Frog,

I see one thing in this thread you keep asking for , but alas I think that is the problem. I run 32 bit proffesion xp at home with this game and I crash everytime I play. The problem is, no matter which way I configuer the game (no sounds, windows mode or not etc etc) anytime I have these crashes it hard crashes the computer. As some put it , I found to make the game playable to a point, if I save manually (auto save off) and then end the game and restart it, I can continue to play, However the memory never dumps out. Funny thing is  , you can look at your memory usage and it shows all free (other then the basic os stuff running ) after shutting the game down, yet if you restart the game without a reboot the game loads instantly with barly any hard drive access and it still shows the basic usuage of memory as it did if you shut it down.

1. turning off auto allowed me to actually play a longer game ,with it on it crashes sooner but in anycase I can never finish a game.

2. the game freaks out allot... one of the biggest issues I have seen sense last patch and never seen till now is the quest items after going level 2 and above in questing work or don't . I qualify for these and two might be right next to each other , one can be done the other doesn't rejister. Even thou it "shows" it with a graphic and a mouse over pop up, you walk on it and no message even thou I qualify. This is ALLOT now.

3. The dissapearing units- all these errors happen after about turn 50 and more.. it is definitly a memory leak and funny thing is as you hare having a hard time figuring it out, I am having hard time as the user figuring out where the issues start. 

 Looking back at what I wrote and think more on it seems questing is the issue here as I am a huge quest person when I don't quest I can play the game longer.

-Chaintm

Nah, I've got an intel and I still get them. Could be quad core though, I wonder if adjusting the affinity might help.

How is the hunt going for the cause of the memory leaks, Frogboy?  Do you think you will be able to fix it in time for the big final version/release?  It is a game-breaking bug (and would probably seriously affect reviews) but I am 100% sure you already know that. 

Best regards,
Steven.

Yeah they're probably busy, but an update on this would be cool if there's anything else we could be doing for them on this issue.

I'm wondering if it exists for a lot of people, but is just not the same speed. For example some people here are able to crash after 10-20 turns. I don't get the OOM thing until I play for about 200 turns straight. The game also gets noticeably slower around ~150 turns. I didn't even think it was affecting me until the game started slowing down, then before I knew it I got an OOM error.

I have noticed that sometimes elemental will not disappear from the taskmanager after closing, and that counts crash or regular exit.

It is also very hard or possibly very memory consuming to quit an ongoing game to main menu, and trying to start a new game without exiting to desktop/clearing taskmanager in between.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9549473/Elemental0_98-2010-08-03T17-23-23-484.zip

decided to play a game in my i7 win7 64bit box with dual screens & taskmanager on the second screen

loaded a save, when finished loading & displaying game ram was approx 680mb used but as there was 3 shrines in view and the ram was continuesly increasing without doing ANYTHING no end turn, nothing the RAM useage was increasing rapidly ie within 2 minutes it had passed 850mb used, I then stared to zoom out to clothmap slowly, it was NOT until I got to clothmap that the ram increase stopped. all of this in the ONE turn.

the above suggests to me that the ram leak MIGHT be related to the sparkly effects and fountain effects.

harpo

Out of memory error, occured after playing continously for approximately 100 turns. In the turns up to the crash the game seemed to become slowed/laggy

debug.err: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5227545/debug.err

DxDiag: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5227545/DxDiag%2064bit.txt

Sounds like they fixed it, according to the latest journal by Frogboy:

"And of course bug fixes galore, especially on memory (this got fixed in beta 5, I was quite concerned on this one, but thanks to users helping us, we were able to track this down to our effects system not deallocating properly and on certain newer ATI cards on 64-bit windows it could lose 100 megabytes per turn)."

So hopefully that marks the end of that nasty bug.

not really since my system runs neither.  man, this is frustrating.  We shall see.

I have a save game on my i7 win7 64bit ati5850 system that I load the game from the autosave,

scroll out to see the island,

then go into the shop from janusk in my capital,

buy the best armour and weapon for him,

it out of memory errors out of the shop ON THE FIRST TURN AFTER LOADING with the game set to cloth map mode, and it does not create the zip, BUT does create the dmp which I then rared,

added the debug.err, save game, map, unit folders and the dxdiags.

also have tried turning off the music in the audio settings and have had a significant decrease in the ram increase, so there might be  memory leak in the music code

if there is any further info/files needed let me know

harpo