Out of Memory Errors Persist...

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Hello,

I've had this game for a while and, just recently (after installing my game again without having touched it in over two years) I've been plagued by the infamous 'Out of Memory' errors. I'll post my information in the Debug.err below, but first I can't seem to figure out what's causing these errors. It doesn't matter what map I'm on, because after a certain amount of turns and saves, it crashes on my next save- this is highly frustrating for me.

Any help or insight would be appreciated, Debug below...

Debug Message:  Version v2.02 Twilight of the Arnor last updated on: Tue Dec  9 11:44:40 2008
Debug Message:  Checking DX Version.
Debug Message:  *********DXDiag info follows.*********
System Info
Time: 6/19/2009, 11:16:41
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Machine Name: DARKIEUS
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.090206-1234)
Languages: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.               
System Model: Dell XPS710                 
BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 1.4.1
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU           @ 2.66GHz (4 CPUs)
Physical Memory: 2558MB RAM
Page File: 775MB used, 5459MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS


Display Info
Display device 1:
Device Name: \\.\DISPLAY1
Card Name: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip Type: GeForce 8800 GTX
DAC Type: Integrated RAMDAC
Key Device: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0191&SUBSYS_039C10DE&REV_A2
Display Memory: 768.0 MB
Current Display Mode: 1680 x 1050 (32 bit) (59Hz)
Monitor Name: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor Max Resolution: 1600,1200
Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.0011.8250
Driver Date: 3/27/2009 10:03:00
DirectX Acceleration Enabled: Yes
 


Sound info
Sound device 1:
Description: SB X-Fi Audio [C8E0]
Default Sound Playback: Yes
Default Voice Playback: Yes
Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0005&SUBSYS_10031102&REV_00
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 100
Driver Name: ctaud2k.sys
Provider: Creative
Driver Version: 5.12.0001.1201
Driver Date: 6/18/2007 03:01:28
Type: WDM
Other Drivers:
Acceleration Level: 3
Cap Flags: 0
Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
 
Sound device 1:
Description: SigmaTel Audio
Default Sound Playback: No
Default Voice Playback: No
Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_8384&DEV_7618&SUBSYS_10280207&REV_1002
Manufacturer ID: 1
Product ID: 100
Driver Name: sthda.sys
Provider: SigmaTel
Driver Version: 5.10.5143.0000
Driver Date: 7/27/2006 04:24:28
Type: WDM
Other Drivers:
Acceleration Level: 3
Cap Flags: 0
Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
 


