It is the same. If I load a previous save, it will load. However, as I play, all subsequent saves take longer and longer to complete. If I try to load any of those saves, the game crashes. The only way is to start a new game, but the same problem happens all over again. So basically GC3 is still an unplayable game.
Yes, your first screenshot is exactly the memory behavior when I too load or save my games. Loading a game just balloons until it crashes. Saving a game takes over 10 minutes. In both cases, all 16GB are used. One thing to note is that these saves are a lot smaller. The last good save I had was about 55MB, these ones (much later in the game) are 36MB.
My issues with Saving/Loading is with Single-Player mode. Here are 2 different saves that have the issue. https://www.dropbox.com/s/kxop7w3rzcjozrt/new2.GC3Crusade?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/a1x3hypedmefpas/new3.GC3Crusade?dl=0
I was asked by Sean Drohan to post here after I wrote a bad review about this game, so I am. Here is the current situation: On a normal 6 player map, saving a game takes over 10 minutes and uses up all 16GB of memory (@2400MHz) from my PC. During normal game play, GC3 take about 5-8GB of ram, but doubles when saving and even sometimes pages out to disk. If I try to load a game, same issue, all memory gets used and the game eventually crashes. And yes, I did submit the crash re