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Memory leak after playing for a while

BrianshoBriansho Member UncommonPosts: 3,586
in Tabula Rasa

Anyone else experiencing a nasty memory leak after playing for a while? I noticed people in game talking about it but there doesn't seem to be a fix for it. I play for about 30 minutes and then it locks up and crashes my video driver, then a blue screen and reboot.

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  • GruntyGrunty Member EpicPosts: 8,657

    Nope.  And I was running on a P III 800 CPU with 512MB and a ATI 9600 video card.

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  • DetholisDetholis Member Posts: 2

    I can't say i've had any problems with that either.

  • LinnaLinna Member Posts: 387

    Originally posted by Briansho


    Anyone else experiencing a nasty memory leak after playing for a while? I noticed people in game talking about it but there doesn't seem to be a fix for it. I play for about 30 minutes and then it locks up and crashes my video driver, then a blue screen and reboot.
    Has been around since closed beta. Every once in a while they plugged one contributant, but the main leak is still there. Most people can do a workaround by logging completely out and then back in from time to time.  Always do this after running an instance, you tend to crash shortly after leaving one. The problem gets more noticeable in the higher level zones.

    If you want to monitor your memory use to predict when to take measures: press F4 to track memory percentage used.

    Linna

  • LoboMauLoboMau Member UncommonPosts: 395

    What you need my friend is a new PC.

  • LinnaLinna Member Posts: 387

    Originally posted by LoboMau


    What you need my friend is a new PC.
    Memory leaks are caused by SOFTWARE, not hardware. What happens is that old information is not cleared from memory after it has become redundant. This can be graphics information for an area you are long since past, or statistics as to who attacked you, for what value, and what the impact was, or any number of other things. In other words: it is a client side BUG in the GAME.

    The only hardware thing you can do is up your memory to 2 GB (Windows doesn't really do much with anything over that) so it takes longer before this bug interferes with your play by lagging you out or crashing you.

    I tested TR on a dual core Intel pentium 4, 3.34 GHz CPUs, 2 GB RAM, and the memory leak was decidedly there, and DID occasionally crash me.

    Linna

  • Experimemt13Experimemt13 Member Posts: 188

    I haven't seen any problems myself.

    It's odd that some people do and others don't.

  • ShoalShoal Member Posts: 1,156

    Not odd at all that some see the leak and others do not.  The leak is likely to be dependent on your settings that you are playing TR at.   Different paths through the software and/or different usages of library calls depending on what you have setup.

  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,087

    Originally posted by Experimemt13


    I haven't seen any problems myself.
    It's odd that some people do and others don't.
      Memory leak may be specific to one particular video card or line of cards.....

     

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  • LinnaLinna Member Posts: 387

    Originally posted by Kyleran


     
    Originally posted by Experimemt13


    I haven't seen any problems myself.
    It's odd that some people do and others don't.
      Memory leak may be specific to one particular video card or line of cards.....

     

     


    Less likely that this is the case here, as I switched from an ATI X850 to a NVidia Geforce 8600, and still saw the memory usage increase while playing. From the little that was in the patch notes ("solved SOME memory leaks", patch dd 10/18), it would appear there are multiple contributors to the leak problem.

    Linna

  • geldonyetichgeldonyetich Member Posts: 1,340

    I don't know what to tell you.  I play this game for like 6 hours straight at a time and it never crashed on me nor exhibited slowdown.  Maybe you need to patch it up to a current build, or maybe the memory leak is caused by some external application.

  • BrianshoBriansho Member UncommonPosts: 3,586

    I think its my Nvidia Vista 32bit graphics drivers + a bug in the game. All other games work fine and don't lock up.

    Don't be terrorized! You're more likely to die of a car accident, drowning, fire, or murder! More people die every year from prescription drugs than terrorism LOL!

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