[T:V] Is there a memory leak?

Anyone else having a problem where after playing T:V retail your PC is extremely sluggish until reboot?

Normally under XP this isn't such a big deal, and clears up within 30 seconds after exiting a program. I can let the PC sit idle for 5 minutes and still be bogged down until a reboot.

Example: Opening internet explorer, normally the window pops up loaded instantly. After a T:V session a blank window opens, the PC stalls for a few second, then the page loads.

Specs: XP 2700+ (2.16 ghz), 768 DDR.

Definitely.

I quit playing SP after like 4 hours. And my whole system was SUPER slow.

I ended up hitting the restart button, and it even hung on my mobo splash screen :|

I hit the power off button, came back 5 minutes later, and it was all good again.

yes its quite sluggish afterwards for me too.

p4 3.0 Northwood 512 PC4000 Mushkin

the program slowly unloads from memory once your out of the game.

Run the game exit and then ctrl alt del to watch it unload.
Its the same with ut2k4 so I assume its just an engine thing...

You can allways kill it after exiting, i wish it did this automaticly.

Yup.

the program slowly unloads from memory once your out of the game.

Run the game exit and then ctrl alt del to watch it unload.
Its the same with ut2k4 so I assume its just an engine thing...

You can allways kill it after exiting, i wish it did this automaticly.

The thing is the performance doesn't return. Sounds like a memory leak to me, something isn't being released, although task manager shows cpu and memory usage at idle levels.

What's happening is as you access programs you haven't accessed in a while, it's pulling the (virtual) memory they reside in off of the disc cache which is extremely slow.

But any memory an application like T:V takes is given back to the system when it is closed. A leak doesn't mean it's lost forever, it just means it still belongs to that application but that application has no way of every using it again.

Definitely.

I ended up hitting the restart button, and it even hung on my mobo splash screen :|

I hit the power off button, came back 5 minutes later, and it was all good again.
wow that's 100% your computer overheating and is impossible for it to be related to T:V.
In my experience T:V has no memory leak and runs very impressive for the level of content it displays at any one time. I start, exit and restart T:V many many times before a restart and it runs consistantly the same every time (I always play with stat fps).

Windows XP no SP
amd athlon xp2500+
asus a7n8x deluxe
1024 corsair pc2700 <--- u guys probably have 512
9600pro

Maybe try learning what a memory leak is before posting a thread about it?

I'm not seeing this...and I have 58 processes running in the background. I did reboot my Windows box for the first time in about a month yesterday, but that was because I was cleaning off some games and apps I hadn't played in a while, doing updates, etc.

As far as I can tell the memory is released fairly quickly after close, I get about a 5 second slow refresh of the desktop then I'm good to go. Then again, I'm not running XP...maybe thats why. Been playing every day so if there was a memory leak I'm thinking I would have noticed almost right away (I keep a fairly close watch on that system).

Win2k Server, P4 1.6 (oc'd), 1Gb RAM and way to much software :P
I have my startup very carefully edited, runs 54 processes base, with about 6-10 more depending on how many browsers/editors/dev IDE's/etc I was working on.

my T:V has gone from using ~200 physical and ~300 virtual to more than 350/750 after playing for a while.

so yeah, I'd guess there's a memory leak.

the program slowly unloads from memory once your out of the game.

Run the game exit and then ctrl alt del to watch it unload.
Its the same with ut2k4 so I assume its just an engine thing...

You can allways kill it after exiting, i wish it did this automaticly.
I never had this problem with ut2k4.

For me, the first map runs great, but every map after the first gets laggier and laggier.

AthlonXP (Palomino) 1800 1.53 GHz, Radeon 9500 Pro, 512MB RAM

Video settings are all low/off so I can run at 1024x768 with the fogging distance at max.