ECS v4 grabbing 8Mb RAM?

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    Wondering why the ECS v4 appears to be grabbing 8Mb of FastRAM for it's VRAM? Seems like a lot more than it will actually ever use considering a 2Mb picasso has only 2Mb and does higher res/more colour modes with that?


    Thanks.

    The framebuffer mode does indeed use fastmem for a shadow-buffer, and while 8MBytes does sound excessive, it might just be a debug setting of the driver, as the amount of memory on Indivision ECS V4 is also 8MBytes. This makes the shadow buffer "always big enough".


    Remember that the framebuffer mode is still in development and currently considered experimental. While the blitter isn't even developed, Thor might be reserving memory that could potentially be used for text-blitting within the framebuffer - just a wild guess.


    So while it makes sense to reserve that amount of memory, it may change in future releases.


    Jens