Memory leak?

[Fyrestrom]

I fired up Vanguard yesterday for the first time since the patch. It was like night and day. My FPS is up, I was able to turn more eye candy up. And.... I didnt CTD once! Things are getting better! Cheers to Sigil!

[Rithrin]

I did the INI tweak before I ran it after the patch, so I have no idea what to attribute my FPS increase to.. d'oh.

[Herne]

No CTD since the patch but i wondered why the game bacame a bit jerky this afternoon...looked at RAM usage on my handy G15 screen....97%.....

[Nil]

Originally Posted by Herne

No CTD since the patch but i wondered why the game bacame a bit jerky this afternoon...looked at RAM usage on my handy G15 screen....97%.....

Heh. And I've been swimming in CTDs, especially in town, since the patch. It's probably some setting I've jacked with.

[Fyrestrom]

My client still needs to be restarted every couple of hours. Its about the same thing with me the RAM usage goes to 97% and the game starts pausing for 30 seconds at a time. Its getting better, but not quite there yet.

[tehgeek]

Originally Posted by Nil

Heh. And I've been swimming in CTDs, especially in town, since the patch. It's probably some setting I've jacked with.

Sounds like me. I'm not sure I had a CTD before "the patch", had a bunch of CTCS (Crash To Character Select), but I don't think any CTD's since Beta. If you find yourself tinkering and getting fewer please do share.

[Nil]

Originally Posted by tehgeek

If you find yourself tinkering and getting fewer please do share.

I tried leaving the CacheSizeMegs option alone in the sysconfig.ini alone (leaving it at 32), and I haven't had a CTD since. Hopefully that's it, but it'll take more than a half hour of playing before I decide it's fixed.

[Ysharros]

I'm still getting regular CTDs but as I've said elsewhere, I live with it. Much /flushing helps, so I suspect it has as much to do with my crappy card as with the client itself.

Nil, I thought the sysconfig file reset itself every time you run the client anyway? I tried changing the cache size there once or twice but since it didn't stick past the current session, I stopped bothering.

<---- lazy

[Nil]

Originally Posted by Ysharros

Nil, I thought the sysconfig file reset itself every time you run the client anyway? I tried changing the cache size there once or twice but since it didn't stick past the current session, I stopped bothering.

It does, but since it was helping so much, I was doing it every time (I set up a .bat, so it was simply a matter of clicking it before I clicked PLAY.

Now, at 32, it's still running pretty well.

What is your card?

[Ysharros]

*looks shifty and mildly ashamed*

An ATI x1300Pro. We cut corners when hubby and I built new rigs this time last year - we knew we were doing it, but when you have to buy 2 systems at once on our budget you have to cut corners somewhere. We figured we'd wait and see what Vanguard really needed to run - and we're still waiting, mainly because we're broke right now.

That said, Vanguard is perfectly playable for me, even with Mr Pooey card. Sure I CTD a lot, especially if I don't /flush, but I average 15-30FPS in most places (with the various system and ini tweaks one can do) on average-good settings. I'm quite content.