Seasons is crashing
ZiggyDoodle:
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there is a massive memory leak during seasons play I checked my available Ram prior to firing up the game it said 772 MB available while the game is running its reduced to 159 MB of available Ram
I have two gigs. Cacheman reports about 1.65 MB before I load the game, and then around 500 (or less) once Seasons has been loaded, played a bit, and I alt-tab back to the desktop.
Will load Cacheman on my other system tonight (Win ME), which has the base game, NL, and Pets, to check the memory readings with that setup.
Cons:
It;s weird. Just plain weird. Loaded it this afternoon with CC removed and just hacks and hacked objects in the DL folder. (This should get you a crash, yes?) No crash. Played for 3 1/2 hours, it was zippier in the rotations,played like it did before I put Seasons in, which was zippy and smooth but with 2.5 gig of Custom DL in there. I have not changed my drivers yet.
I've seen posts onTSR where they've played for 5 days and are now getting the "Application has Crashed" messages. But didn't before.
I have no clue what's going on with it. May load it later tonight and find it crashes or it may go ahead and play just fine. I'm playing Roseblossomhills where there is no CC lots unless I add a hacked object. (The Computer, exerciser, Easel and Coffee pot). So I can maybe now assume those are good to go. Maybe...
who knows. Didn't check the memory during this load but went back through all my log files and after Open For Business was installed is when it had crashes with the really low memory.It never crashed in Pets so I have no idea about it. Pets is when I had the most Custom Downloads in it.
Kind of makes you wonder if there was a memory leak in OFB, the patch fixed it, Pets didn't have one or it did and they fixed it in the patch because I put Pets in and the patch in right after install before I started it up.Now maybe Seasons has a memory leak and depending on how much ram you have would depend on how quick it would crash or how long your playing at one sitting?
ZiggyDoodle:
Installed Cacheman on a Win ME Pentium III Dell Dimension 4100 with 512 MB RAM and an ATI Radeon 9200 card. Base game, NL, OFB and Pets on that machine, plus a 545 MB downloads folder. Graphics set to low.
Cacheman reported available RAM of 324 MB at the desktop, reduced to 32 MB in Pleasantview and after opening Bluewater and playing the Tinker family for a few minutes, available RAM was down to 8 MB. Sucky performance.
512 just doesn't do it, unless one is using the experience as a form of punishment.
The HD on my 8400 disappeared and it's at the shop right now, but something was sucking up the 2 gigs on that system before it went down - and I never even got into winter.
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ZiggyDoodle, I agree with you. It's sucking way too much ram in any version of the game. I thought about
putting it on my husband's machine and seeing what it did with a differnt processor and video card.
He's got an Athlon XP2800+ Barton Core 2.1 GZ machine with a Nvidia FX5700 128 meg video card. Older drivers than mine I think. He doesn't do anything to warrant a driver change.Also has a gig of ram on that machine. Have Sims1 on that machine for the Granddaughter to play when she comes over. She's 10.
You have Dell's? Intel ? If so that answers my next question. I was curious if it was an A64 problem with the Sims2. I had seen a post on EA's board by a gal that had an AMDX2 and was having problems. Now any dual core processor (AMD or Intel) shouldn't have any trouble at all running this game.
I started with winter so at least I've seen that and when I played yesterday I got into spring but never have made it into summer or fall.
Just think how much ram you'd need if you were running this on a Vista machine. To run Vista you need 2 gig if you want to do anything at all...with this sucking of memory by the game you'd better have 4 gigs in those machines to play it.
KatEnigma:
I'm running on an AMD X2 3800, and I'm not having any major issues. It IS lagging more than I'd like, but I blame my new AV for that (I'm SOOO about to uninstall the damn thing!!!) The "sweet spot" for TS2 seems to be about 1.5-2 GB RAM. The more CC you have, the more RAM you need. Now, I don't believe Pes when he says you need twice the amount of RAM as CC, but there's no way less than 1 GB of RAM is going to be anywhere near enough if you have a lot of CC, either.
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