RTW/EB memory leak

[Stelios]

So i have gathered from this forum and the knowlegable fans within it that RTW (and subsequently, EB) has a memory leak problem. I have seen it mentioned in passing before, but i wanted to specifically ask: is EB pretty much guaranteed to crash if it has been running for a long time? And if so, is that due to the memory leak? That's been the case with me (most times right after a big battle concludes), and i've solved most other bugs thanks to the many helpful souls who cruise this forum. So once again, i implore ye helpful fellows to enlighten this foolish lad in his time of need.

[XSamatan]

Upgrading to BI or better ALEX helps a lot, waiting after battles until the music ends too. I would not play EB longer than 4 hours and keep different saves, best in ten year-interval and furthermore every winter turn for the last ten years.

XSamatan

[Stelios]

Upgrading to BI or better ALEX helps a lot, waiting after battles until the music ends too. I would not play EB longer than 4 hours and keep different saves, best in ten year-interval and furthermore every winter turn for the last ten years.

XSamatan

I do wait for the music to end as is, and i save regularly, probably at least every winter or the turn before i think there is going to be a major battle. And i dont believe i will be upgrading to BI or Alex any time soon, but i will take that into consideration. However, i will try to limit the playing to less than four hours. The game gets engrossing, as you know Thanks again for your advice, sir

[XSamatan]

If you posses BI already, you can safely switch to this version (as long as using Ferromancers installer), it is save-game compatible. Reducing the playtime is something I had to learn too...;)

How is your campaign going?

XSamatan

[Stelios]

If you posses BI already, you can safely switch to this version (as long as using Ferromancers installer), it is save-game compatible. Reducing the playtime is something I had to learn too...;)

How is your campaign going?

XSamatan

It goes well, im a little over fifty years into a M/M Romani game (im a wimp, i know, i just really want to beat a campaign of EB for once before i move on to H/M), and i've taken all of Italy, Gaul, and part of Iberia. The game does this odd thing where if i watch the entire RTW vanilla intro video, it crashes at the very end. If i skip the video however, everything is fine. The only other CTD's i've had were once when i attempted to let several newly conquered cities in Gaul rebel, which they did, but i guess all at once caused it to crash. So i kept those. Then just yesterday the game crashed right in the middle of a battle. It was a big battle and i'd been playing for a while, though. Apart from that, i haven't had nearly as many inexplicable crashes as before, thanks largely to you, sir.

[XSamatan]

You can avoid those videos by either adding -nm to your shortcut target line or by editing it with the Trivial Script settings dialog found in your RTW folder.

Thanks for the balloon!!