Quote Originally Posted by SadOldGoth
All,
I don't really understand what the big problem is. Yes, there is a memory leak, which is not great.
In XP, start the Task manager, click the Performance tab.
Start RTW, play for a while, I only see the problem after playing 2-3 hours.
Exit RTW, look at the Task manager. You'll see the memory line decreasing, took no longer than 1-2 minutes so far, could be more if more memory is taken up due to the hard drive needing to clear out the virtual memory. At some point all virtual memory is cleared.

Start RTW again, enjoy for the next couple of hours.

If you have been playing for hours on end, take a break anyway. If you actually work with PCs it's recommended to take at least a 5 minute break every hour so your eyes can relax a bit...

SadOldGoth
Considering that it starts slowing down battles fairly early on...and later you get stuck playing a big battle with fairly massive lag, it is a problem. Battles like that are seriously unfun, and they take a lot of time--doubling the pain. I already have plenty of interruptions as it is. I don't need another artificial one, thank you.

Shutdown and start up time to clear is 4-5 minutes when this gets to be a problem. I've checked this multiple times. It is using about 300 MB's (and much of this appears to be on disk) by the time I give up. Doesn't happen much early in a campaign, but gets really bad later. The shut down sequence is a pain, since there are big delays between each action because of the memory leak (Reminds me of install routines, and that is not a good thing.) So I end up babysitting it if I'm going to resume playing. The duration of the onset of serious lag to restart is typically about half an hour. So as a user I get about one half hour of irritation, for every 2-3 hours of play. Gee, thanks.

Somehow I doubt CA really wants to tell customers, "You shouldn't play our game for more than an hour or two. We recommend you go do something else." Once I've shutdown there is a very good chance that I'll be unable to come back.