Memory Leak

[danibw0i]

After 10 minutes of play my 8 GB are maxed out and the game tabs out to desktop for a low memory error msg. I can tab back into the game and continue but it turns slightly into a slideshow with memory maxed out.

[Bilbo Laggins]

Lol, yeah. I just got a low memory error myself.

I left the game minimised on the desktop for about 45 mins on the main menu from a fresh boot. Upon starting a new game, I got an error ding.

I thought it was just another "program not responding" error, as I have been getting almost every time I try to load a map.

Turns out it was windows telling me I'm running out of memory.

Checked task manager: Heroes VII using 4.5GB of ram.

High 5!

Moral of the story: Dont leave the game minimised on the main menu, it has a massive memory leak.

[Bilbo Laggins]

Okay, so it turns out, it has nothing to do with being minimised at the menu.

Upon loading a map, the game will max out all my available memory and then crash - which was 6GB just then.

Funny thing is, the game was absolutely fine for about the first 2 hours - Ever since I got my first "program not responding" I have a massive memory leak issues and can't play the game at all without it crashing to desktop. The game just refuses to load any map at all without cramming my ram full of junk and crashing when it hits the peak.

This is the first time since I have owned a PC, 1999, that a game has acted like this... and I've played over 500 games in that time. Totally weird.

[Drizzt]

same, has memory leak

[The Speaker]

Originally posted by Walrusaurus:

I thought it was just another "program not responding" error, as I have been getting almost every time I try to load a map.

Turns out it was windows telling me I'm running out of memory.

I'm not alone! So that's what's doing it :/ Campaign works fine though for some strange reason.

[Bilbo Laggins]

Originally posted by TheSpeaker:

Originally posted by Walrusaurus:

I thought it was just another "program not responding" error, as I have been getting almost every time I try to load a map.

Turns out it was windows telling me I'm running out of memory.

I'm not alone! So that's what's doing it :/ Campaign works fine though for some strange reason.

For me its the campaign.. I'm going to go try single maps and see if it works, doubt it will though.

[Hrzn]

Can confirm that 16g of ram is not enough to play this game, playing the islands map skirmish it was using over 12g of ram until the game stopped responding.

[Infectd]

Same thing here. I had been playing for about 12 hours with my fiance in HotSeat mode medium map 2v2AI. Once we got into our mid 20's level wise and much of the map uncovered/explored the game started to stutter and lag in spurts. This even persisted when in battles and town. I rebooted my PC and reloaded the game and the save file took 10+mins (We clocked it with a stop watch) to load and it ran like complete crap. I watched my memory cap out at 100%(12GB total system memory) and it was like playing a game with a 30 second delay to anything we did.

As a test, I created a new game and started it just fine. No lag or anything. It would appear something we triggered caused a memory leak to start and now it is stuck in all the saves for that game. Just when we were starting to get into the good stuff too.

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