TF2 always crashing after 2-3 map loading cycles?

[D.Cent]

I play TF2 at highest settings possible and the game runs great (NVIDIA GeForce 460 GTX). The only problem I have is that the game crashes after 2 or 3 map loading cycles (most of the time while loading a new map). If I look into nvidia-settings I can see that the video RAM is almost completely used, like 970 MB out of 1024 MB, so I think it might be some memory leak that causes the crashes? I'll append some console output tomorrow, but does anyone experience the same problem?

[Toquita]

These TF2 problems (and now L4D2) come clearly from Valve.
Either frames-per-second drops, crashes when ALT+TAB, freezing, memory dumps.

Hope they fix them.

[Swell Subset]

I have run into the same problem on a Sandy bridge machine with AMD 6850. After few minutes of TF2 I have seen 12GB of memory being used! Then it lags, obviously :-(

[Toquita]

Messaggio originale di Swell Subset:

I have run into the same problem on a Sandy bridge machine with AMD 6850. After few minutes of TF2 I have seen 12GB of memory being used! Then it lags, obviously :-(

Then your fps drops, right?

Can you post your full system specs + distro?
And if you modified you BIOS please post it too (overclock/overvoltage/AMD Cool 'n Quiet etc)

[Swell Subset]

Yes fps drops and I can't free the memory that was allocated either.
I am on Ubuntu 13.10 with kernel 3.12.rc5. AMD Proprietary 13.11 drivers.
I haven't overclocked or any of that jazz. This might just be catalyst drivers being really bad. I will try a more stable version of catalyst and see if that changes.

[Toquita]

Go to your BIOS and search for "AMD Cool and quiet". See if it's enabled or not.

[Dusk of Oolacile]

Messaggio originale di Arch Linux - Junior s2 Camila:

Go to your BIOS and search for "AMD Cool and quiet". See if it's enabled or not.

C&Q is a feture that drops the CPU multiplier to 4x if the CPU is idle. It has nothing to do with memory usage. Also it won't (shouldn't) drop during gaming.

[Swell Subset]

Messaggio originale di Arch Linux - Junior s2 Camila:

Go to your BIOS and search for "AMD Cool and quiet". See if it's enabled or not.

LOLCAT is right, I have an intel processor so I have to deal with Intel's CnQ counterpart SpeedStep.
I finally managed to do some testing. It seems the fglrx latest beta drivers has a major regression. Although the fps during gameplay with the latest beta version is excellent, memory leak makes it fairly unusable. I reverted to an earlier version of the beta. There is no leak in this version, but performance loss is notable when compared to the latest beta drivers.
I guess I will have to stick to poor drivers for the time being.

Sorry OP to have taken over your thread. I don't have access to GTX460, but it might be worthwhile if you could try another version of the drivers you are using.

[Toquita]

I also noticed that the legacy drivers for my card work better.

[Swell Subset]

It seems like the drivers released yesterday fixed the memory bug!

[whetzell]

Could this be an issue on an intel mac?