Memory Leak?

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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%.

 

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Intel Core 2 Duo E6420

ATI Radeon HD 4850

nVIDIA nFORCE 650i Ultra mobo

4 GB DDR2-6400 RAM

Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

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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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.

 

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

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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