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Isn't that what the famous "Civ4 memory leak" was? Obviously, I don't know computers worth squat, I just inferred that from the numerous outraged reviews I encountered early on.
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No, that was just degrading performance as you keep playing. The OS cleans up all memory used by an application when it exits.Comment
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Civ4, yes, Civ2, no, didn't realize you only played civ2
Kuci, Civ4 doesn't terminate properly, at least for some people. For me, I play a lot of PTBS games (one turn at a time), and that means I run Warlords 3-5 times a day at least.
At any given time after my computer's been running for a day or so, I can open task manager and find 5 or 6 Civ4Warlords.exe running... and they do something, as it causes me periodically to be unable to run certain programs (Windows Media Player among them).
The programs don't use a ton of memory, but then I don't play large maps nor do I play for very long at any one time...<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.Comment
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Still, come to think of it, these problems do only occur after using Civ2 a number of times (wait, did you think I ran Civ4 on <500MB RAM?). I'll see if I can download those diagnostic tools tomorrow and track down the culprit; it's ten-thirty in MD, I'm a morning person, and I don't feel like floppy-shuffling right now. Thanks again.Comment
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Well you can manually kill those.Originally posted by snoopy369
Civ4, yes, Civ2, no, didn't realize you only played civ2
Kuci, Civ4 doesn't terminate properly, at least for some people. For me, I play a lot of PTBS games (one turn at a time), and that means I run Warlords 3-5 times a day at least.
At any given time after my computer's been running for a day or so, I can open task manager and find 5 or 6 Civ4Warlords.exe running... and they do something, as it causes me periodically to be unable to run certain programs (Windows Media Player among them).Comment
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Yes, as I do, but he's running Windows ME so it's hard to see these things
<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.Comment
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Yeah, pre-XP there was no built-in Windows feature to kill orphan processes (or whatever they're called). Maybe there was something from the command line, but even if there were I wouldn't want to inflict that on Elok.
"Just find the PID and kill -9 it."
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