Debug Message:  *********END dxdiag info.*********
Debug Message:  Entering WinMain
Debug Message:  ******* Starting Game Shell *******
Debug Message:  Going Fullscreen
Debug Message:  Preparing to change display settings.
Debug Message:  Using hardware vertex processing
Debug Message:  Using multilsample setting: D3DMULTISAMPLE_4_SAMPLES
Debug Message:  Attempting to create D3DDevice at resolution 1680 x 1050, Windowed: 0, Multisample: 4
Debug Message:  Game Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Debug Message:  Running fullscreen.
Debug Message:  HAL (hw vp): NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
Debug Message:  D3DPRESENT_INTERVAL_DEFAULT
Debug Message:  Refresh rate: 59
Debug Message:  Bit Depth: 32 bit.
Debug Message:  *********Checking D3DDevice Caps***********************
Debug Message:  A full-color cursor is supported in hardware at high resolution modes.
Debug Message:  RGB in format 6:6:6, Masks reported as ff0000:ff00:ff
Debug Message:  Now Fullscreen
Debug Message:  Shell initialization complete
Debug Message:  GalCiv2 is activated.
Debug Message:  ***** Initializing Game *****
Debug Message:  Timer Frequency is 0 9e8d7270
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\./Data/ShipTemplates/\*.shipcfg
Debug Message:  Could not open reg key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE\Stardock\ObjectDesktop\DesktopX
Debug Message:  Initializing sound card.
Debug Message:  initailizing bink
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\DarkAvatar\Movies\techs\*.bik
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask Movies\techs\*.bik
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask Gfx\Tutorials\*.bik
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Sean Bourque\My Documents\My Games\GC2TwilightArnor\Gfx\Movies\*.bik
Debug Message:  No string tables in C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Twilight\Mods\Default/Data/*.str
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Twilight\Mods\Default\Movies\techs\*.bik
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Twilight\Mods\Default\Screens\*.dxpack
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Sean Bourque\My Documents\My Games\GC2TwilightArnor\sfx\*.wav
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Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Sean Bourque\My Documents\My Games\GC2TwilightArnor\Event Music\*.mp3
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Twilight\Mods\Default\sfx\*.wav
Debug Message:  Create setup screens.
Debug Message:  Clear galaxy settings.
Debug Message:  Clear influence.
Debug Message:  Clear up laws.
Debug Message:  Clear first time events.
Debug Message:  Clear wonders and trade goods.
Debug Message:  Clear sector mapper.
Debug Message:  Set mouse.
Debug Message:  Set update timer.
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask ./Data/*.xml
Debug Message:  Clear data definitions.
Debug Message:  Killing ship styles:
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Twilight\Mods\Default\Data\Techs\*.xml
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Twilight\Mods\Default\Techs\*.xml
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition./Data/English/\ShipStyles\*.xml
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\DarkAvatar./Data/\FleetFormations\*.fleet
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Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\DarkAvatar\Gfx\Planets\C0*.png
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Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Twilight\Mods\Default\Data\CustomRaces\*.xml
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Twilight\Mods\Default\Data\TerrainColorSchemes\*.xml
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Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Twilight\Mods\Default\Data\PlanetDescriptions\*.xml
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\./Data/ShipTemplates/\*.shipcfg
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Twilight\Mods\Default\Data\UPIssues\*.xml
Debug Message:  WARNING: Ship Style 'New Empire Style': Could not find template: 'TIEInterceptorto_t'
Debug Message:  WARNING: Ship Style 'New Empire Style': Could not find template: 'TIEFighterto_t'
Debug Message:  WARNING: Ship Style 'New Empire Style': Could not find template: 'TIEBomberto_t'
Debug Message:  WARNING: Ship Style 'New Empire Style': Could not find template: 'TIEInterceptorto_t'
Debug Message:  WARNING: Ship Style 'New Empire Style': Could not find template: 'Dominatorto_t'
Debug Message:  WARNING: Ship Style 'New Empire Style': Could not find template: 'ImperialGunshipto_t'
Debug Message:  WARNING: Ship Style 'New Empire Style': Could not find template: 'TIEBomberto_t'
Debug Message:  WARNING: Ship Style 'Tauri Style': Could not find template: 'GSGCFreighter_t'
Debug Message:  WARNING: Ship Style 'Tauri Style': Could not find template: 'GSGCTransport_t'
Debug Message:  WARNING: Ship Style 'Tauri Style': Could not find template: 'GSGCConstructor_t'
Debug Message:  WARNING: Ship Style 'Tauri Style': Could not find template: 'GSGCSpaceMiner_t'
Debug Message:  WARNING: Ship Style 'Tauri Style': Could not find template: 'GSGCSurveyShip_t'
Debug Message:  WARNING: Ship Style 'Tauri Style': Could not find template: 'GSGCSporeShip_t'
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Twilight\Mods\Default\Data\StarTypes\*.xml
Debug Message:  Reading Star Names
Debug Message:  Reading Star Names... Done
