Memory Leak/Preformance Issue

[Nekodar]

Sounds very much like AMD driver problems. Might be something that was there since before but is only now being triggered for some reason.
They released new drivers (possibly beta) a day or so ago didn't they? Try with those?

[OranKells]

Its nice to know that this isn't just my computer. I thought maybe the RAM or hard drive was failing. I frequently crash during very busy battles with a lot of effects, in town during prime time, changing areas; basically anything that eats up a lot of memory. Usually then causes a blue screen of death shortly after.

[Volkaru]

This is getting very aggravating. I am also experiencing this issue since 2.3. I'll hit the teleport button. Then all of a sudden my game will drop to 1-2 FPS, become unresponsive; And crash with an 'unexpected error' right there OR will teleport me after a bit, I'll seem fine, then 'unexpected error' crash me shortly after. It's happening every 3-4 hours, sometimes less if I'm teleporting a lot (hunts). Please fix this, as it's really starting to hampen my gameplay experience.
I also urge everyone to file a bug report with your PC specs, etc.

[AurelienRainier]

This thread is a huge relief because this has been driving me NUTS. Just like everyone else, generally in Mor Dhona within a few moments of zoning in my fps will drop to 1-2 fps and either recover for a few seconds and then go back to being bad, or the game will crash with an unknown error.

I have an AMD 7970 GHZ Edition.

I have tried every fix in the book:

- Reinstalling the game
- Updating the graphics drivers (now on the Beta released several days ago)
- Scanning hard drive for errors

Nothing has worked. Benchmarks that push my gaming rig to the max do not show any artifacting or missing models.

What tells me that this is a graphical issue is that models begin to disappear right before the crash is about to happen. For instance, I was in Coerthas and got REALLY confused:

[Ashfyr]

I am also having issues with this. I have a HD 7700 and 16Gb of corsair RAM, but it is not crashing for me, just slowing to a crawl, giving me maybe 5 fps, then I have to force close through the task manager. The memory usage for the game also increases the longer I play, last night reaching 1.5GB after only 10 minutes

[Xellos2099]

I think i can offer some insight to the issue. I am using 7870 extreme versioon and I installed the sapphire Trixx tools. My card normally run in 925MHZ, however, whenever I teleport, durign trh loasing screen the speed will drop to 501mhz and it will go back to 925 after teleport is finish. However, sometime it will not and the game crawl at 501 till it crash or sometime it recover. And with hunt going it, it crash even more often.

[AurelienRainier]

I think i can offer some insight to the issue. I am using 7870 extreme versioon and I installed the sapphire Trixx tools. My card normally run in 925MHZ, however, whenever I teleport, durign trh loasing screen the speed will drop to 501mhz and it will go back to 925 after teleport is finish. However, sometime it will not and the game crawl at 501 till it crash or sometime it recover. And with hunt going it, it crash even more often.

This is interesting because I hear my video card's fans cut down whenever the slowdown happens. I'd imagine if it was struggling to render something, it would work harder so the fans would speed up. But it seems that it's throttling down the performance of the card for whatever reason.

[Xellos2099]

because between teleport it forced 2d speed.

[Nexxa]

Getting this too. Would sure be nice if SE responded.

[AurelienRainier]

All right, I am SICK of no response from SE on this issue. I have just missed my FOURTH A rank today (and missed an S rank this morning) because of this bug. My friend with a 7970 also is getting this.

I get to the hunt, game slows to 2 fps, then crashes out. This isn't fair.

Literally giving Nvidia players the advantage on Hunts, or really anything that involves more than a dozen players.

Edit: would just like to add that I've missed 2 more S ranks and an A rank due to this bug since I posted. Two were in Outer La Noscea.