Memory leak?
jolrei:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 September 20, 16:47:59
Last night, I clicked on the shortcut to Sims2EP6.exe and immediately got the message that the program was attempting to dial out. So the bypass isn't stopping everything. Tell firewall to smack it down.
I suppose one of the reasons my game isn't having some of these problems is that I'm on dial-up and disable all connections before playing, including all processes that run the modem. There is no way for the game to phone home.
mitchellcjs:
According to my taskmanager, BV Sims2 starts at using 13 percent of my 700-something ram, 3% after loading completely, 48% while loading lots, and during normal lot play, 3% again(normal being generally smooth gameplay). After 5 hours of playing, BV Sims2 goes to 93% while loading lots, and 48% during normal gameplay (normal in this instance being very slow, with fits and starts). Crash happens around 6 to 6 1/2 hours of continuous play. Suspicions of a memory leak may not be unfounded. I am now limiting gameplay to a maximum of 2 hours per itineration of BV. I hope Maxis makes a patch that un-borks BV as much as possible SOON.
Mitchellcjs
lemonfresh:
Quote from: mitchellcjs on 2007 September 20, 17:12:56
According to my taskmanager, BV Sims2 starts at using 13 percent of my 700-something ram, 3% after loading completely, 48% while loading lots, and during normal lot play, 3% again(normal being generally smooth gameplay). After 5 hours of playing, BV Sims2 goes to 93% while loading lots, and 48% during normal gameplay (normal in this instance being very slow, with fits and starts). Crash happens around 6 to 6 1/2 hours of continuous play. Suspicions of a memory leak may not be unfounded. I am now limiting gameplay to a maximum of 2 hours per itineration of BV. I hope Maxis makes a patch that un-borks BV as much as possible SOON.
Mitchellcjs
Is this with or without CC? With or without hacks (Awesome or Not)? I don't think you even have to be "playing" per se, for this to occur. The first thing I did when testing out BV was to load Veronaville, Monty and remodel the suck EAxis had created. I started getting odd bouts of lag and random blue screen in the process of replacing light fixtures, furniture, walls and floors. It didn't make a difference if all the visual options were turned up high or all the way down. I hadn't even "played" the family or even selected a vacation 'hood yet. This was with CC and Awesomeness.
KellyQ:
Quote from: jolrei on 2007 September 20, 17:02:25
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 September 20, 16:47:59
Last night, I clicked on the shortcut to Sims2EP6.exe and immediately got the message that the program was attempting to dial out. So the bypass isn't stopping everything. Tell firewall to smack it down.
I suppose one of the reasons my game isn't having some of these problems is that I'm on dial-up and disable all connections before playing, including all processes that run the modem. There is no way for the game to phone home.
I use the shortcut as well to bypass the launcher and disable my DSL connection, it still freezes while loading neighborhoods and has little moments of lag that as I said, I assumed meant the game was trying to phone home. Oddly enough I had installed Zone Alarm to throw up a firewall to stop it but after I had it installed, TS2 wouldn't load at all so I had to remove it in order to play the game.
Deviancy:
The memory leak varies from time to time. I've been bypassing the launcher since day one, it doesn't help a whole hell of a lot. Sometimes it can go hours without the dark blue screen and then the crash.. sometimes it happens after 30 minutes. A few things that really include lowering the resolution.. using 1024x768 since bv came out.. used to use 1280x1024.. setting shadows to medium.. lowering audio quality (in game) to low and playing on lots with fewer sims/objects. One sim has real estate on one of the vacation lots, if I only send one sim to that lot.. it's totally lag free for a loong time. If I go to a lot where sims keep piling up.. trouble. I'm using very few hacks. I'm using seethem 2.. the anti spawn hack and I believe perfect plants. That's it though as far as hacks.. the rest is just meshes.
I'm also using the beta drivers from nvidia.. it helped quite a bit in regards to the gpu cutting the signal off to the monitor. Same damn issue Seasons had until either their patch fixed it or the July nvidia drivers did.. hard to say.
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