Was that a Power Management System (
PMS) issue?
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Some drives get moody, and unmount if you aren't paying them enough attention. And some games don't allow enough time for.. wake up from sleep, when the drive is sulking.
No, it in my case it was definitely MicroSD related. The class of card was a bit slower than what is typically available today (it was on sale for an awesome price). I should note that I saw this issue with another game though (Lab Rats). Babysitter wasn't on my radar back then.
RenPy is frequently saving and reading stuff to and from the drive where the game is stored. Autosaves are going on (whether you can see them in the interface or not), and new images are regularly being fed into RenPy's image cache from the drive.
RenPy is designed for 32 bit systems, where it is assumed that not a lot of memory is available, so it doesn't take advantage of additional memory if you have say over 4 GB. Hence, it is designed with the 2GB limit in mind, and is why it is accessing the drive so much. I've read a couple of threads on the Lemmasoft forum about the desire for a 64 bit version, but the RenPy team doesn't seem all that interested in doing one, from what I read anyways. If I remember PyTom's words correctly: '2 GB should be more than enough for RenPy'.
I don't think he fully appreciates how image intensive some of the RenPy games have become lately, especially with the number of animations we are now seeing in some games, and note that people are now considering doing 4K versions, but then that's just my opinion.
If I cared, at the time I would have created a ramdrive for RenPy games, but moving my RenPy games to the internal drive solved my issue.
I have 64 GB of memory in my new system, so I could create a decent sized ram drive for 'caching' purposes/to stick my temp internet files on and such (this does help), but I also have a striped raid SSD array on this system so my OS access times are already quite fast. I'm keeping RenPy stuff on the HDD though. While SSD reliability is quite good these days, I still don't like the idea of RenPy wearing out my SSD's prematurely... I'm probably making a mountain out of a molehill though.