Overly high vram usage?

Hey guys,

My game with around 200 png images that are 70mb in total on my disk consumes over a whopping Gigabyte of video memory…

Is this normal or did I do something wrong? I tried downscaling the images as much as I could but most of them can‘t be smaller than 500-1000px in width. That helped a bit but it is still way too much.

on disk they are compressed. In memory they are uncompressed, ready to show on screen.

do you need all 200 at the same time?

Thank you for your answer! I dont need to display them all at once. In one scene there are always around 70 images, which is not that much in my opinion but I got to try making them even smaller and lets see how that goes…

So if I understand correctly, that is totally normal and there is no other way to make the memory usage smaller apart from making the images smaller.

Please refer to this manual article : https://www.construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/tips-and-guides/memory-usage

Make the memory usage smaller by using/reusing the same sprites.

Have original smaller textures adapted to your game.