FIX THE MEMORY LEAK ALREADY.

[inhearts]

Let's see, Rockstar. You've released the most anticipated port i've ever seen. You told us you'll do your best, and for the most part you did. For most people it is flawless. However, the memory leak issue is getting serious and a nice big chunk of the people that bought your game are experiencing the problem. I hope you're already on it, and I hope you don't end up like the MKX release on PC, which left players no game time for three days because the download issues made it unplayable. Please, please, please, do something and do it fast, I want to be able to play.

The main issue for people unfamiliar:

A memory leak is when a game gradually starts chewing up more and more RAM until it crashes. After about 40 minutes of gametime once, I checked task manager and found it using up 2,500,000 memory. Within the first minute the game is flawlessly running smooth-as-butter, but after around 30 minutes the stuttering and lags kick in.

It's not this paging ♥♥♥♥, that's been debunked countless times. Monitor RAM usage, stop being blind because it's clear as day that it's a memory leak.

[c0n_art1st.tv]

I second this. I'll play the game relatively smoothly for about an hour or so and then the lag kicks in while driving and it's unbearable. I tried the paging crap and it helped a bit, but it defintely is just a band-aid and not a cure.

[Anchev]

Using msi afterburner here, i don't know what value started my ram, but it's using 6gb and after 10~20 minutes it's about 7gb and doesn't stop going up.

[□]

It's not a port.

[MoNKeZi]

Originally posted by Anchev:

Using msi afterburner here, i don't know what value started my ram, but it's using 6gb and after 10~20 minutes it's about 7gb and doesn't stop going up.

It starts at about 3G for me then over the space of 30m it reaches 8G+

[DocPalmer]

Yeah for real this is the third and most antisaped platform i bought this game on and i cant play because god hates me i guess its rediclus

[Dread Pirate H]

Originally posted by return 0:

It's not a port.

+1

[□]

It appears a bunch of kids heard the term "memory leak" today and are super excited to try to use it. Looking the first few pages now it's the source of all the problems in their minds, lol.

[*.zip]

Originally posted by return 0:

It appears a bunch of kids heard the term "memory leak" today and are super excited to try to use it. Looking the first few pages now it's the source of all the problems in their minds, lol.

I almost think this is true. It happens often in forums. If anyone has 4-6... or even a TOTAL of 8 gb RAM while playing this game, they aren't going to want to turn anything up... most likely, not even half-way in settings. Especially @ 1080p. I dunno if people understand how much tesselation there is in this game, nevermind the sheer size of the world & how this game is improved beyond its next-gen console counterparts... those of which, have better specs than a lot of 'puter users and the game still didn't run super-fast, especially without all the detail we can enable and push.

[inhearts]

Originally posted by *.zip:

Originally posted by return 0:

It appears a bunch of kids heard the term "memory leak" today and are super excited to try to use it. Looking the first few pages now it's the source of all the problems in their minds, lol.

I almost think this is true. It happens often in forums. If anyone has 4-6... or even a TOTAL of 8 gb RAM while playing this game, they aren't going to want to turn anything up... most likely, not even half-way in settings. Especially @ 1080p. I dunno if people understand how much tesselation there is in this game, nevermind the sheer size of the world & how this game is improved beyond its next-gen console counterparts... those of which, have better specs than a lot of 'puter users and the game still didn't run super-fast, especially without all the detail we can enable and push.

Happens on any settings.

[FLASH ASSANOVA]

For me I just play the game and after like an hour it starts getting real choppy and laggy. Restarting it does just fine for me. (Im playing on a laptop btw)

[indamixup]

No memory leak here? Can play for hours no hick ups.

[ImmunityZ]

+1 to OP. Starts at a silky smooth v-synched 60. After about 30-45 minutes the stuttering while driving starts. After about an hour and a half its the point where driving is completely unbareable. At this point I tab out to see that the game is only using about 3 gigs of RAM, but the page file is up to a meaty 8 GB and climbing.

Here's how to check it for yourself (for all the naysayers) - Load into GTA V MP or SP and tab out once you've loaded in . Then, if you're on windows 8 (7 too I believe), open your task manager, click performance tab (click on show more details if you can't find the performance tab), and click Resource Monitor at the bottom.

Once there, click the memory tab. Locate GTAV.exe and make a mental note of the value it says under the "Commit" column for GTAV. If you'd like to know what the commit column signfiies, simply mouse over it and a tooltip will pop up. Play the game actively for about half an hour or so (driving, flying, doing lots of loading), tab out, and look at that commit value again. Chances are it will have DOUBLED if not TRIPLED in its value, and you can actually sit there and watch it tick upwards slowly while alt-tabbed out. That gradual ticking upwards is the process (in this case GTAV.exe) eating away and engorging your system paging file with trash data.

The working set column is the amount of your physical RAM (non-paging file) that the game is actually using at the moment - also interesting to note. Usally doesn't go above 2.5 GB at 1080p max settings - the problem doesn't lie in lack of RAM.

The initial values you'll have in the column will vary based on your in-game settings, as well as the max value you've set for your page file.


We can only hope R* cares enough to track down and address the issue (yet somehow i'm doubtful). This needs all the attention it can get.

[William]

The memory leak is not made up its here,test with normal setting and very high setting it takes the same amount of RAM after playing the same amount of time.Dont you think its stupid that normal graphics take 7gb of ram AND very high settings take 7gb of ram thats a HUGE memory leak

[Shilly]

Originally posted by return 0:

It appears a bunch of kids heard the term "memory leak" today and are super excited to try to use it. Looking the first few pages now it's the source of all the problems in their minds, lol.

I have a pending Rockstar ticket confirming that the frequent crashes and overloading vRAM is indeed a memory leak.

No need to jump into threads that you don't have valuable input for and start calling people "kids". That helps no one.

Originally posted by A. K. Cass:

Let's see, Rockstar. You've released the most anticipated port i've ever seen. You told us you'll do your best, and for the most part you did. For most people it is flawless. However, the memory leak issue is getting serious and a nice big chunk of the people that bought your game are experiencing the problem. I hope you're already on it, and I hope you don't end up like the MKX release on PC, which left players no game time for three days because the download issues made it unplayable. Please, please, please, do something and do it fast, I want to be able to play.

The main issue for people unfamiliar:

A memory leak is when a game gradually starts chewing up more and more RAM until it crashes. After about 40 minutes of gametime once, I checked task manager and found it using up 2,500,000 memory. Within the first minute the game is flawlessly running smooth-as-butter, but after around 30 minutes the stuttering and lags kick in.

It's not this paging ♥♥♥♥, that's been debunked countless times. Monitor RAM usage, stop being blind because it's clear as day that it's a memory leak.

To your point, I have tried all of the "fixes" and "workarounds". Rockstar support sent me "solution" after solution to trying resolve it from my end, with no success. I suppose I can let y'all know if and when I get it resolved. I imagine it will have to be a large scale patch.

[[FuFo] Mortucus]

yea ive caught it a few time eating up my ram seems to happen at random as well

but its a memmory leak for sure