Memory leak?

[Herne]

If you have a RAM usage monitor you can access while playing, keep an eye on it.....i have noticed, as have several guild members, that your usage slowly creeps up and up until you get a CTD. I am sure this is indicative of memeory not being freed up by the game. If you want to see it accelerated , try a trip to New Tugglywuggles or whatever that damn big city to the south of Tursh is called. Run round the back streets and see your 2 Gig scream, then melt.....

[Calren]

Use /flush more, it helps. Esepecially when you chunk. Could well be a memory leak in the game but there's a huge amount of art assets being loaded at any given time, and a huge amount of geometry. Setting cache size in the sysconfig.ini can help with this also.

[Sigurd]

I've alt-tabbed when the game starts getting 'choppy' after a couple hours of play.

Last night it was at 1,336,9xx bytes. I have 2GB RAM.

Eventually it causes a CTD. I flush when I feel there is a reason to, usually artifacts or black textures. I will try out some weekend day (when I play long time) by doing /flush every 30 mins or so and see if it prevents the inevitable (seemingly) CTD.

Smells like time to do at least Valgrind on it OK... that would prob make it run so slow and require 40gb RAM to test on something this size but still ... hope they find it soon.

[Roo]

It's not really that bad...as in at least you get quite a few hours play. Anyone who played Gothic 3 would be thankful for more then an hour =P

[Nosyd-V]

There is quite a lot of discussion concerning the 'Memory leak' on the tech forums:

http://forums.station.sony.com/vg/po...m?topic_id=317

Seems quite a lot of folks are having these issues, including me.

[Ysharros]

The /flush never prevents it for me, but it does seem to delay the inevitable for much longer than if I don't /flush anytime I chunk or do a serious amount of travelling.

[mac173]

I have got to tell ya, having to uae a command to get the game to run properly is not my idea of good coding. I play for the most part for the immersion into the gaming world. Having to /flush to clear memory is not my idea of immersion.

Sigil, your customers should not have to do your job for you.

FIX THE MEMORY LEAKS!!

[tehgeek]

Originally Posted by mac173

I have got to tell ya, having to uae a command to get the game to run properly is not my idea of good coding. I play for the most part for the immersion into the gaming world. Having to /flush to clear memory is not my idea of immersion.

Sigil, your customers should not have to do your job for you.

FIX THE MEMORY LEAKS!!

I'm sure they are working on it. They have stated several times that game performance is a top concern. The performance (this includes memory leaks) has gotten much better even since beta. Here is a quote stolen from vgplayers ...

- State of the Game
From Ryan Elam, Director of Technology

...

I can promise you, we will continue to optimize the client. You will see frame rates improve over time, and at the same time you’ll be exposed to less and less expensive hardware to run the game. If you are seeing Vanguard in low performance, do yourself a favor and look at the game on a system that runs it in Highest Quality. THAT is where we think people will be in another year, and we want the graphics environment of Vanguard to be your home for many years to come.

[RedChief]

so this would explain why I CTD when I play for a more than a few hours. I was wondering if I was having some type of software issues or what not.

[Aen]

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