Discussion: The new Save/Reload issue

[Trithemius]

I can't imagine that this wasn't noticed by testers. I first suspected it after my first long session...and it was confirmed in my 2nd. Nope, looks like something that CA didn't have time to track down/fix on the first pass. Question is: will they get it on the next pass?

Will there be a "next pass"? There has to be money to pay for the time spent doing it (unless CA folks just feel like doing it for nothing and have the time to spare). I suspect that the people who invest in the games CA makes would rather see their money spent on a new game (which they stand a chance to make more money from) rather than on patches.

[Cid]

"and still shows as "leaking" to boot".

How do you find out whether it's leaking mem??

I've been having all of the above problems with the apparent Nvidia FX incompatability problem thrown in for good measure.

It affects my entire OS too. I have too do a restart after about an hour of playing. Not really even sure what a memory leak is but it's some leak!

[Trithemius]

How do you find out whether it's leaking mem??

I just was curious because my system was still damn slow after I shut down RTW, so I opened program manager (which took ages to open itself) and looked that the processes tab and saw that the RTW-BI process was still going, and was still increasing its memory usage at a startling rate.

I'm not sure what causes the problem, but basically the program just seems to use more and more and more memory until you don't have anything left. It might have something to do with your graphics hardware, but I know next to nothing about how computers do what they do, I mostly stick to playing things on them.

[Red Harvest]

Will there be a "next pass"? There has to be money to pay for the time spent doing it (unless CA folks just feel like doing it for nothing and have the time to spare). I suspect that the people who invest in the games CA makes would rather see their money spent on a new game (which they stand a chance to make more money from) rather than on patches.

Indications are that they will. They are aware of some problems and say they want to address them.

They have little chance of getting me to spend money and time on future TW games is they can't patch this and some other things. I've not bought BI and don't plan to until I see that they have actually got a completed product with RTW.

There are still a lot of folks sitting on the fence about buying the current product (BI). If they lose that audience for this cycle, it is going to be very hard to recapture it for the next--supposedly the next game will be using the same engine.

I want CA to succeed. So here's to the next patch...

(in two weeks...always in two weeks...)

[demon rob]

I want CA to succeed. So here's to the next patch...

Same here, in many regards. There still is nothing like the Total War series. Tried the demo of some others but just didn't like them. Lets hope the next project is for us old fans.

Like you I didn't get BI. Mainly cos of doubts of where the current product is. Was getting it as a present, but they lost their chance with the Australian release delay, and now I've got Civ4 instead. Unfortunately Civ4 seems to be full of fancy gloss that adds nothing to gameplay and stuffs up the interface (and running ability on many machines). They even have signs of a memory leak too!

[Trithemius]

Like you I didn't get BI. Mainly cos of doubts of where the current product is. Was getting it as a present, but they lost their chance with the Australian release delay, and now I've got Civ4 instead. Unfortunately Civ4 seems to be full of fancy gloss that adds nothing to gameplay and stuffs up the interface (and running ability on many machines). They even have signs of a memory leak too!

Weird, I got my BI and I haven't heard anything about my pre-ordered Civ4...
I'm in the ACT, so I find it hard to believe that we would get stuff before the other states.

[Trithemius]

Indications are that they will. They are aware of some problems and say they want to address them.

They have little chance of getting me to spend money and time on future TW games is they can't patch this and some other things. I've not bought BI and don't plan to until I see that they have actually got a completed product with RTW.

There are still a lot of folks sitting on the fence about buying the current product (BI). If they lose that audience for this cycle, it is going to be very hard to recapture it for the next--supposedly the next game will be using the same engine.

I want CA to succeed. So here's to the next patch...

(in two weeks...always in two weeks...)

Well, that is good to hear; this memory thing is a real pain. :)

I bought BI straight away myself, I tend to trust developers to sort of the problems (naive maybe? ) and I like to "vote with my dollar" so that the publishers see that there is money in these kinds of games, and so keep funding them.