Does Civ6 uses Qt QtWebEngineProcess? It eats up to 31GB of memory!

[nexus2004]

I saw three of it running, one taking 30+GB of memory. The other two ate up to 50% CPU.

What's up, Firaxis?

[nexus2004]

This happened after Civilization VI crashes when selecting the Cree for a diplomatic meeting who was mad at my leader as she was ready to declare a golden age war, I submitted the crash report when Civ6 asked me to.

[donald23]

The new launcher uses that process. If the game doesn't close normally, then yes, the process can linger in your memory and that sucks... :-(

[SeriousCCIE]

Your best bet until they figure out how to not leak memory is to make a very large page file for virtual ram. And if you can, stick it on a drive that isn't the boot/root volume nor one that actually has the game on it.

Not everyone has at least 3 physically distinct drives, so it's not a big deal if you can't--just try making the swap file twice your available ram or greater if you can.

I've got about 52GB of swap file space set aside across a number of different drives; it does help a lot, as the OS will try to determine what drive is being the least accessed at the moment and use that volume for the swap space, and check again if another drive is not busy and write/read there, etc.

I am guessing you know how to set that since you checked for the RAM and suspected that was an issue, I'm being sort of redundant since many people believe that swap files aren't needed in today's 1960s space age technology or whatever reasons given for not having or having too small of a file.

Buying more ram is always an option too if your PC and finances support it.

One thing I can't recommend is that Firaxis fixes the issue. We won't fix much of anything waiting for some company to do it as we experience the leaks, so I am sticking to suggesting things you might be able to do to help out while we all wait for that update that leaks less.

[jawsOnt]

3 days in a row now QtWebEngineProcess has brought my computer to its knees overnight. Even though I've quit "slowly" allowing a file save to finish, then quitting to menu, then to desktop. I've ensured that the steam client is closed completely as a process before going to bed. Whatever they've done in the update to their new crap interface it's making me want to uninstall steam completely.

[twinsenstwinsens]

Computer was totally crippled this morning, I've only just bought the R&F dlc, please tell me this isn't a long running issue

[SamBC]

No, just since the new launcher.

A workaround for now might be opening Task Manager while the game is still running and killing any QTWebEngine processes before you go to bed.

[Menzue]

I left my computer on overnight for a download, woke up to my computer almost inoperable. Managed to get task manager open and that thing was eating up 99% of the memory. I thought it was a virus or something until I hit "check source file" and it opens the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Civ 6 folder.
What happened that this started in the middle of the night?

[SamBC]

Originally posted by Menzue:

I left my computer on overnight for a download, woke up to my computer almost inoperable. Managed to get task manager open and that thing was eating up 99% of the memory. I thought it was a virus or something until I hit "check source file" and it opens the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Civ 6 folder.
What happened that this started in the middle of the night?

It will have been left open when the game closed, as sometimes happens, and it was during the night that its memory usage ran away.

[Exemplar]

Originally posted by SamBC:

Originally posted by Menzue:

I left my computer on overnight for a download, woke up to my computer almost inoperable. Managed to get task manager open and that thing was eating up 99% of the memory. I thought it was a virus or something until I hit "check source file" and it opens the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Civ 6 folder.
What happened that this started in the middle of the night?

It will have been left open when the game closed, as sometimes happens, and it was during the night that its memory usage ran away.

Is it actually a product of Origin service somehow triggered when Civ 6 is launched?

[Exemplar]

Been trying to reproduce this for an hour. lol.

edit: Well, now I can reproduce it with nothing else but Origin running. I guess it doesn't have anything to do with Steam at all, it's just adversely affecting Steam aps when they happen to be running because QtWebEngineProcess has some sort of memory leak.

Would be nice if someone else could reproduce this to verify it, though. Feel like I'm talking to myself.