Seasons is crashing
KatEnigma:
And now tonight I was watching, and after 2 1/2 hours of play, I steadily went down from 945+MB of free RAM when I first loaded the lot to 520+ ??? I did not see that kind of drop at all last night when I was playing. Maybe the Plant Sims have a memory leak? Tonight was the first night I played one. Once, it did pop back up to 730MB after I'd saved, but other times, saving didn't make a difference.
Odd, just odd.
It's still a memory hog, regardless of leaks, though. ;)
ZiggyDoodle:
Cons, are you using Cacheman? Might help with recovering memory.
http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=products.
Cons:
ZiggyDoodle
Saved your link.I'm on several Hardware BBS's and one of my friends is an expert in memory. Works for OCZ.
I'll post the problem on his BBS. See what he thinks and recommends to maybe corner the problem.
They used to use cacheman but don't know if there is a later and greater proggie out there or not.
katenigma Something with the game declines memory after you play for awhile. I don't play plant sims so I wouldn't think that was it.
witch:
Hmm. The other night I discovered the game lagging badly when trying to go fast speed at night. I'm running an AMD dual core Athlon 64 4400. (2GB RAM). I saw mention of a possible dual core problem in this thread?
Saving didn't help, neither did exiting the game, rebooting and reloading. I had been playing for a week prior to that with no problems. I turned anti-aliasing down to half, turned off shadows, still no lag difference.
How do you test RAM whilst running - just Windows Task Manager or is there a better way of getting a log? Is that what Cacheman does? I know, I'll Google it. ;D
Is it possible to introduce a virus to the game via a mod or object?
Cons:
witch
I saw a post at the Sims2.com by a gal running an Athlon 64x2 that was having a glitch. Like I said a dual core shouldn't have any problem at all.Dual core's are super fast processors. Both AMD and Intel one's. My processor is an A64 but not dual core.
I check to see the ram usage by checking before I load the game in task manager, then ALT-TAb the game when I enter a house and see what task manager says is free and then do the same thing after a couple of hours of play to see if it's changed. Not sure how the other's are doing it, but that's how I've been checking it.
I did use the Ctrl-shift+s once to see what it said but other than the frame rates on the video card flashing
at 20FPS then up to 40FPS then down then up, it really didn't tell me much. I'll have to run it again and see if it will hold still long enough for me to read everything.
One possibility is the video card is needing mega ram to operate. My card is a 256 meg card but my aperature in BIOS is set for another 256 meg of system ram to be available for the video card to use. So it's possible that's what is sucking the ram down after extended play. But I'd be more prone to think a memory leak of some kind because the longer you play the more it declines.
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