Memory Leak/Preformance Issue

[Djarums]

Nothing I do helps get rid of the crashing.... it crashes in Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 7. clean installs, upgrades, new drivers, old drivers.


Why is nothing being done to fix this leak? Why are we stil being charged for a game I can only play 60%. getting kicked due to crashes and being still "logged in"

This is pretty pathetic..

[Raist]

Nothing I do helps get rid of the crashing.... it crashes in Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 7. clean installs, upgrades, new drivers, old drivers.


Why is nothing being done to fix this leak? Why are we stil being charged for a game I can only play 60%. getting kicked due to crashes and being still "logged in"

This is pretty pathetic..

It doesn't appear to be an issue with the game as much as an issue with specific hardware/software environments. More specifically, recent hardware/drivers from AMD. Older cards/drivers do not seem to suffer these issues. For example, I have no such issue with my older Sapphire 5870 Vapor-X nor my Asus GTX670MX--both running in Windows 8, and with older drivers.

Basically, this looks more like an issue with AMD's drivers not properly supporting the older DirectX9 crud that SE is using for this game. It is all run through emulation layers within the Windows API, and the newer cards and their drivers simply are not designed with as much focus and regression testing for the older DirectX API--they are more about DX10.1 or higher first and everything else second. Similar things used to happen all the time with XI as well and their DirectX 8.1/9.0c mixed bag of tricks (well, they probably still run into issues since it's still a hodge-podge design).

It's an underlying issue with proper vendor support for pre-DX10.1. The latest and greatest just typically are prone to having issues with these games because of their reliance on emulation for outdated API's (think Microsoft kicked DX9 to the curb in 2012 or something). We've had such issues for years now, and until they revamp clients to use true DX11 we will likely continue to see such issues.

[Mascis]

Has anyone tried this program called CleanMem?
I'm interested to know if this thing actually works...

[Squa11_Leonhart]

Has anyone tried this program called CleanMem?
I'm interested to know if this thing actually works...

such programs are snake oil, all they do is flush working set to the Page file, they do not free up any memory because they have no power over the applications memory management to do so.