icons reload

Original Message

Name: Hoss78
Date: July 9, 2006 at 06:49:01 Pacific
Subject: icons reload
OS: XP SP2
CPU/Ram: 1.6/1536
Model/Manufacturer: Custom

Comment:

what is it that some games makes all icons reload,when i exit game? example,when i go to 'control panel',all icons will be reloaded.

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Response Number 1

Name: heropsycho2177
Date: July 9, 2006 at 08:29:47 Pacific
Subject: icons reload

Reply: (edit)

Good question.
My guess is the system dumped these from memory when a full screen DX game is invoked. So when they're visible again, they must be reloaded from disk, which takes a second.
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Response Number 2

Name: Hoss78
Date: July 9, 2006 at 09:05:05 Pacific
Subject: icons reload

Reply: (edit)

so it's kind of game memory optimizing?

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Response Number 3

Name: heropsycho2177
Date: July 9, 2006 at 09:29:35 Pacific
Subject: icons reload

Reply: (edit)

The icons were probably cached to hard drive as virtual memory since they weren't being used instead of being in physical memory.
In other words, this is virtual memory or paging doing its job.
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