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Galactic Civilizations II - Ultimate Edition\Twilight\Mods\Default\Data\AsteroidFieldMiningBaseModules\*.xml
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask ./Data/English/Tutorials/*.xml
Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Sean Bourque\My Documents\My Games\GC2TwilightArnor\Backup\*.sav
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Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Sean Bourque\My Documents\My Games\GC2TwilightArnor\Metaverse\*.sav
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Debug Message:  No files found matching mask C:\Documents and Settings\Sean Bourque\My Documents\My Games\GC2TwilightArnor\Twilight of the Arnor\*.sav
Debug Message:  Loading save game C:\Documents and Settings\Sean Bourque\My Documents\My Games\GC2TwilightArnor\AutoSave.sav
Debug Message:  Killing threads.
Debug Message:  Kiling civs.
Debug Message:  Killing ships.
Debug Message:  Killing rallypoints.
Debug Message:  Killing misc objects.
Debug Message:  Killing stars.
Debug Message:  Killing anomalies.
Debug Message:  Killing asteroid fields.
Debug Message:  Killing asteroid field mining bases.
Debug Message:  Killing space resources.
Debug Message:  Killing ascension crystals.
Debug Message:  Killing colonies and planets.
Debug Message:  killing scenario.
Debug Message:  Clearing Turn Event Log
Debug Message:  Clear galaxy settings.
Debug Message:  Clear influence.
Debug Message:  Clear up laws.
Debug Message:  Clear first time events.
Debug Message:  Clear wonders and trade goods.
Debug Message:  Clear sector mapper.
Debug Message:  Loading Custom Map
Debug Message:  Loading Data Defs
Debug Message:  Clear data definitions.
Debug Message:  Killing ship styles:
Debug Message:  Loading TechDefs
Debug Message:  Max num techs: 617
Debug Message:  Loading ImprovementDB
Debug Message:  Loading Component Defs
Debug Message:  Loading ShipTypes
Debug Message:  Loading ShipTemplates
Debug Message:  Loading ParsedHardpoints
Debug Message:  Loading AnomalyTypes
Debug Message:  Loading RandomEvents
Debug Message:  Loading UPIssues
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Debug Message:  Loading InvasionTactics
Debug Message:  Loading SBmodules
Debug Message:  Loading PoliticalParties
Debug Message:  Loading Planet Types
Debug Message:  Loading Star Types
Debug Message:  Loading AFMBModules
Debug Message:  Loading ShipStyles
Debug Message:  Loading TechTrees
Debug Message:  Loading TechTreeDefs
Debug Message:  Loading Game
Debug Message:  Loading: Game mode is normal.
Debug Message:  Loading Galaxy
Debug Message:  Game started in version v2.02 Twilight of the Arnor
Debug Message:  Using mod Generic
Debug Message:  Mod description: Star Wars Vs. Star Trek Ultimate Edition
Debug Message:  Sectors across: 8 x 8
Debug Message:  Loading FOW Map
Debug Message:  Loading ZOC Map
Debug Message:  Loading Planets
Debug Message:  Loading Stars
Debug Message:  Loading Anomalies
Debug Message:  Loading Resources
Debug Message:  Loading AscensionCrystals
Debug Message:  Loading AsteroidFields
Debug Message:  Loading AFMiningBases
Debug Message:  Loading Civs
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Debug Message:  Loaded Civ Dominion who has intelligence 100
Debug Message:  Loaded Civ Klingon Empire who has intelligence 100
Debug Message:  Loaded Civ Ferengi who has intelligence 95
Debug Message:  Loaded Civ Romulan Empire who has intelligence 100
Debug Message:  Loaded Civ Vulcan who has intelligence 95
Debug Message:  Loading player civ Paragoth Moon
Debug Message:  Loaded Civ Pirates who has intelligence 1
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Debug Message:  Loading RallyPoints
Debug Message:  Loading Ships
Debug Message:  Loading Fleets
Debug Message:  Loading Turn Event Log
Debug Message:  Loading Treaties
Debug Message:  Loading ENDGALAXYDATA
Debug Message:  Updating ZOC.
Debug Message:  UIBeginGame called with g_ulLocalPlayerID = 7
Debug Message:  Cheat Keys are enabled.
Debug Message:  UIBeginGameHelper: New Game Started
Debug Message:  UIBeginGameHelper: Mods are Enabled
Debug Message:  Random Event: End
Debug Message:  First contact: Ferengi Scout Ship M0 v1 73 at position 4750.000000,3750.000000 rotation 0.000000
Debug Message:  About to auto save.
Debug Message:  Save Game: About to save
Debug Message:  Saving game C:\Documents and Settings\Sean Bourque\My Documents\My Games\GC2TwilightArnor\AutoSave.tmp
Debug Message:  Num Sectors Across: 8
Debug Message:  Saving: Game mode is normal.
Debug Message:  Number of ships: 76, Number of Fleets: 0
Debug Message:  Save game finished.
Debug Message:  Finished auto save.
Debug Message:  Eval
Debug Message:  Eval
Debug Message:  Eval
Debug Message:  Random Event: End
Debug Message:  About to auto save.
Debug Message:  Save Game: About to save
Debug Message:  Saving game C:\Documents and Settings\Sean Bourque\My Documents\My Games\GC2TwilightArnor\AutoSave.tmp
Debug Message:  Num Sectors Across: 8
Debug Message:  Saving: Game mode is normal.
Debug Message:  Number of ships: 79, Number of Fleets: 0
Debug Message:  Error allocating memory.
ASSERT ERROR in file H:\Projects\Twilight\LibKumquat\Source\memman.cpp at line 1419.
ASSERT ERROR in file H:\Projects\Twilight\LibKumquat\Source\memman.cpp at line 961.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Rather than spam staff with another Topic on the same subject I want to bring to your attention that I am also suffering this effect. Here is a screen shot of what appears when my game tries to autosave.

