Loading a lot of textures

[Volker]

Hello,

 

I have to load a lot of textures for my 2d animations.

At the moment they are a few hundred. Every frame as a single .dds file.

They are being preloaded at game start.

Is it better to use for every animation one big file instead of a lot small ones?

I'm thinking about something like vram fragmentation?

 

Do I have to be scared about overstuffing the vram?

[Paul Thomas]

I remember when working with XNA they had all the 2D animations for a single character on a single texture. Simply changing the X position in the draw call to change animation. Probably best to do it that way, not really sure, never compared the two before.