Memory Leak since I16?

Normally when I play COH if I look at the process in Task Manager it usually goes up to between 750 - 850 megs of memory usage. But since I16 it climbs and climbs going easily over 1GB and sometimes really cuase my PC to go nuts. I have 2 GB memory, so I dont have to do a lot of disk swapping - but it sometimes really causes slowdowns and even crashed me a few times as the memory usage gets higher and higher.

I'm just wondering if this is a known issue and has anyone been seeing this.

Man, I hope not. It'll take me a long time to see it on a 9GB system, but it's definitely worth watching. When the servers come back up this morning I'll look at the memory usage on my system.

I'm seeing the same thing. My regular memory usage for CoH has gone from 650-800Mbs to 1-1.2Gbs.

I guess this would explain why I have seen so many lock ups and lag issues in the past couple days.

I still run 2GB RAM. I'll take a look tonight but haven't noticed anything other than worse FPS in open zones. Oddly... at least in Port Oakes, it seems my FPS gets pummeled down to 30 whenever I look in the direction of the abandoned laboratory.

As with every patch to the game, make sure yall have defragged.

I don't know why the patcher frags the install directory like it does, but I've gotten into the habit of doing so after every patch regardless of whether anything is freaking out.

I'm seeing it leak to around 1.4GB. I have 4GB of RAM so it's not horrible, but it's definitely annoying as the game start to become unstable very quickly from there.

We'll see....

i16 seems to have bumped coh memory usage from 0.8gb to 1.2gb for me.

I have also noticed this as well. Have to restart game every hour or so as it approaches the 1.2 mark.

I could just stop surfing the web and listening to music...but what fun would that be? :P

Just FYI, the following command will flush unused memory while in game and helps versus leaks:

/unloadgfx

Use it occasionally to drop the RAM usage.

anything that has happened after i16 launch is what happens with stability issues after every issue since i have been here which was just before i10 came out. the game has alway run around 1.2 gig of my 2 gig ram. the only difference is that memory leak became more noticable when the AE came into the game.

Even before issue 16 i've seen CoH gobble up a touch over 1Gb, with 4 it doesn't hurt at all. Game play has been just as it was before as well. No new lag no less frames etc.

Now I know in issue 14-15 ish, there was a bug to where if you went into base edit mode, THAT introduced a memory leak issue and its a known issue, Just don't go modifying the base if you intend to play for a few hours Or did they fix that with i16 ?

I've had some difficulties with this as well, but up until today it has been bearable. But when I logged in my Dark/Stone Brute to go customize his armors, I loaded the new window and chat settings I'd been using onto him, and when I left the Port Oakes arena where I'd last logged him out to make my way to the Facemaker, I was greeted by a slideshow once I got out the door. You see, my current 7-year-old computer is on its last legs. I'm seeing quotes of around 2 to 9 GB of RAM, compared to my pathetic 1 GB. In other words, the increases in memory usage being mentioned are enough to paralyze my rig entirely. Which is one of the reasons why I'm now looking for a new computer. But that's a topic for another thread.

After several hours of play I get regular crashes now. CoX process sits around 1.4 GB at that point. Starts out with 1.0 GB.

System is XP64, RAM is 8 GB.

(I wish CoX was available as 64bit app too and would cache all that stuff in RAM to save load times, upper limit of 4 GB would be ok for me, or just make it an option in settings ;-))

Whenever there's been a memory leak, and playing online for a really long time creates the creeping RAM usage, too; I've found 1.3 Gig of RAM usage to be the tipping point where my system starts becoming unstable and 1.5 Gigs is a sure crash waiting to happen.

Again, using /unloadgfx brings that memory usage down and prevents crashing when there's a leak. Bind it to a key or make a macro out of it.

Since I16 has hit the wifes computer, well it starts off all nice and friendly and after a bit it is a slideshow. Sadly she only has 1.5 gigs of ram.

My computer however is a lot better and I have been keeping an eye on my task manager and have noticed that COH is a lot more hungary then it use to be.

Thanks for the advice on the commands, will have her try them out and see how they work until I can get her a new rig built over the next few days.