(EDIT: My photobucket account isn't uploading. No screenshot)

I have made some head way in assuming that Autosaving is the problem behind this. Is it that our games are too big in kb that the game cannot allow them to expand? If so does that mean we cannot continue our game?

My game save file is currently around the 13,000kb.

Game Description:
I am playing on a Gigantic map with 8 races and minor race. 2 extra minor races established themselves making 10 minor races. Everything is abundant (appart from habitable planets with is just common) and accension victory is turned off. I'm playing a custom race with 2 extra customs, this is a metaverse game. Currently 5 major and 1 minor race remain and everyone is at wars so ships are been created at a rapid pace.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Hm... only an idea of me... but I guess the problem is in Your mod.

A year ago or so, I had the same problem and the Error log / Debug Info, especially the last four lines,
were similiar to yours.

In my case, the problem was, that I had too much and too big ship textures in my mod.
Countless textures with a size of 1024 x 1024 pxs need very much of memory.
In 'my' mod were many ships from different star trek and star wars mod files out of the library, and other
sources.


After I reduced the texture sizes the 'out of memory' prob was gone. BTW I also deleted the
HRG mod.

Hope this can help You.

Offworld Trading Company
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I had this problem in the stock DA game and Kryo suggested moving the slider for planet textures all the way to the right.  I've had no more memory crashes since doing that.

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

In my case, the problem was, that I had too much and too big ship textures in my mod.
Countless textures with a size of 1024 x 1024 pxs need very much of memory.
In 'my' mod were many ships from different star trek and star wars mod files out of the library, and other
sources.


After I reduced the texture sizes the 'out of memory' prob was gone. BTW I also deleted the
HRG mod.

sorry to burst your bubble the only modifications I have are custom races... And it was only on that one game, every other game I've run up till now has been near perfect.

I had this problem in the stock DA game and Kryo suggested moving the slider for planet textures all the way to the right. I've had no more memory crashes since doing that.

Same here, except it hasn't helped. I have all textures turned right down to bare minimum.

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I have made some head way in assuming that Autosaving is the problem behind this. Is it that our games are too big in kb that the game cannot allow them to expand? If so does that mean we cannot continue our game?

Extremely large and "dense" (huge numbers of planets and ships) games consume a lot of memory. If there is not enough available to complete the save process when that time comes, the save is going to be corrupted once the game hits the 32-bit 2GB ceiling. Nothing can salvage that save; since the game was interrupted midway through writing it, it's not even complete.

If you're running into OOM errors and you're not using any mods or additions to the game at all on TA, there's not really much else to do but try dialing the planet density down a notch or reducing the amount of stuff on the map by other means.

Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I guess i'm restricted from playing Gigantic maps then. Well I can't really complain I was on my 7th year when it cut out so the score would have been going down.

Thanx for updating us on that Kryo. Question though, If you PC has a stronger gaming capacity (Aka it's got more features, more up to date hardware and driver software) would the game have a larger memory capacity?

Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

If you PC has a stronger gaming capacity (Aka it's got more features, more up to date hardware and driver software) would the game have a larger memory capacity?

If there is not enough available to complete the save process when that time comes, the save is going to be corrupted once the game hits the 32-bit 2GB ceiling.

The problem is the 2GB limit for 32 bit Windows applications.  I expect even if you where running the game on 64bit Vista a 64bit CPU you would still hit this limit as GalCivII ToA is a 32bit application.

Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

If you're running into OOM errors and you're not using any mods or additions to the game at all on TA, there's not really much else to do but try dialing the planet density down a notch or reducing the amount of stuff on the map by other means.

     I am starting to run out of memory too. Could this be due to the number of ships in my ship files folder? This happens when I make a ship design or build ships from my 8 planets. How about an old video card, I have ATI X1550. Will also check my planet density.

Saint Mina of Ophelia VII of Order of the Bloody Rose of Orders Militant of Adepta Sororitas

Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

ok, so if i'm understanding this correctly. it is impossible to play this game with everything turned up? i cant figure out why a game would be released with such a huge design flaw.

Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I also seem to have run into OOM crashes again.  Turning down most of the non-ship textures to zip seems to have bought me a few dozen turns, but that's it.

Nuts.  I sure seem to recall reading folk tell of epic games on max settings.  I have ships now with attack and defense factors over 300 and am in a position to really turn the corner in my first gigantic Suicidal game ... and may not be able to finish it.

What game settings would let me complete a long DA game?  Dail down from Gigantic?  Fewer AIS?  Fewer Minor races?

Help!

Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

  When I build a ship or buy a ship and get into a attack then the turn is over and it saves that turn that is when I get my OoM crashes.

Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I'm beginning to wonder it the OOM crashes might be due to a "memory leak" or some such similar bug, perhaps inadvertently created by a patch.

IIRC, Birth of the Federation suffered from a bug of that sort, as have a few other games.  In BOTF, the memory leak bug would cripple or crash the game sometime around turn 150 on the greatest settings.  With the much greater memory in today's machines (2 gig RAM versus some # meg in 1999), it might simply take longer for it to bring the game down.  In some memory leak crippled games, frequent saving and then, when it crashed, starting from the previous save would buy a player a bit more time - just as I am experiencing here.

Can the Devs or anyone rule out a memory leak as the cause of the OOM crashes? 

Reply #13 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

There are not any currently known memory leak issues that I'm aware of.

Reply #14 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Okay - but do note that the symptoms seem to be similar.  I am not a code guy though, so I do not know how one would determine if there was (or was not) such a bug.  All I know is that I keep having these "out of memory" crashes on both my computers in different games when I finally get to the late mid-game with gigantic maxed-out galaxies.

Last night, one major race surrendered to me (I was not at war with them) and the game crashed while trying to save.  I restarted, loaded, and now they surrender to my arch rivals!  Twice since, I have reloaded in an effort to get them to surrender to me as they originally did, but no luck.  Without that crash, I would have gained their 30-ish planets instead of the race that is ahead of me already in stats.  Grrrrr!

Reply #15 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

This is getting absurd.

I have to save multiple times per turn now, and it's a near-miracle to advance a turn.

Have players actually played deep into a gigantic everything-abundant game?

All of the 9 major races are still there as are 2 of the minor races.  The top several races have pretty much researched everything, and the factors on the ships are huge.  Most of the mine resources are unmined now.  I have two that I am still guarding hard with fleets - a Green and a Red.  I abandoned a Purple one or two, as the research job was about done.

It's a great game.  It really is, but I may just have to throw up my hands and go play some other game I can actually have some chance to finish.  Maybe go back to Crysis, or Total War, or something.

Reply #16 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I got to admit, I'm beginning to turn away from Galciv2 because of this pretty serious error (Just after i'd gotten back into it too). You get really into a game and about half way through it totally corrupts on you and you feel so disappointed that you don't want to do it all over again.

I'm finding myself becoming more addicted to Age of Empires and call to power 2 rather than galciv2 which is quiet sad :(.

 

Is there anything at all that can be done to fix this? because at this rate i can't see any point in atempting to play. no offence it'sa a great game but I keep getting let down with this flaw. I tried a second map which crashed after the 4th year.

Reply #17 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

There are not any currently known memory leak issues that I'm aware of.

It may not be a leak. It may be that the game simply uses too many resources, what with a virtually unlimited amount of ships and textures and such. On max-everything and late in the game, the game simply gets overwhelmed.

Reply #18 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

At this point in my game, I would be willing to turn down anything and everything to try to get it to a finish.

