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kMaiSmith
11 years ago

[MAC] Sims 4 using 52 GB of ram

I've had The Sims 4 running for four straight days and my mac notified me that it was using 52 gigabytes of ram.  I turned the game on Sunday (4 days ago) and have just put my laptop to sleep when no...
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kMaiSmith's avatar
kMaiSmith
11 years ago
My machine is essentially a fresh install. I'm not trying to get support for this, I can just not keep sims 4 running for four days. This needs to be escalated to someone in QA or Development. This is one of the worst memory leaks I've ever seen.

I can run valgrind against the game if that would be useful
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Bluebellflora
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11 years ago

@kMaiSmith

"My machine is essentially a fresh install" - Have you wiped it and reinstalled yourself recently to try and resolve this issue? Memory management is the job of the OS.

"I can just not keep sims 4 running for four days." - Why don't you just quit the game? I don't understand why you're keeping it running for 4 days if you're having this memory issue.

I'm not sure how accurate Valgrind is going to be when it hasn't been updated to support Yosemite yet?

Edit - don't forget that you're using a Mac with integrated graphics too, not one with it's own dedicated VRAM.

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