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Re: [MAC] Sims 4 using 52 GB of ram

It's swapping the majority of it.  What is Swap? - Webopida

My system told me it was out of memory and that i needed to shut down some processes.  The swap file must have grown to the maximum tolerable amount by OS X

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  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
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    11 years ago

    @kMaiSmith

    I've never heard this before. Are you using a 3rd party memory controller? If not, do you have loads of apps open? If not then I'd definitely reinstall the OS over the top of your current installation, it would fix any erroneous errors which you seem to be suffering from! That amount of RAM usage just isn't right, even though the game is 64-bit.

  • 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
  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    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.