Memory Management in 3d Engines

mux · 2004-06-02T09:52:21

I''ve got some questions regarding the memory management in 3d engines. From what I''ve learnt, there are 3 storage spaces (directx): System''s Memory, AGP Bus Memory and GPU Video Memory. I wonder how data is structured and buffered in these different systems... If you load a large object (ie, Level), how do you organize the geometry data? Do you first load it into the System''s Memory, and only afterwards split it into dynamic and static vertex buffers? Or do you directly split the data into static and dynamic vertex buffers during the load process? Some ''data handling pipeline'' would help me