Fix The Memory Leak!

[Red Harvest]

ARRRRGGGGGGG!!!

RTW 1.3 is REALLY ticking me off. This memory leak is just awful. Seriously, this makes for some really painfully bad battles. Once the leak hits most of the problem is early in the battle, while the game is hitting the disk for several seconds at a time for several minutes. This is what fire arrrows used to do in previous versions...before I modded them out for archers.

Let's put it this way, the memory leak is making a lot of battles "unfun" excercises. The frequent rebooting to deal with it is a pain, particularly since it takes so long to shut down after playing RTW.

Find the leak(s) and kill it/them.

[Garvanko]

Instead of rebooting, just place your computer on standby. Much quicker, accomplishes the same goals as a full reboot.

I think.

[Puzz3D]

Exiting RTW recovers the memory under WinXP, but it can take a while. I have 512 MB RAM, and I was restarting RTW after every 3 battles to avoid the slowdown. I think this problem would be grounds for demanding a refund.

[professorspatula]

I find I experience the memory leak on the strategy map first, which then affects the battles. If I leave the game on the strategy map for a period of time and return, the game is unplayable. If I leave the game during a battle for the same period of time, or thereabouts, I don't experience the leak. After a while no matter what, the game becomes more and more unplayable though. It's all been said loads of times before though. What a shame a quick fix/patch couldn't have been released to address the issue rather to have to wait for a bigger (possibly further not-fully-tested) patch at a later date.

[Watchman]

Weird, that. I've never had much of a problem with it. I've noticed the tactical battles eventually start slowing down if I play long enough straight (and this means like 6+ hours), but once I quit the game the unsettlingly large number of used memory in the control panel starts dwindling pretty fast...

And mine's not even a remarkably powerful comp.

[A.Saturnus]

I also didn´t experience a problem. But then, I have 1 GB RAM.

[Orda Khan]

The only problem I have ( which is not much of a problem ) is that exiting the game is slow. As in 5 seconds or so. I have 512Mb and have seen none of the battle slow-downs that are reported here. I tested this for hours of play and experienced no problems in game. Maybe there is an explanation

.....Orda

[MulusMariae]

Greetings, all --
For anyone willing/able to spend time testing this... I will submit a unproven/untested "hunch" that the problem might be related to the
game's use of sound. I have seen the problem strike while the game is
completely "inactive" on a machine just left running when I went to bed...
Apparently no problem when I went to bed... no keystrokes overnight...
massive problems with the machine in the morning... task manager showed
over 512M of memory used by the game. What else is happening with no KB input, except switching the sound now and then, and whatever "animation" happens on the strategy map?

As I said... just a hunch, FWIW.

cheers to all...