Memory leak noticed.

**Osbot** · 09-29-2004, 05:13

I JUST had a battle like this.

I was sieging a Parthian town, I had 6 Phalanx Pikes and 6 Archers. I sent units in through the 3 openings I knocked in and just slaughtered everything that attempted to attack my phalanxes forming up. Game ground to a horrible crawl. It got progressively worse untill eventually I think it hit the wall and couldnt get any worse. Could this be a combo of lots of archers + a siege? Perhaps its a result of running the game too long without a restart. I had fought several battles versus egypt earlier in the day with as many or more archers on both sides and it never got that bad.

**Red Harvest** · 09-29-2004, 05:22

Thanks for the clarification. On subsequent battles, does the battle start slowly (indicating the memory leak was not cleaned up by closing the battle with archers?) I've not had much archery work yet, just javs and slingers.

This will be a good one for a bug report if we can get more info.

**Thoros of Myr** · 09-29-2004, 05:34

I'n my case I can't say if it was cuased specificly by archers. With both the battles it happened in, niether side had many archer units and it started happening within 20-30secs of the start before arrows, javs etc were even fired. Additionally, in my current campaign as Pontus I have loads of missle troops and it's never happened during this campaign yet.

**Morindin** · 09-29-2004, 05:37

Running out of disk space? Overheating CPU/Video card?

I had the same problem in LOMAC, it was because it was overheating my P4 too much and the game would progressively get slower and slower and slower.. until crash. Yay for intel :)

**SirGrotius** · 09-29-2004, 05:43

I've experienced the exact opposite problem. During battles, my computer runs fine, almost too fast, actually. However, on the intorductory screen, when there is that crap going on in the background red/black, my computer runs at about 1 frame an hour. it's awful. also, when i click on the senate and get that revolving image of the forum, i get some "lag." isn't that strange. i have a pretty juiced up computer, w/ a lot of ram and my computer plays much more demanding games like clockwork.

**Morindin** · 09-29-2004, 05:46

Originally Posted by SirGrotius

I've experienced the exact opposite problem. During battles, my computer runs fine, almost too fast, actually. However, on the intorductory screen, when there is that crap going on in the background red/black, my computer runs at about 1 frame an hour. it's awful. also, when i click on the senate and get that revolving image of the forum, i get some "lag." isn't that strange. i have a pretty juiced up computer, w/ a lot of ram and my computer plays much more demanding games like clockwork.

You got Windows Media Player 9+ ?

**Thoros of Myr** · 09-29-2004, 05:55

Originally Posted by Morindin

Running out of disk space? Overheating CPU/Video card?

No. 22GB free on HD #2 that has RTW on it and 26GB free on HD#1 (OS) both defraged weekly, spyware scanned and removed daily, AV scan daily.

My computer is very well ventilated, I regularly play games for 3+ hours with no hint of excess heat..

**King Azzole** · 09-29-2004, 06:49

Ahhh im missing sleep trying to keep up with this thread. Im gonna run some experiments and see what I can come up with. I suggest everyone try the same cause im pretty damn sure I got it pinned down on the arrows. But then again it might be one of my detail settings mixed with the arrows giving the leak. I do know this though, there IS a leak no matter what. Once the game hits 2-4 fps no matter what settings you change it still crawls. And also CPU is FLOORED. No its not from overheating etc my comp runs at a cozy 25-30 degrees even during intense battles (I got a thermostat on the front cover of the computer). I also have a decent CPU/Vid card (2400+ and a Geforce4 ti4600).

Guys its not only this that really has me pissed bad. Its the fucking tremendous bugs that makes me feel like im playing a beta of the game. Units dont react right most of the time, town battles are micromanaging nightmares and my archers shoot my guys in the back if I dont tell them specifically where to shoot. Im literally about to uninstall the game till a patch is released. Im glad me and my brother are sharing a CD cause we wont buy another copy until this shit is resolved.

**dlundie** · 09-29-2004, 11:39

Don't get too upset, i remember when Medieval was first released and i had CTD all the time, its frustrating but i am sure the patches will come for Rome.