Memory Leak

lawlage
lawlage Posts: 0 Arc User
edited June 2009 in Support Desk
So when do you guys plan to patch this? Or are you just gunna ignore it and let it continue to happen like you do with most bugs? It gets really annoying, playing for like 1-2 hours then performance goes to complete shi.t. I switched from a West Coast server to the east coast ones to reduce lag, but now thanks to the memory leak i fu,cking lag all the time.
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  • Maddrox - Harshlands
    Maddrox - Harshlands Posts: 1,140 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    I thought this was fixed.. o.o

    Look into your pc specs maybe upgrade?
  • Mosz - Heavens Tear
    Mosz - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,181 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    it is most definitively not fixed, its very annoying, it has made catshopping for a lot of people very difficult
  • OMGLAZERZ - Heavens Tear
    OMGLAZERZ - Heavens Tear Posts: 2,327 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    Less swearing next time, please. b:angry
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  • Maddrox - Harshlands
    Maddrox - Harshlands Posts: 1,140 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    Wonder why I haven't had any issues with this. b:question

    I'm sure they are working on it... even rich **** p2p games spend months "trying" to fix it unsuccessfully.

    If you know anything about memory leaks, they aren't exactly anything close to easy to fix... If they fix it in 2 months or less, i'm very impressed.b:shocked

    Be patient. It's not bad at all.. you're not crashing every 5-10 minutes. Be happy about that ;D I've seen it that bad, lasted for maaany months..
  • AdvanceZero - Heavens Tear
    AdvanceZero - Heavens Tear Posts: 1,413 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    I think its gotten better. But still not fixed completely. I never had to use the option to optimize before and now i have to every time i enter arch.

    What would be nice is if they put a distance limit on Catshops. So that you would only have so many Catshops in a certain area by volume.....sigh...wishful thinking....
    Retired

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  • epherine
    epherine Posts: 38 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    For those not having issues, setup catshop in West Arch where all the other catshops are, and go afk. See what happens after an hour or so, and check your memory usage, if the game hasn't crashed.

    Yes, it'll probably take a while to fix the leak, although at least people know that PW didn't suffer from this until the patch that added in the genies.

    Best thing that one can do to delay the leak if you have to set up a catshop is to go into windowed mode, and actually close the window by hitting the x in the upper right hand corner. It doesn't stop it completely, but it sure helps.
  • Gandora - Harshlands
    Gandora - Harshlands Posts: 116 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    lawlage wrote: »
    So when do you guys plan to patch this? Or are you just gunna ignore it and let it continue to happen like you do with most bugs? It gets really annoying, playing for like 1-2 hours then performance goes to complete shi.t. I switched from a West Coast server to the east coast ones to reduce lag, but now thanks to the memory leak i fu,cking lag all the time.

    epherine wrote: »
    For those not having issues, setup catshop in West Arch where all the other catshops are, and go afk. See what happens after an hour or so, and check your memory usage, if the game hasn't crashed.

    Yes, it'll probably take a while to fix the leak, although at least people know that PW didn't suffer from this until the patch that added in the genies.

    Best thing that one can do to delay the leak if you have to set up a catshop is to go into windowed mode, and actually close the window by hitting the x in the upper right hand corner. It doesn't stop it completely, but it sure helps.

    Why not just set up a catshop somewhere else? Or not setup a catshop at all. I havent had any problems with this so called memory leak everone speaks of.
  • Maddrox - Harshlands
    Maddrox - Harshlands Posts: 1,140 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    epherine wrote: »
    For those not having issues, setup catshop in West Arch where all the other catshops are, and go afk. See what happens after an hour or so, and check your memory usage, if the game hasn't crashed.

    Yes, it'll probably take a while to fix the leak, although at least people know that PW didn't suffer from this until the patch that added in the genies.

    Best thing that one can do to delay the leak if you have to set up a catshop is to go into windowed mode, and actually close the window by hitting the x in the upper right hand corner. It doesn't stop it completely, but it sure helps.

