Happend to me twice in 500+ turn game (and didn't happened before).

About 6 hours straight play and then 2 OOM errors 'in row'.

LoL true, and well said, and normally I'd agree %100 on this...

However:

One of the Devs did state a while ago they were counting "Individual Posts" on here and on other forums to gauge what kinds of things, be they bug fixes or new ideas, that the Elemental Community wants the most. The more OOM posts they count, the higher priority they will put on fixing the OOM errors (which kill large map game-play). I'm still trudging through my epic sized game on "The Real Feage" map that runs into a OOM error every 20-30 turns. I save every 10 turns because I know I'll hit the OOM and have to restart the game and I don't like loosing turns I've already done.

I'm the type of player that I like HUGE EPIC MAPS. Even the "Large" maps are too small for my tastes. In todays age of video game engines that can handle thousands of units on screen at once with Multi Core Computers that have the processing power of a Hundred Computers from 10 years ago, having a stable game engine that can actually complete a whole game without crashing shouldn't be a problem.

I'm starting to get really fed up with not being able to play the game the way it was intended without hitting crashes on my super gaming rig that's got a couple thousand dollars worth of hard-ware in it. Still, I refuse to give up, so I keep on keeping on. Hopefully this will be squashed really soon.

I hoped, innocently, never to get hit in the face with MAF anymore when I stopped playing big maps at civ. But here is the game killer, back again.... And, yeah, I regularly forget to save my games !

Quoting PiersAS,

reply 7

Does eveyone else keep telling themselves that "I  will play up to the next crash" (usually at the beging of the next turn), then restart the game anway?

Yes I'm guilty of doing that also PiersAS and like Mubunu I also forget to save my game often and I like to play on big maps. I like to keep my game true i feel like saving all the time is like cheating lol.

 

 

 

 

 

Yes please Fix the OOM errors!

Not Spam unless ppl are posting about errors they are not getting ie. after the oom errors are truely fixed, then if people continue posting for no reason but to be annoying, then it is spam.  For now these posts serve a purpose that purpose is to let the Devs know what are our pain points. 

Be glad if you are not getting OOM errors, it does not make the threads spam however. 

At first I was saving a lot to avoid the OOM errors, but then I realized that I can turn down the auto-save intervals, I have it set to 3 turns currently, thinking about changing it to 2 turns.  I don't load an old game to fix mistakes ever anyway, feels wrong to me.

Love playing the game i really do, but on the large maps man i start getting nervous, and after awhile sure enough OOM. Then after the first two im more worried about the out of memory then the game. Im sure they will get it squared away. The one that kills me is when something happens that signals a upcoming out of error, like a texture doesnt render, or battle sounds stop working, so the tac battle ends you go hit save then *PING* alt tab out and looky looky Out of Memory, no save for you bitch.

Sad.