Memory leak question

Fyron · #1 April 15th, 2007, 03:01 AM

Even if SE5 didn't explicitly clear its memory when it exited, the kernel level process management routines will free up all virtual memory mapped by an application upon termination. Unless you are using some garbage OS like win98, though; with win9x, anything can happen.

BlueTemplar · #2 April 15th, 2007, 07:08 AM

With hard disk space cheap as it is now, I've simply set the swap file to 4096 Mb (max) on my faster disk, while Se5 is installed on the secondary slower disk. Since I only have 512Mb SDRAM, it greatly helps.

Spoo · #3 April 15th, 2007, 11:58 AM

Maybe SE5 is keeping combat replays in RAM?

Demorve · #4 April 15th, 2007, 12:00 PM

I have mine set to 4092 and I use XP professional, but that doesn't explain why the game crashes when the page file hits 1.2gb to 1.5gb on my system.

The only explanation I can come up with is this; SEV stores the previous turn in the page file. When you hit the next turn button SEV goes to virtual memory and brings that information to ram. Since each turn appears to use only 100-150megs in the page file and the game, at least on mine, and uses between 400-500meg of ram, this wouldn't be a problem. However if SEV brings the entire page file allocated to the game into memory it would become a problem.