Memory Leaks/ Out of Memery may as well be Mana and other game crashes

from Elemental Forums

Well where to begin...

 

I love the idea for this game, It's like MoM on steroids.  BUT do others also experience game crashes?

I'm Running WIN7 all drivers updated and 4 GB system RAM.. It's not my HW or OS, its a stable system and stable OS.  In fact Win7 is likely MSFT's best OS to date and I'm no MSFT fan but I digress. 

I get OUT OF MEMORY game crashes between 200-400 Turns into every game.  Most often I'v be working around it myself by reloading the game and then from the latest autosave game feature... TYVM for that!  But it is annoying to have to suffer so from MEMORY LEAKS!  

 

Developers need to first go through their design and figure out where the MALLOC() and DEALLOC() are performed this is the most common source of memory leaks in source code.  Developers will not properly make Memory ALLOCation requests of the OS and/or DEALLOCate the memory once done playing/using it.  More memory just means there is more time needed before the leak crashes the appilication.  There are other ways but this is basic to all Professional Coders, but I have run into many in my life who simply are not aware, this game may have other memory leaks too but there are tools and analyzers available to make the tough job of finding them easier. 

I'd rather be playing the game than typing this post up...  so the Game crashes have reach a threshold to motivate me to make this post...  Yes I have the latest Game Patches and understand its better than the GOLD RTM version....all I can Say to that is ... GOLD RTM or RC must have been really bad then...

Again Great GAME if ou can just patch the memory leaks!

elemental
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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Yeah theres a memory leak, i have the same system as you and i see it too. But it is not so bad, happens maybe after 2-3 hours of playing, and all i have to do is to click the game icon and reload latest autosave, takes 30 secs tops(make sure you set the auotsave delay to zero, that way you lose no progress)

 

I hope they fix it, but at least for me, it is not critical.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

You guys are enjoying it a lot more than i am at least..I get about 20 minutes of gameplay before i get the out of memory error.  running same specs as the first poster...  I really hope they patch this soon, this is too great of a game to be this buggy.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Same here... except it is ever 2 turns like clock work.  I got to turn 700 something and every third or fourth time I save, or there an autosave, the game dumps.  Sucks so much, because the game is so much fun.

I can stomach 2-3 restarts, then I have to take a break.   O:)   There is DAO and Mass Effect DLC this week, so that should me until the next patch or 1.1.  Or I could start a new game and come back to this one later.....  :D

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

I have the same problem they will fix it!