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13 years ago
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Significant Memory leak in 1.50 build?

I basically walked away from a paused game for a few hours, and when I came back the memory consumption of the game process had doubled from the typical neighborhood of 1,900,000 K to 3,900,000 K. I ...
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  • roberta591's avatar
    roberta591
    13 years ago

    What operating system does your computer have? This exact problem is being discussed on other gaming boards so I'm not sure if it is purely a TS3 problem. The problem is not all computers have this problem. IMHO I think it is a memory problem related to a popular chipset(s) and maybe combined with a certain family of cpus and maybe a certain family of video cards. I have a Gigabyte motherboard w/ 970A chisei with a FX 6100 processor and a Nvidia graphics card and I don't have the problem. Many games are written with proven game engines. What I do know is Windows 8 is having problems and rumor is it may be the next Vista. Sales of windows 8 are way below expected and rumors about performance is hurting sales. I like Windows 8 on my tablet but don't know if I want it on a desktop. Is this a motherboard problem (possible)? Is this a operating system problem (possible)? Is this a program problem (possible)? It may be that the game is using code that doesn't work the way it's supposed to. For example the white paper says that if I code an section of code a certain way and bass data to the bios which uses the chipset which uses the memroy management unit which is managed by the operating system, you can see where a problem can arrise if there is a problem with the micro code. Some coders find these issues and rewite the code differently so the problem doesn't happen. The problem is you have to know exactly what the problem is and I don't think anyone has any idea what the problem is. I wish I had a better answer. hth

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roberta591
Hero (Retired)
13 years ago

What operating system does your computer have? This exact problem is being discussed on other gaming boards so I'm not sure if it is purely a TS3 problem. The problem is not all computers have this problem. IMHO I think it is a memory problem related to a popular chipset(s) and maybe combined with a certain family of cpus and maybe a certain family of video cards. I have a Gigabyte motherboard w/ 970A chisei with a FX 6100 processor and a Nvidia graphics card and I don't have the problem. Many games are written with proven game engines. What I do know is Windows 8 is having problems and rumor is it may be the next Vista. Sales of windows 8 are way below expected and rumors about performance is hurting sales. I like Windows 8 on my tablet but don't know if I want it on a desktop. Is this a motherboard problem (possible)? Is this a operating system problem (possible)? Is this a program problem (possible)? It may be that the game is using code that doesn't work the way it's supposed to. For example the white paper says that if I code an section of code a certain way and bass data to the bios which uses the chipset which uses the memroy management unit which is managed by the operating system, you can see where a problem can arrise if there is a problem with the micro code. Some coders find these issues and rewite the code differently so the problem doesn't happen. The problem is you have to know exactly what the problem is and I don't think anyone has any idea what the problem is. I wish I had a better answer. hth

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Interesting!

    I'm on windows 7 64 bit; latest 'important' patches. 

    Intel core i7-3940XM CPU @ 3.00GHz (8CPUs), ~ 3.2GHz

    AMD Radeon HD 7970M graphics dual cards; latest drivers.

    16GB ram

    I don't have any issues at all running other games for 12-14 hours straight. No overheating issues on the cpu or the graphics cards. I run HWMonitor intermittently to keep on top of it. (Last comp went through 3 motherboards in 2 months, faulty HW, so I am extra wary/observant now of things).

    Honestly, your answer is awesome -- it took several hours of the game being paused for the memory consumption to double from normal, and that is definitely "abnormal" game play for me. I'm either playing (and keeping real time track of the lag/server behavior), or say, saving, quitting, and starting fresh. The game has never been sterling at trash management it seems, and I don't mind restarting after 6 hours from a save (or even 3) to keep it running well in general; so that should make sure that the process doesn't creep/thrash independent of what's going on with neighborhood aging.

    So thanks again for the insight.

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