memory leak

[Ibox]

<p>hey whats the deal with the memory leak when playing legends of norrath. it keeps crashing me and the error message says ran out of memory.</p>

[Lethe5683]

<p><span style="color: #800080;">The game is just one big memory leak. (talking eq2 not lon)</span></p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><span style="color: #800080;">The game is just one big memory leak. (talking eq2 not lon)</span></p></blockquote><p>Funny just finished a 8 hour run in the game and had no issues with memory leaks, yes I played LON during some down time also</p>

[Lethe5683]

<p><cite>Wingrider01 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><span style="color: #800080;">The game is just one big memory leak. (talking eq2 not lon)</span></p></blockquote><p>Funny just finished a 8 hour run in the game and had no issues with memory leaks, yes I played LON during some down time also</p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #800080;">What are your graphics set to?</span></p>

[bucketon]

<p>i used to cvrash at random intervals to, but i turned graphics down a bit and it stopped. It is kind of strange to me though, most games that cannot cope with the settings will get all slow and jerky, eq seems to run fine until it suddenly gives up on you.</p>

[Lethe5683]

<p>It's not the same for eq2 as other games.  In eq2 the game has lots of memory leaks that waste memory and the graphics use memory as well and the fact that eq2 can only use 2gb ram maximum makes it so that just having a bit higher of a graphic setting and thus using more memory can make the difference between running fine and crashed.</p>

[Amise]

<p><cite>Wingrider01 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><span style="color: #800080;">The game is just one big memory leak. (talking eq2 not lon)</span></p></blockquote><p>Funny just finished a 8 hour run in the game and had no issues with memory leaks, yes I played LON during some down time also</p></blockquote><p>Your ability to run the game without any problems does not mean no problems exist. Whether or not something affects you is mostly dependent on your hardware configuration and your game settings. Obviously there are many variations, so not everyone is equally affected by a particular issue. I would have thought that was just common sense.</p>

[Curs3]

<p><cite>Amise wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Wingrider01 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><span style="color: #800080;">The game is just one big memory leak. (talking eq2 not lon)</span></p></blockquote><p>Funny just finished a 8 hour run in the game and had no issues with memory leaks, yes I played LON during some down time also</p></blockquote><p>Your ability to run the game without any problems does not mean no problems exist. Whether or not something affects you is mostly dependent on your hardware configuration and your game settings. Obviously there are many variations, so not everyone is equally affected by a particular issue. I would have thought that was just common sense.</p></blockquote><p>it is common sense, just some people like to start crap or troll..</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>Curs3 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Amise wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Wingrider01 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><span style="color: #800080;">The game is just one big memory leak. (talking eq2 not lon)</span></p></blockquote><p>Funny just finished a 8 hour run in the game and had no issues with memory leaks, yes I played LON during some down time also</p></blockquote><p>Your ability to run the game without any problems does not mean no problems exist. Whether or not something affects you is mostly dependent on your hardware configuration and your game settings. Obviously there are many variations, so not everyone is equally affected by a particular issue. I would have thought that was just common sense.</p></blockquote><p>it is common sense, just some people like to start crap or troll..</p></blockquote><p>Works both ways for what you say. It is a lot easier to blame the visible application then to actually take the time out to diagnose and determine the true cause of the problem. drivers, background tasks, currently running applications. Norton, Mcaffee and a few other of the high profile AV"s have a major problem managing their memory usage and tend to take control of the availablememory and the next application that needs more crashes with a mem_alloc error. Lets add in malware, spyware, adware that historicly causes problems also. DXDiags and MSinfo's are requested for a reason.</p><p>Run the game at the highest video settings available, I turn off shadows out of preference</p><p>BTW memory leaks can be cause by other applications that are runnig, if there is an issue the first debug step to do is to restart the system under a clean boot configuration and run some bench mark diagnostics again the system and compare the results.</p>

[TSR-DanielH]

<p>I am not aware of any memory leaks in the game, currently.  The last one I was aware of was in Veeshan's Peak and that was corrected a while ago.</p><p>If you're getting memory related crashes then I would try closing any and all background applications as a first step.  You may also want to scale back your game settings a little bit and see if that effects how often you crash.</p>