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Mellowe
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Memory Leak?

September 4, 2008 7:57:15 PM from Demigod ForumsDemigod Forums

So, the game seems to shoot up in memory use if alt-tabbed multiple times. While initial memory use hovers around 500 MB, if alt-tabbing while playing, that number can surpass 800 MB. Is this a known issue? Most games may increase a bit in their memory footprint when repeatedly minimized, but certainly not by 60%.

 

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Reply #1 September 4, 2008 9:04:03 PM
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So, the game seems to shoot up in memory use if alt-tabbed multiple times. While initial memory use hovers around 500 MB, if alt-tabbing while playing, that number can surpass 800 MB. Is this a known issue? Most games may increase a bit in their memory footprint when repeatedly minimized, but certainly not by 60%.

Actually Yes, even by 100%.

That's not a memory leak, that's standard usage of memory nowadays.

Sins for example uses about 500mb on startup (early game), but gets up to about 1.5+ GB of ram in late games.
I'm sure with future beta versions the memory usage of Demigod will increase as well.

 

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Reply #2 September 4, 2008 9:06:16 PM
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Ok well, i just noticed you talked about alt-tabbing. I have no idea if there is actually an memory leak when alt-tabbing, guess i will have to test this as well.

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Reply #3 September 7, 2008 11:15:52 AM
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When I alttab and come back my game performance has halved.

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