Memory Leak/Preformance Issue

[Lancil_Ryner]

My game usually crashes after about an hour+ of gameplay. It is guaranteed to crash if I do a dungeon and then try to zone from Mor Dhona to Coerthas. There is something about that connector that crashes my game. Teleporting does the same thing as well. It's just as everyone else has stated. My game will dip in framerate then it may or may not crash right away. I am using a HD 7970. From what I have read, AMD seems to be having the biggest problem with this.

[Defmetal]

Just confirming issue is still ongoing with AMD card and windows 8.1
(so SE doesn't lock thread)

[Squa11_Leonhart]

Yes, one of the cards I tested this with was a GTX 660. Instead of slowing down to 1-2 FPS and crashing, it would instead disconnect the display for up to 30 seconds. After that I noticed a marked performance drop, but no crash. Still pretty bad, though.

no, sorry. this issue is not applicable to Geforce cards at all, anyone with a geforce card experiencing issues is an isolated case and potentially either hardware related or specific to their setup.

I have no such issues with my 680, there is no memory leak, i monitor all the memory usages on my system at all times using process explorer.

With directx9, memory management is handled by the application telling the driver to do certain things (such as flush the gfx commit). It would likely be a bug in the AMD driver more so than the game given there is no problem for the majority of Geforce users.


This thread suggests the amd driver doesn't play well with multithreaded resource loading
http://www.gamedev.net/topic/655882-...-memory-leaks/

[Xellos2099]

I might have find a temporary solution. Check Cashe LOD data only when necessary.

[Brytor]

I can confirm having both of the issues described here and in the linked thread.

Currently after path when in heavy populated areas I will get a FPS drop and almost no response and then game will crash if I do not managed to get logged out.

Previous to this update I would have issues where the game would crash when going into it.

Using 2x AMD R9 290x cards and a i7-4770K , 32GB RAM.

[RaniKsar]

I might have find a temporary solution. Check Cashe LOD data only when necessary.

I can attest that this seems to have an affect. I got a good 5 hours of hunting in when I would normally crash after half an hour. The zone change between MD and Coerthas also does not crash my client anymore. Thanks for the tip. This isn't to say that it is a fix, but probably maybe even just a way to prolong the crash.

Regardless, we shouldn't be crashing even if this feature is turned off.

Update: I've left my client open all day and resumed doing hunts this evening. Total time for the client open has been over 12 hours. No crashes. No stuttering. Definitely seems to be a temporary fix.

[mozzie]

Happened 2-3 per hour during peak hunting hours. AMD graphics card.
It's getting a little infuriating they still haven't done anything about it.

[Squa11_Leonhart]

Probably nothing SE can do.

has anyone tested whether the issue occurs with windowed fullscreen, vs fullscreen?

the cached lod setting isn't really a good workaround because it drops the quality of alot of things even when you're within a sufficient range to see them.

[Postcards]

Best thing to do is try and contact AMD to look in to the problem. I haven't had an issues with my 290x. I already posted a link to this thread hoping that they would look at it and do something about it.

Have any of you tried using Display Driver Uninstaller then reinstalling the drivers?

[Xellos2099]

Probably nothing SE can do.

has anyone tested whether the issue occurs with windowed fullscreen, vs fullscreen?

the cached lod setting isn't really a good workaround because it drops the quality of alot of things even when you're within a sufficient range to see them.

Not the ebst i know but it stop crashign for now