    I keep somebody on catshop in the crowded areas of west arch almost 24/7 on a spare pc, never have problems.
  • epherine
    epherine Posts: 38 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    No problems? How much ram do you have, what OS are you using, and are you keeping the actual window open? Also, do you have a dual/quad core cpu?

    As for the setting up catshop part, people are used to going to a certain area to buy stuff, if you setup catshop elsewhere, you'll get less business. Plus if you just use the AH, selling like 16+ items each time in stacks is certainly going to add up to a hefty fee.
  • _DarkSeph_ - Sanctuary
    _DarkSeph_ - Sanctuary Posts: 2,294 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    So this is why, if I go afk in arch or set up shop too long, everything lags out like crazy and runs extremely slow? I thought it was a problem with my computer ^^ First time ever since I bought my laptop that I've been getting warning messages for too much memory usage.

    That said, it isn't a really huge issue. The game is still perfectly playable.
  • OMGLAZERZ - Heavens Tear
    OMGLAZERZ - Heavens Tear Posts: 2,327 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    _DarkSeph_ - Sanctuary wrote: »
    So this is why, if I go afk in arch or set up shop too long, everything lags out like crazy and runs extremely slow? I thought it was a problem with my computer ^^ First time ever since I bought my laptop that I've been getting warning messages for too much memory usage.

    That said, it isn't a really huge issue. The game is still perfectly playable.

    Yes, that's why. It might help when setting a cat shop to reduce the Distance and Effect settings to 0.
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  • Maddrox - Harshlands
    Maddrox - Harshlands Posts: 1,140 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    epherine wrote: »
    No problems? How much ram do you have, what OS are you using, and are you keeping the actual window open? Also, do you have a dual/quad core cpu?

    As for the setting up catshop part, people are used to going to a certain area to buy stuff, if you setup catshop elsewhere, you'll get less business. Plus if you just use the AH, selling like 16+ items each time in stacks is certainly going to add up to a hefty fee.

    Yeah I keep it in full screen, here's some of the spec's from what I remember when I built it. I'm at work atm xD

    AMD 2.4ghz dual-core cpu
    ECS Mobo (Cheap)
    4 gigs ocz gaming ram platinum series. Can't remember the timing, it's pretty fast
    Vista 32-bit
    Evga 9800 Gtx+ Graphics card
    Like 500 or 600 watt Thermaltake psu I think.

    I have ethernet connection through a router with ****ty comcast cable, always making me lag >_> through a Cat 5e cord.
  • epherine
    epherine Posts: 38 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    I really wonder why the memory leak occurs for some people, and not others. I still experience a leak when I turn my settings all down to minimum. I use windows xp, have 2 gigs of ram, use a 9800 gt and a core2duo. I also have nothing running in the background besides winamp and minimal processes, and i'm pretty much streamlined as far as drivers and such go, and am virus/spyware free. I'm starting to wonder whether it is OS related, or the amount of ram and timings/brand matters.
  • OMGLAZERZ - Heavens Tear
    OMGLAZERZ - Heavens Tear Posts: 2,327 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    epherine wrote: »
    I really wonder why the memory leak occurs for some people, and not others. I still experience a leak when I turn my settings all down to minimum. I use windows xp, have 2 gigs of ram, use a 9800 gt and a core2duo. I also have nothing running in the background besides winamp and minimal processes, and i'm pretty much streamlined as far as drivers and such go, and am virus/spyware free. I'm starting to wonder whether it is OS related, or the amount of ram and timings/brand matters.

    If you have a lot of memory, then you probably won't notice it a lot.


    If you don't set a cat shop in West Arch, or go there or any other major city then you won't notice it a lot.


    It isn't OS related or brand/timings. It's the amount of RAM the program is using.
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  • Maddrox - Harshlands
    Maddrox - Harshlands Posts: 1,140 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    OMGLAZERZ - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    If you have a lot of memory, then you probably won't notice it a lot.


