I got the RAM, and I even saw how much it was using in the task manager. And I just skimmed over data leaks in a C++ guide book I got so I thought it was possible.

I've experienced the same problems, other than the designer, mostly because I haven't spend that much time, I'm not really bothering with cosmetics at this point.

Last night I had a CTD in and around turn 280-290.   The stuttering gets pronounced about 100 or so turns before the CTD happens, and you can see the stuttering getting visually worse.  This is brand new circa the last mini patch.

I've got a 10 gig bank of ram, with 8 logical cores, and everything that isn't needed is shut off, and I still experience this problem.

GPU is 2 gig, but nothing to write home about, however, it was working perfectly fine when Beta 2 was released, so I'm inclined to think its a software problem.

My ex-roommate and I typically play multiplayer on the weekends, but last weekend we didn't bother, its too unstable.  The weekend prior, we had 3 crashes in rapid succession, the weekend before that, we had 6 games fail on us over 2 days.

The weekend before that, smooth as silk, reloading, saving, shutting down, relogging, the only thing we couldn't do was re-enter a multiplayer game.  Game ejects were still show-stoppers.

Anyways, the point of this long-winded diatribe is, I agree, and here's some anecdotal stuff that proves nothing.

Here's the thing

The OS knows what it's doing. We are no longer in the days of "WHAT you want MORE MEMORY! Go line up for a few lashes!" The application goes "I would like RAM" and the OS looks at what's available. Assuming you have a semi-decent system not made out from Kinder Suprises, Cracker Jack stickers, and mail in popsicle sticks, you're gonig to have gobs of memory available. The OS will say "well here have all you want!" If the application had to keep begging for every single MB of RAM it would be constantly generating hard faults and making the game suck in performance. So a game 'using up a lot of RAM' is more or less by design of the OS itself.

Now that being said, GalCiv3 uses A LOT of RAM right now. If you're on a 8GB system, you'd better be only running the game. I saw a similar issue though much worse, on Evolve. If I had Firefox running the game constatnly generated hard faults and basically went terribly. If I killed firefox then it was much better for performance. Upgrading to 16GB helped a lot with being able to run my browser (with its 100+ tabs and 100 extensions) running wiht the game.

"we are no longer in the days of more ram"... "upgrade to 16".

right now im saving up for christmas vacation the upgrades come after that

aside from ram im also looking to put in a SSD and upgrade my processor so theres always something else that needs doing

Darca, is your laptop one of those you can drop, take to the desert and other exotic places?

No joke, thought you were a marine.

I have yet to see the OS assign more than 6G of RAM when playing GC3 (2G for OS and a smattering for other apps, including Steam, and somewhere less than 4G for GC3).

If all goes as planned I will be a Army medic in about a year.

Quoting DARCA1213,

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If all goes as planned I will be a Army medic in about a year.

Congrats.   It's a good road to a good career.  Just get in shape, and accept that you'll have to suck it up for 4 yeas, and at the worst you get a second chance in life.

Quoting DARCA1213,

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If all goes as planned I will be a Army medic in about a year.

Ok, the Semper Fi in your profile confused me. So, you will need a laptop you can drop and take to the desert.

Did 20 myself, 3 tours in Vietnam. Wouldn't like being a medic, I prefer to shoot back.