Is it me or does Civ4 still have bad memory leak problems?

[mgdpublic]

I put this in general because I'm looking for feedback, not advice.

While the patch was a big improvement I still can't play on a standard map with 9 civs when the map starts to get uncovered. And when I end the game my computer essentially needs rebooting to get up to speed. Is this a recognized issue?

[LordShiva]

My PoS computer needs a few minutes to unload it from memory, but I definitely don't need to reboot after I quit.

In fact, the poor laptop's been on now for weeks without rebooting.

[Willem]

I start getting lag and jerkiness later in the game, but I don't have to reboot my machine to clear it up. Just quitting to desktop and restarting the game is good enough. It's much better than it used to be however.

[solo]

Sometimes my computer seems to hang, but if I wait a for a minute or so, things come back to life. This usually happens after a trade for a map of a large portion of the world I have not seen yet. This is with 1 gigabyte of RAM, too.

[TheArsenal]

I play on a slightly modified Huge Map (changed in the XML files from 32x20 to 40x25) with all Civs in play. I only have serious slow downs on the very first turn of the game or if I modify some of the game parameters (more commonly known as "cheat") in the middle of the game then hit the next turn bar. Those turns take forever. The hang up I used to get from map trading was solved by the last patch.

[Crossfire]

I always have to reboot after leaving civ after a long session deep into a game. I suppose if I was willing to wait 5 minutes for Windows to reshuffle everything it eventually might, but I never seem to get decent performance afterwards without a reboot.

[MasterDave]

Originally posted by solo
Sometimes my computer seems to hang, but if I wait a for a minute or so, things come back to life. This usually happens after a trade for a map of a large portion of the world I have not seen yet. This is with 1 gigabyte of RAM, too.

I have 4 GB of RAM and I also get a fifteen-twenty second pause when trading maps. That behavior was happening since version 1.09. I am guessing that it is caused by a huge amount of graphical information (the land, animations, clouds, etc.) being added to the main interface view all at once.

[Mace]

Originally posted by MasterDave


I have 4 GB of RAM and I also get a fifteen-twenty second pause when trading maps. That behavior was happening since version 1.09. I am guessing that it is caused by a huge amount of graphical information (the land, animations, clouds, etc.) being added to the main interface view all at once.

That might also be cpu and vid dependent, too.--
because I don't notice that long of a pause on my system when doing a big-reveal map trade. I "only" have 2 gigs of ram, too.

[MasterDave]

Originally posted by Mace


That might also be cpu and vid dependent, too.--
because I don't notice that long of a pause on my system when doing a big-reveal map trade. I "only" have 2 gigs of ram, too.

My CPU and Vid are first-generation (I do not want to say what they are lest I be accused of bragging), so I do not think that it is a hardware issue. Civ runs great on my rig even on huge maps, and the only hiccups are when I trade maps.