I guess what I'll try next is exactly that.  I have already zeroed the planet textrures and some display values.  I think that tonight I will zero-out just about everything else that I can find on the set-up page.

Absent that, can a Dev or Old Hand tell me what size galaxy I could finish a lonnng game in?  Or, is it some number of players I have to limit a game to?

I am confident that I can win this Suicidal game I'm on and it's frustrating as all hell!

Reply #19 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

As I have reported earlier, when I play in a gigantic universe with just AI opponents, later in the game when there are many, many ships, I lose my blue icons for new ships at the beginning of the turn.  I can't launch new ships unless I go from planet to planet and launch them one by one.  If I save, quit, and reload, I usually will be ok for several turns before the same thing happens.  I assume this is memory related.  BTW I am running 3gb on Vista.

Several people have reported the same thing.  I have never been able to get a dev to comment despite numerous tries both by email and reporting it on forums.

Reply #20 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I went to the Options page and dialed back to zero all the choices for textures and other memory elements not related to actual game play.  Upon rebooting the game, it seemed to help.  At least, it got me through many more turns w/o more crashes.  I still have not completed that game, but I am hopeful.  It's not nearly as pretty as it was, but I can live with that.

Reply #21 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

This issue is on another thread. Can somebody at Stardock please give word on weather or not they are working the issue? Does this mean I paid fourty bucks for a pretty light show with no conclusion?

I'm starting to be annoyed.

Reply #22 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I tried to make a kinda post letter about this a little subjects down but stardock doesnt seem interested in its game anymore, maybe we should spam post all over stardock and see if someone actually cares.

Reply #23 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting LTjim, reply 15
This is getting absurd.

I have to save multiple times per turn now, and it's a near-miracle to advance a turn.

Have players actually played deep into a gigantic everything-abundant game?

All of the 9 major races are still there as are 2 of the minor races.  The top several races have pretty much researched everything, and the factors on the ships are huge.  Most of the mine resources are unmined now.  I have two that I am still guarding hard with fleets - a Green and a Red.  I abandoned a Purple one or two, as the research job was about done.

It's a great game.  It really is, but I may just have to throw up my hands and go play some other game I can actually have some chance to finish.  Maybe go back to Crysis, or Total War, or something.

 

Tried playing an immense game. I've got crashes regularly. I save all of the time. Judging by task manager, the game crashes when it clears around maybe 2.2 GB of RAM.

 

System:

Operating System: Windows Vista™ Ultimate (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2 (6002.lh_sp2rtm.090410-1830)
Languages: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: X48-DQ6
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q6600  @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.6GHz
Physical Memory: 4094MB RAM
Page File: 2239MB used, 6156MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows

 

Note CPU passed CPU stability test and works fine for other games for 3.6 Ghz overclock (originally 2.4 Ghz). Problems persist without OC.

 

Display Info
Display device 1:
Device Name: \\.\DISPLAY1
Card Name: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series  
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Chip Type: ATI display adapter (0x9460)
DAC Type: Internal DAC(400MHz)
Key Device: Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_9460&SUBSYS_80301462&REV_00
Display Memory: 2809 MB
Current Display Mode: 1680 x 1050 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor Name: Generic PnP Monitor
Monitor Max Resolution:
Driver Name: atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll
Driver Version: 8.14.0010.0678
Driver Date: 7/2/2009 12:54:53
DirectX Acceleration Enabled: Yes

As you can see driver is the latest too.

 

Reply #24 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting brycej, reply 19
As I have reported earlier, when I play in a gigantic universe with just AI opponents, later in the game when there are many, many ships, I lose my blue icons for new ships at the beginning of the turn.  I can't launch new ships unless I go from planet to planet and launch them one by one.  If I save, quit, and reload, I usually will be ok for several turns before the same thing happens.  I assume this is memory related.  BTW I am running 3gb on Vista.

Several people have reported the same thing.  I have never been able to get a dev to comment despite numerous tries both by email and reporting it on forums.

 

Game works stably for me. Not sure about the launching issue.

 

Are you actually running 4Gb on an x86 system? That can cause stability problems.

Reply #25 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Im running 8 GB on a 64x system so I doubt that is the issue here. :annoyed: