Possible memory leak? in SH4
 

The longer I run SH4 the more physical and virtual memory it uses. Not sure if this is the way the game's coded, or because of a memory leak.

One time the game got so choppy, it was almost unplayable. So I saved and exited- took more than 60 seconds to get all desktop icons back and for memory usage to drop to normal.

Reloaded the game and everything ran smooth again.

Since there's the post on bugs for a 1.4 patch, I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this. If so, it may be a bug that needs to be fixed.

If I'm the only one seeing this, don't want to report it as a bug. Gonna load a utility to monitor this if other people are experienceing something similar, as memory leaks can often cause a CTD.

I have seen a few posts on this and it seems to be a very rare occurence at present. I can say I have not experienced it. The only time I get the grinding to a holt is if my antivirus is updating automatically.

I some times have that problem.

I'm having this kind of problem but just not as bad. There's pretty much everytime I start the game a minor stuttering and alt tabbing into desktop and going back into game fixes this. However, during a patrol I have to do this several times

I have encountered similar problems too. Since I got a my new graphics card things have improved but I do get a message after I exit the game saying that virtual memory is low.

have the problem every day with the game
 

I if I play it long enough the memory it eat's up will go all the way to 3 gig's before my PC put's up a warning saying it is running out of memory for all of my programs and by that time my FPS has gone from 60 to start with down to 8 FPS and starts to stutter.

But I think it is more XP related than the game because my Web Brouser does the exact same thing and also causes my PC to slow down.

I experienced this but not with the game really. I had fiddled with setting my own virtual memory. Then the problem occured. Is your virtual memory set to windows controlled? I reset mine to windows controlled and the problem stopped.

Hmmmm, theoretically, the virtual memory usage shouldn't keep climbing. It will normally climb to some peak value, but hold there + or - a certain amount as things change.

Since other people are experiencing this, I'll go ahead and install the memory usage. Interesting too that it will eat up 3 gigs of physical ram. That's usually some issue to do with memory management (hence the term memory leak- game doesn't correctly flush unused data from memory when it's done with it).

I will give it a try and see what comes up.

If anyone else expereiencing problems wants to see what's going on, you'll need to install this utility. The process/system monitor in Task Manager is not sufficient.
Process Explorer: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...sExplorer.mspx

AVG, yes VM is windows controlled. I only set it manually when I have 2 drives installed as that speeds up the VM use (set VM on the drive your windows install is not on). Right now my new system only has one drive.

I have 500 M Vid Ram, 2 Gig Sys Ram and 2500 Megs fixed Virtual cache. I'm careful to keep other processing programs to a minimum and have no virus/spyware programs running at all during the game (the game is not going to download and install malware in the background.) I get no halts or studders at all at any time.

I think the AMD DC chip with its on-board memory manager is an elegant solution and the ASUS M2R32-MVP mainboard with ATI chipset is a perfect match to all the hardware I'm using. I have the CPU overclocked 5%. I could put in a faster CPU and install faster memory and get even better performance. My 3D battle external frame rates drop down to around 20 once in a while, but I'm satisfied with anything above 15 so not in a hurry to spend money right now.
-Pv-

I don't know haven't looked at any memory settings.