    If you don't set a cat shop in West Arch, or go there or any other major city then you won't notice it a lot.


    It isn't OS related or brand/timings. It's the amount of RAM the program is using.

    I think there's other factors as well, it helps to make sure you're graphics are all the way down.
  • Drazo - Dreamweaver
    Drazo - Dreamweaver Posts: 2,187 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    Tip: Minimizing the game (return to the desktop) will lower the CPU usage and ease the memory leak or at least help prevent it from crashing over a short period of time. b:victory
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  • OMGLAZERZ - Heavens Tear
    OMGLAZERZ - Heavens Tear Posts: 2,327 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    Maddrox - Harshlands wrote: »
    I think there's other factors as well, it helps to make sure you're graphics are all the way down.

    It's mostly how much RAM the program is running. The other factors are what tend to increase the amount of RAM being used.
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  • Maddrox - Harshlands
    Maddrox - Harshlands Posts: 1,140 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    OMGLAZERZ - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    It's mostly how much RAM the program is running. The other factors are what tend to increase the amount of RAM being used.

    Yeah.. Age of Conan had this problem HUGE.. And there were alot of high end pc's for DirectX 10 version of AoC that played that mmo. Yet, sometimes, they had the issue far worse than somebody with only 1 gig Ram. They must havee had a ton of stuff being ran alot.
  • volst
    volst Posts: 180
    edited June 2009
    OMGLAZERZ - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    Yes, that's why. It might help when setting a cat shop to reduce the Distance and Effect settings to 0.

    It does nothing. Just give it time and it'll get there. It doesn't suddenly jump to 1,000,000K in a second even with max settings. It slowly leaks. b:chuckle
  • OMGLAZERZ - Heavens Tear
    OMGLAZERZ - Heavens Tear Posts: 2,327 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    volst wrote: »
    It does nothing. Just give it time and it'll get there. It doesn't suddenly jump to 1,000,000K in a second even with max settings. It slowly leaks. b:chuckle

    I'll explain what I meant for you since you don't seem to understand simple concepts. b:chuckle


    If you reduce your distance settings it won't load anyone unless they pass with-in your distance settings, and it won't load graphics of terrain that are beyond your distance settings thus reducing the amount of memory required.


    I never said it wouldn't stop the amount of memory being used from increasing over time, I said it would help slow down the increase.
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  • Maddrox - Harshlands
    Maddrox - Harshlands Posts: 1,140 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    OMGLAZERZ - Heavens Tear wrote: »
    I'll explain what I meant for you since you don't seem to understand simple concepts. b:chuckle


    If you reduce your distance settings it won't load anyone unless they pass with-in your distance settings, and it won't load graphics of terrain that are beyond your distance settings thus reducing the amount of memory required.


    I never said it wouldn't stop the amount of memory being used from increasing over time, I said it would help slow down the increase.

    lol Be nice now, not everybody is computer savvy b:thanks

    Although none of this is really all that complicated to understand b:laugh
  • WitchBurner - Sanctuary
    WitchBurner - Sanctuary Posts: 1,394 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    I was selling GA's in SP. No lag, a free show and plenty of people pay good money to get ganked by lvl90's.
    Currently flying internet spaceships around dodixie, moving to amarr soon.

    Send me a mail if you wanna ask/request anything

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  • OMGLAZERZ - Heavens Tear
    OMGLAZERZ - Heavens Tear Posts: 2,327 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    Maddrox - Harshlands wrote: »
    lol Be nice now, not everybody is computer savvy b:thanks

    Although none of this is really all that complicated to understand b:laugh

    I was being nice. b:pleased
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  • Asgenar - Lost City
    Asgenar - Lost City Posts: 127 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    bumpb:angry
  • ghsbryang
    ghsbryang Posts: 10 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    I have tried it on 2 different systems. One XP SP3 and the other is a Vista Home Premium 32 bit. Both systems do the same thing and I think it is getting worse. Now it is happening to me in Sourth arch too. What in the world is running the memory up like that?
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