I've done all that but, unfortunately, Growth still isn't working. Tonight I'll remove all image files associated with it and see what happens ... Cheers, Tobias Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corvustuscelan Posted March 15, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2021 Hi Simon, it's working! After finagling around with the Preferences for a while, I have re-sized and re-positioned the dialogue box and the problem seems to be gone. Thanks for your help! Tobias Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted March 15, 2021 Report Share Posted March 15, 2021 Glad you got it working! You'll likely still want to look at the size of the image files that you're associating with characters, shrinking them if they're overly large -- throwing more memory at HD will let it load them, but there's rarely a need for that kind of overhead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted March 15, 2021 Report Share Posted March 15, 2021 3 hours ago, Simon said: Glad you got it working! You'll likely still want to look at the size of the image files that you're associating with characters, shrinking them if they're overly large -- throwing more memory at HD will let it load them, but there's rarely a need for that kind of overhead. What is a good rule-of-thumb to use for maximum image file size in HD? 500k? Smaller? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted March 15, 2021 Report Share Posted March 15, 2021 There aren't really any hard and fast rules for that...beyond using something reasonable. Your character likely doesn't need to have a gigapixel image associated with it, so size the image to suit the purpose before adding it to your character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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