Avoid crashes

I got random crashes when playtesting my game,

The game develops on a huge map (3780x2600 px)

My PC is a iCore 860 2,8 gb, 4 gb ddr3, nvidia gtx 650 1gb ddr3 ... win7 64

The game crashes quite often (once every 10-15min.. enough to piss any player off) both on crome and after compiling it for windows, do you think i should rework the map size to avoid it?

Is the map one sprite? Using a sprite that big is never good practice.

Yes it is, so do you suggest splitting it in some parts? how mig each for best results?

Hi —

you need to break up your backgrounds, use TiledBackgrounds and smaller sprites.

Ashley wrote a great blog about game design here

Hope that helps...

Thanks, i didn't know it.. my background was HUGE, a whole bmp image 25mb big.. how silly i am :D